The Kurds a Nation Denied by David McDowall
Foreword by John Simpson Minority Rights Group is an international, non-governmental organization whose aims are to secure justice for minority (and non-dominant majority) groups suffering discrimination by: 1. Researching and publishing the facts as widely as possible to raise public knowledge and awareness of minority issues worldwide. 2. Advocating on all aspects of human rights of minorities to aid the prevention of dangerous and destructive conflicts. 3. Educating through its schools programme on issues relating to prejudice, discrimination and group conflicts. If you would like to know more about the work of the Minority Rights Group, please contact Alan Phillips (Director), MRG, 379 Brixton Road, London SW9 7DE, United Kingdom.
Minority Rights Publications is a new series of books from the Minority Rights Group. Through the series, we aim to make available to a wide audience reliable data on, and objective analyses of, specific minority issues. The series draws on the expertise and authority built up by the Minority Rights Group over two decades of publishing. Further details on MRG's highly acclaimed series of reports can be found at the end of this book. Other titles in the book series are: The Balkans: Minorities and States in Conflict by Hugh Poulton (1991) Armenia and Karabagh: The Struggle for Unity Edited by Christopher J. Walker (1991) The Kurds: A Nation Denied by David McDowall
Minority Rights Group 1992 First published in Great Britain in 1992 by Minority Rights Publications 379 Brixton Road London SW9 7DE All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any other means with¬out the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Please direct all enquiries to the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1 873194 15 3 paper ISBN 1 873194 30 7 hardback Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data CIP Data available from the Library of Congress Designed and typeset by Brixton Graphics Printed and bound by Billing and Sons Ltd Cover photo of Kurdish Refugees after battle of Kirkuk, March 1991 Don McCullin/Magnum Photos Ltd |