The dream that is too tough to die: persecuted, deceived and betrayed, the Kurds have never lost their thirst for freedom. (After the War)

U.S. News & World Report | April 15, 1991| | Copyright

This is not the first time the Kurds have seen their dreams of freedom evaporate like a desert mirage. Nor is it the first time the United States has encouraged these tribal mountain people to rebel, then abandoned them. In 1923, the Allied nations from World War I reneged on a promise to grant the Kurds their own state. In the early 1930s, Britain granted large chunks of oil-rich Kurdistan to the new nation of Iraq in order to ensure that its latest colonial creation would prosper. In 1970, Iraq agreed to grant the Kurds autonomy, then tossed the agreement into the ...

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