Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

even the American President George Bush mentioned
them in one of his speeches by saying: “One can not
forget the picture of that Kurdish woman hugging her
child to protect him from the effect of the chemical
bombs…” So, the American President asked the wounded
Kurdish people to take their revenge and attack the
positions of the Iraqi regime in Kurdistan. Hearing such
words, the Kurdish people attacked in a flash, including
even those half a million Kurds armed by the Iraqi regime
itself, and revenge was taken from the Iraqi forces by
driving them out of Kurdistan.. However, some of the
Kurds wanted to follow up this operation and go as far
as south of Iraq to liberate the Arabs also, especially the
Shiites of the south, but such a thing was not included in
the American plans and the American authorities could
not tolerate the possibility of the Shiites taking the hold
on the power in Iraq because that would have led to an
alliance between them and the Iranian regime, which
was the main reason for the west’s deals throughout the
eight years of the Iraq-Iran war to prevent such a thing
from happening. Thus the Americans gave the green
light to Saddam Hussein to strike at the Kurdish advance
to the Arabic south. So, he sent his planes carrying a
smoke or a smoke like dust, and chemical bombs smoke…
When such bombs were thrown towards Kurdistan, the
Kurdish people left their areas and took refuge in the
mountains on the Iranian and Turkish borders in a way
that it was called the largest and quickest exodus in the
history… One of the Turkish officials was quoted to say
that he has previously seen the exodus of thousands of
people, but he has never seen a whole people’s exodus
from their land and country.
During the two months of March and April 1991, the
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