Plight of the Kurds

Title

Plight of the Kurds

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop; Speech

TX Date

17 Jan 1992

Year of production

1992

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Duration

00:03:52

Description

Stephanie West reports on the poor conditions and oppression facing the Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan. Women and children weep over their treatment by Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein. Includes interviews with human rights campaigner Alexander von Sternberg(?) and leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Jalal Talabani.

Contributors

Stephanie West; Alexander von Sternberg(?); Jalal Talabani

Keywords

Human rights violations; UN; Oppression; Living conditions; Missing persons; Ethnic groups; Jeffrey Archer; Iraq; Saddam Hussein; Kurds; Kurdistan; Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

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