Report by Owen Bowcott from the Guardian UK:
Families seek redress for Turkish incursions
Raids on Kurds blamed for deaths and damage in Iraq
British lawyers take cases to human rights court
British lawyers are taking Turkey to the European court of human rights in pursuit of compensation for deaths and damage allegedly inflicted by repeated bombardments of northern [...]
Kurdish Media reports on recent statements from members of Iraqi Parliament:
London (KurdishMedia.com) 05 June 2008: As the result of the Turkish and Iranian bombardments for the last two years, 450 southern Kurdish families have been displaced, two MP’s of the Kurdistan bloc in the Iraqi Assembly stated in a press conference in Baghdad. It was [...]
From the Agence France-Presse (AFP):
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — Iranian shelling of five villages in Iraqi Kurdistan close to the border wounded at least two civilians Wednesday, a security official told AFP.
The pre-dawn bombardment of the villages near the town of Sayed Sadiq lasted two hours, said General Jabari Yawar, a spokesman for the peshmerga, the [...]
Alliance for Kurdish Rights (AKR) is concerned for the well-being and safety of civilians in the Kurdistan Federal Region in Iraq after months of heavy bombardments by the Turkish and Iranian militaries. On May 4th, 2008, the LA Times reported the destruction of another border village town, Rezga, as a result of cross-border airstrikes and [...]
Source: AFP
Medics in Iraqi Kurdistan said on Saturday that they had seen a surge in violence against women in May, with both so-called “honour” killings and female suicides on the increase.
“At least 14 women died in the first 10 days of May alone,” a doctor told AFP in the region’s second largest city of Sulaimaniyah.
“Seven [...]
From Reporters Without Borders…
Reporters Without Borders condemns the 11 April decision of a criminal court in Sanandaj, in Iran’s northwestern Kurdish region, to close the Kurdish-language daily [Rojhelat] for good on the grounds that it had received money from abroad. The court took the position that it broke the law by selling copies across the [...]
This is an interesting excerpt from a documentary which starts by detailing the Kurdish crisis within Iraq, when Saddam was still its dictator, and then goes on to describe the history of the Kurds.
Note: The beginning features disturbing images of war crimes.
