Plight of the Kurds

Title

Plight of the Kurds

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

TX Date

19 Jan 1992

Year of production

1992

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Duration

00:07:44

Description

Stephanie West reports on the plight of the Kurds, having just returned from northern Iraq. The people have been oppressed and persecuted by Saddam Hussein and he has imposed economic sanctions following their resistance in the Gulf War. They want independence from Saddam. Includes interview with a Kurdish family, who were forced to flee to the mountains last winter; vox pop with refugee camp residents; Bizani(?) tribal people bemoaning men and boys taken by Saddam Hussein and executed; local doctor on the economic sanctions and shortages at the hospital; head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party on the political situation; Alexander Von Sternberg(?), human rights campaigner says Saddam’s regime must be brought down. On Steve Jones show.

Contributors

Stephanie West; Steve Jones; Alexander von Sternberg(?)

Keywords

Politics; Health services; Political systems; Economic sanctions; Oppression; Refugees; Persecution; Iraq; Gulf War (1990-1991); Saddam Hussein; Kurds

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