Exode (des Kurdes d'Irak) - Institut kurde de Paris

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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RIVISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASlN ÖZETi
Camps open as Bush guarantees Kurds'-safety
David Hearst ln Zakho and
'Martin Walker In Washington
HE first Kurdish refugees
were expected to arrive In
T, their hundred!i.~today as
,the last Iraqi soldiers fled the
:'t.cl\VI~of Zakho in northern Iraq.
:- US and British COll)mande$,
'ti,fter days of confronting thp
"lraqis .without using force, arè
':'$(jli'sfled they can make the
town secure and dispel the fear
of up to 750,000 refugees In the
,IÎlollntalns that Zakho Is unsafe
'to'return to,
Senior US commanders said
~'yesterday that many problems
:'femained, not least the amount
of'arms they are finding m the
town. Kurdish leaders have
agreed that the encampment
outside Zakho should not be
llsed as a base from which to
launch attacks on the Iraqi
regime. Anolher problem is the
arrival of non-Kurdish Iraqis yesterday that the UN was plan.
hoping to emigrate to a Western ning to take over the camps in
country. northern Iraq "as soon as poss.
The Iraqis have withdrawn ible - it is a question of days".
all their troops to about 20 But he added that It would
miles south of Zakho, but in Do. lake time to co-ordinate plans
houk they are reported to be with the US and allied troops
bulldozing the homes of Kurd. over the hanclover of resp.onsi.
ish families who have fled. bility for the camps. UN offi.
'j'he continuing role of the US eials later acknowledged that
was yesterday confirmed by "serious questions" would
President Bush when he dc- remain over the physical secu.
cla,ed an open.ended military rit y ( • the camps, which opens
commitment to protect the the' possibllity of a protective
Kurdish refugees. Anù he again role for the allies.
tailed for the toppling of Sad. Mr Blish marle lillie secret of
dam Hussein, vowing: '''l'here his own scepticism about l'resi.
will not be normal relations dentSaddam's new offcr of au.
with that man as long as I'm tonomy for the Kurds and he
President." repeated his personal loathing
'l'he US troops "arc going to for the Iraqi leader.
stay there as long as it takes to But Mr Bush 'sounded l'rusmake
sure these refugees are trated and rather hapless,
taken care of, and not a minute wantine the fall of President
longer," President Bush said. Saddam but lacking any serious
The UN Secretary-General, I policy for bringing this about.
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. said "History will show you these
things managè to take care of
themselves and I hope it happens
soon because we want him
out of there," the President
said, a resounding phrase
whieh masked the absence of
any serious US policy for Iraq's
future.
Mr 'Bush has conslstenlly
refused to take responsibility
for the Kurdish and Iraqi
Shi 'He revolt, which followed
his call for "the Iraqi people
and military to take matters
into lheir ownhands".
There seems to be an un.
seemly haste In lhe Bush ad.
minislration to wash Its hands
of the Iraqi situation, and to
'flOpe that the UN or ils Arab
allies will take care of the
messy aftermath of the war.
The US, was delighted with
Saudi Arabia's decision to build
a refugee camp on Hs soil for
the 40,000 Iraqi Shi'Hes who had
been under US protection inside
southern Iraq until the
handover to the UN representa. ,
tives this week.
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Saudi officials said yesterday
\hat the camp, at the remote"
Saudi border town of RaCha,
should be ready to accept the
first refugees early next week.
US military aircrart ycster'
day began loa'ling supplies for
their first mIssion into Iran
since the abortivc resclle al.
tempt lo l'l'cc the US diplornatic
hostages in April, 1980. The U~
has agreed lo send food, blankets,
tcnts and medical supplies
to morc than one million KUl'lls
who fled across lhe uorder into,
Iran.
This is the first step in the.
anticipated US-Iranian
rapprodiemelll.
• Iraq said ycsterday H was
disbandi'ng ils one-million
strone popular arrny comprising
mainly 16- and l?-year.olds
and men over 4:'
Un representante kurdoaseguta. en Granada que no cree
que SadamHùsseÎn sehaya convertido en un dem6crata
Para la OLP la liberaci6n de Palestina ha de ser la segunda parte de la reconquista de Kuwait
!Continullron ayer las sesiones de trabajo
dei 'Dialogo Mediterraneo de los Ciudadanos',
el foro internacionaJ por la paz que ba
reunido en Granada a representantes de los
pueblos arabe y europeo, en una reunion
que es la primera tras la guerra dei Golfo
,Pérsico, El, presidente d~l ~nstituto Kurdo
JUAN ENRIQUE GO~EZ ' ,
GRANADA
«Queremos que npestros compatriotas
kurdos regresen a sus
"'ogares sanos y salvos, pero tem't:mos
que todo puede ser una
,trampa deI licier iraqui. Por ese
motivo vemos un poco raro que
$ea cierta la idea de que Sadam
Hussein se pueda convertir en
:un dem6crata ){ permitir la
çreäci6n de una autonomia kurda»,
ha dicho en Granada el
presidente dei Instituto Kurdo
de Paris,' Kendal Nezan,' que
âyer mismo abandonaba Granapa
a toda prisa para tomar parte
en las conversaciones interna-
~ionales que se estân producienpo
sobre la problemâtica dei
pueblo kurdo. Kendal Nezan se
mostraba verdaderamente consternadö
cuando recordaba las
lfuâgenes televisivas de la muer"
le de miles de sus compatriotas
en territorio iraqui.
, Para este representante de
uJlode los pueblos que mâs han
~iJfrido la intransigencia dei gobierno
de Irak, el problema fundamental
de las ultimas conversaciones
de BagQ.a~_entre kur- ,
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de Paris, ba mostrado su reticencia a creer
que eillder iraqui, Sadam Hussein, se baya
convertido en un amante de la democracia
al asegurar la vuelta sin problemas de los
ciudadanos kurdos a sus casas en Irak, ademas
de mostrar la necesidad de crear un
estado, autonomoque aglutine a los ciuda-
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clanos kurdos de Irak. En este encuentro de
ciudaclanos de paises ribereilos ban tellido
especial ineidencia las cODversacloDesentre
palestinOs e !sraelles, algunos grupos de
Israel piden a su gobiemo que se Uegv,ea
una situacion de paz y autoDomia para los
D8lestinos.
El presidente dei Instituto Kurdo de Paris, Kendal Kezan. q, la izquierdo, habla con participantes
./?1Ielj)iql9lloNediterrdneo de los Ciudadanos. " ' "