UK aid for Kurdish refugees

Title

UK aid for Kurdish refugees

Genre

Interview

TX Date

4 Apr 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:02:21

Description

Paul Rowley interviews Foreign Office minister Douglas Hogg on what the Government is going to do to help the Kurdish people in northern Iraq that are being persecuted by Saddam Hussein. Military assistance is not an option despite Western countries having encouraged the Kurds to rebel.

Contributors

Paul Rowley; Douglas Hogg

Keywords

Military affairs; UN; Humanitarian assistance; Ethnic groups; Turkey; Foreign aid; Persecution; Political refugees; Iraq; Saddam Hussein; Kurds

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