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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RMSTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi
, charging that,M'Bad .fiùsifiéd1iis
address in his first election conte~t'
almost a quarter century ago. ,
Acr'ording to the B~Cs Panora-
. ma program, Mr. Mijorran for à
. seat.in the LambethJOCâlcouncil in
, 1968 from an addrè'silfn Templarj,
Street in that borough, although a:
woman who lived there told the,:
program that he was not a resident';
there at the time. .
"I was in fact living in the area,
directly opposite her at the time,
: and that fully meets the qualifica-
, tion," Mr. Major said on Tuesday.
Norman Tebbit, one of Mrs.
Thatcher's closest allies in the Con- '
servative Party's right wing, wrote,
, in the Evening Standard newspaper
.Tuesday that much of the gripmg
, about Mr. Majorhad come from a
tiny group of ultrarightists within
the party"some of them still sore at
him for replacing her.
To th~m, defeat.for the govern-
:ment in the next election was preferab~eto
compromise with the idea
'of "a disastrouf and unworkable
semi-socialist Euro superstate,': he,
wrote, addiJ;lg that they were,
,wrong.
'
,..llndt;~pre~sure to show~eci~ive~
ness in advance of tQegeneral elec~,', :\'errand ,of France agreed wi~h Mr;
tion he has to call before July 1992;'
Mr. Major then came under pres-
Major that if it took troops to maki:
,(he zones safe, the British and
'sure .011the issue of the Kurd$J'-~~ 't:rench wl)uld provide them, BritpublIc
outrage mounted over seem' "iShofficials said.
mg indifference in Washington anil ',';:Mr. Major's government then
els,ewhereto what Mr. Hussein wa~ 'Ibbbied hard for support for. thé
j~?i,iigto them for rising up againsiproposal inWashington and at th~
~lUm.
.... "We always thought that it miglll
, United Nations last week, though it
began calling the refugee security
:take longer for the U.S. position "ta zones "safe havens" rather than en~
~Comearound," one aide said. "We ,claves on advice from the Foreign
(t:lt we needed to get the EC on OUI Office, which saw possible diplo-'
.ide first, and that if we did then 'ma tic complications.
:the Erp.nchcould help atthe Unit~d ~u.t.,the signals from the, 8\15;;
'We had had some very harrowing
television pictures, which always affect
'.'public opinion.'
An aide to Prime Minister John Major
'Nations Security Couneilto get ap. administration were mixed,British
, proval for it." ' officials said, with Mr. Bush insist-
The EC summit meeting in Luxj ing publicly that U.S. forces were,
embourgendorsed his surprise prü1 going home, not getting bogged:
posal on April 8 for enclaves inside down in a murky civil war, while .
lraq,.and President Franç9ÎS N;,J his aOpswould establish security for,
camps for the refugees in northern "
Iraq, near the Turkish border. .
Mr. Major was beaming;
Wednesday as he' took credit for,
the idea. "This is the most wideranging
proposal anybody has pro-
.duced." he said. .
'
Iraqi stability
'may hinge Qß
Kurdproblem'
'By Victor Mallet, Middle East Correspondent, in London
THE DECISION to send US, Few' ofthem,
:British and French troops tq the killings of recent days, the)
eStablish and defend Kurdis~ gassing of Kurds at HaIabja inj
refugee camps in northern Iraq 1988 and the destruction of
raises the question of how long 4,000 Kurdish villages on Mr;
the Kurds will need protection Saddam's orders, will ever be:
from their own government. : persuaded to accept at face;
The. answer, according to value' Mr Saddam's periodic
'Kurdish refugees and exiles, is offers of amnesty to Kurdish;
;that the United Nations or the refugees. • ,
western powers will have to, Kurds say that even if M;t;;
~afeguard Iraq's 4m Kurds a~ Saddam is removed, Aralî
least until President Saddam nationalist and anti-Kurdish'
)russein is overthrown, and 'sentiments fostered by the;
',possiblylonger.
• Iraqi authorities may causf:<
, Kurdish groups yester,day' further misery for the KurdisJ1;i
;welcomed US President George people.
;aush's announcement on the; "We don't want to be,
deployment of troops to protect reduced to a refugee popula;'
Kurdish zones in northern t.on in a number of C$U1lPS,"
Iraq, but they emphasised that said Dr Kamal Mirawdeli,
the move responded to urgent director of the Kurdish Information
and Educational Proj-
'humanitarian needs without
providing a political solution to ect in London.
the Kurdish problem.
"But even if the ShIa come
. Most Iraqi Kurds, including to power, or another government
- a oro-Saudi ltovern.
;the main opposition groups:
fighting the Iraqi government, ment - there is rio iùaranieéj
,have officially rejectéd separat.: that they won't behave in, thê;
1sm and are demanding auton- ,same way", ..,,The onlyclUilrâri"'
:Ornywithin a united and demo tee istoi'. thereto beaf8aeiü'
~çrAtiçIr.!m.,
!lta~e ~cffortJ1eTiNto;~Il"'
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Financial Times April18, 1991
remembering
n1Sëmât:" .
Kurds facing long stays in
,bleak refugee, camps are
'acutely aware of the' mistakes
~ade by their Palestinian fellow-refugees.
They fear they
.may live to regret leaving their'
'homes in the face of real or'
.threatened persecution, and'
moderate Kurds are anxious to:
restrain those who advocate
,terrorism.
"If we're going to have a permanent
refugee problem then
obviously it's going to be
worse, a lot worse than expeC"
ted," said Mr Abbas Vali,'
senior politics lecturer at the.
University of Wales at Swan.,
sea. "It's going to be a breeding,
ground for all sorts of negativè
tendencies in the Kurdish:
movement," ,
The Kurds have few qualms'
about seeking military help'
from the outside world. They
argue that the world has obli.'
gations under the Genocide
Convention of 1948. They point,
out that foreign intervention to
help peoples subjected to tyr.,
anny is not unprecedented and
they cite the US invasion of
Panama'in 1989and the Tanzai
nian overthrow of Uganda's Idl:
Amin 10years earlier.
Kurdish guerrilla groups:
resent the suggestion that they',
miscalculated by launching an.
ill-advise!1 rebellion through-'
out Iraqi 'Kurdistan after the,
'allies defeated Mr Saddam'sl
army and ,drove it out of:
Kuwait. :
What in fact occurred was ai
spontaneous popular uprising!
that the guerrillas could not;
ijmo~. At first.theY ~ad only
10,000r~litetS \llldet armSbul:
their ranks were swelled by
mass defections from the gov-
,èrnment's Kurdîsh militia.
, All were lightly anned and
could not hope to hold tl)!l
towns when confronted with
Iraqi tanks, artillery and helii
copter gunships. ,
They were defeated in Kirkuk
but elsewhere they simplY
,melted into the hills to coni
tinue, the fight.
Civilians in towns, mean~
while, took fright as the governi
ment again seized control and
took its revenge; in the old day~
they would have taken refugi
in their mountain villages, bu
:Mr Saddam had destroye
these. They fled to Iran an ,
:Turkey,leaving Iraqi Kurdis~
;all but deserted and suffe~
~ihe catastrophe which has
finally embarrassed the US an~
its allies int.o taking action.' j
If the Iraqi Kurds are ever tQ
'leave the refugee camps, which
have yet to be built to receive
'them, and if the international
community is ever to be
relieved of the responsibility o~
protecting them, the Kurds will
have to become part cf Iraq's
political system.' .
'''There "has
to he-a îneèliànism
for allQwinlt'the Kurds to
.have a say in the l!eiVernmen.tal
,pr~ess." says Mr~~. "If thll
alhed forces, the ;";West,' are
looking for a stable Iraq
I - which is really their.:prim~;
:objective rather thaQ