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Barzani plea for UN to secure Kurdish peace
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The Independent - London
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June 7, 1994
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HIS DREAM of a united Kurdish people in tatters after months of
fighting in northern Iraq, the veteran Kurdish leader, Massoud
Barzani, yesterday said his bitter sense of failure had even led
him to consider calling for a United Nations force to keep the
peace.
Even though fighting with his rival, Jalal Talabani, stopped on
Friday, troops have pulled back and a lasting ceasefire has taken
hold, Mr Barzani told reporters in his mountain resort headquarters
of Salahuddin that the basic problem was a lack of trust between
the two main Kurdish guerrilla factions after "fighting, looting,
ransacking and killing of prisoners".
Talks with Mr Talabani on normalisation would continue, he said,
but ...