| Description | Folder of presscuttings, telex reports and digest bulletins relating to Kurdish opposition activities between 1987 and 1989. These include large newspaper articles on the forced resettlement of Kurds from their mountain villages to the plains, cuttings on the assassination of Iranian Kurd leader Dr Abdorrahman Qassemlou in July 1989, Issue No.1 (January 1989) of a 16-page bulletin 'The Kurdish Focus. Published by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)', reports of Saddam Hussein's visits to Kurdish regions in northern Iraq, a Baghad Observer report on the 16th anniversary of the Autonomy Law in Kurdistan (12 March 1990), an 8-page booklet issued by the Iraqi Press Office in London entitled 'The Truth about Kurds in Iraq' (July 1989), discussion of UK and international responses to Iraqi treatment of the Kurds, three excerpts from The Observer (7, 14 and 28 May 1989)- including two articles by Helga Graham - stapled together with a PUK statement and copies of Iraqi forms regarding depopulation of the Kurdish settlements, an appeal to the world by Jalal Talabani, leader of the Iraqi Kurds (1 June 1989), reports of Kurdish refugees crossing the borders into Turkey and Iran, an interview in 'Jeune Afrique' with Iraqi defector Colonel Nabard Jaff who discusses repression of the Kurds and the chemical attack on Halabja, two press releases from April 1988, one from the PUK detailing recent Iraqi crimes against the Kurds and another from the London Iraqi Press Office blaming the Iranians for the chemical attack on Halabja, Amnesty International bulletins on human rights abuses in Iraq, and a map of Iraq showing the location of the Kurdish Democratic Party and PUK headquarters. |