Kurdistan on Fire - I

Kurdistan on Fire - I

Kurdish Reliff Aid

Compte d’auteur

Two hours north-west of Sulaymaniyah on the way to the Iranian border, you pass the last Iraqi army post. From there on. vou are in a sort of Kurdish Wild West, a barren country, where villages and springs are few and far between. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) has its own checkpoint here, in the “Liberated Zone.” Since 1933 this has been the refuge of the armed opposition groups to the Khomeini regime, from here they conduct their operations with Baghdad's blessing.
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