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•HERALD TRIBUNE 27.4.88
Moscow Allows Kurdisn'StUdents
To March in Protest of Gas'Attack
Reuters
MOSCOW - Kurdish students
waving photographs of burned and
mutilated babies marched through
Moscow for nearly an hour Tuesday,
shouting "Death to Saddam
Hussein," to protest what the
Kurds and Iran say was a chemical
weapons attack by Iraq.
The police allowed about 50
.demonstrators to march from Red
Square past government ministries
to the Moscow River before they
halted the protest against the policies
of Mr. Hussein's government
in Iraq, which has a friendship treaty
with Moscow and buys Soviet
arms.
The police broke up the demonstration
after negotiating with the
students. One demonstrator said
the police had threatened to send
them back to Iraq if they went
through; with their intention to
march/to the Iraqi Embassy.. The
protester said some of the students
might be punished.
The students declared a day of
mourning 40 days after Tehran alleged
that Baghdad had used poison
gas against the Kurdish residents
of Halabja, a town in eastern
Iraq captured by Iran Ûl mid-
March.
HERALD TRIBUNE 27.4.88
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Kurdish rebels entered a village in
southeast Turkey on Tuesday an~
killed a visitor staying with the village
headman, local officials said;
Earlier, guerrillas clashed with se~'
curity forces in the north. One rebel
was killed and three soldiers wer~
wounded,
"Halabja is the Hiroshima of policy on protests by Jews seeking
Kurdistan," the demonstrators to emigrate, in which the police in
shouted as they moved from St. .Moscow have ripped away banners
Basil's Cathedral, near the Kremlin and detained demonstrators, most
wall, to start -theirmarch. recently last week.
They said 10,000 people were The Kurds were allowed to dekilled
and another 10,000 injured part peacefully, their posters
as chemical fumes enveloped Ha- tucked under their arms.
labja. Red Square has become a site of
Iran, which took a group of demonstrations since Crimean Ta-
Western reporters to visit the city tars demanding the right to return
l~st. month, ~~l!sed ,Baghdad of to their homeland held an unprecekillmg
5,000 cIVlliansID the attack dented 24-hour protest there in
March 16. Iraq denies having car- JulY.
ried out such an attack.
The students said their protest
group consisted mainly of Iraqi
Kurds, but it included students
from Syria and Turkey.
At times the police appeared perplexed
about how to deal with a
demonstration that supported a vital
Soviet demand on arms control,
a ban on chemical weapons, while
also attacking an ally.
Baghdad and Moscow signed 'i
friendship treaty in 1972 and the
Soviet Union is Iraq's major arms
supplier in the Gulf War. But ties
have cooled in recent months because
Moscow has refused to back
an arms embar~o against Tehran.
The authorities' attitude toward
the march contrasted sharply with
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