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68 results found for '"Kurds"' in Keywords.
Iranian embassy siege - Iranian ethnic divisions (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a male (Iranian?) speaker (not identified) about ethnic divisions in Iran including claims to independence by the Kurdish and Arab communities within the country. The interview comes after the...
Iran-Iraq war - effect on Kurds (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with journalist Roger Cooper, on how the Iran-Iraq war is affecting the Kurdish population within Iran and Iraq, and on the current military strength of both countries. Male interviewer not...
Iraq hostage situation (1982)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the current situation of Michael Powell, a British engineer being held as a prisoner of Kurds in northern Iraq. Speakers include: Powell’s mother Betty Powell; brother John Powell; journalist...
Iraqi troops desert, to join Kurdish guerrillas (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
There are reported to be around 80,000 Iraqi soldiers deserting to Kuwait and Turkey or joining Kurdish guerrillas opposed to the war in the Gulf. An unidentified (Middle Eastern?) male speaker says that...
Iraqi war crimes (1991)
- Genre
- News report
Paul Maurice reports from Kuwait City following the end of the Gulf war on the atrocities by Iraqis and on the Governor of Iraq’s 19th province, Kuwait, Ali Hassan al-Majid, now being a wanted man in...
US rejects Major’s Kurds proposal (1991)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
North American correspondent Paul Woodley reports on the rejection by Europe and the United States of a proposal suggested by British Prime Minister John Major to create a UN-administered safe haven to...
End of Gulf War (1991)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Paul Woodley reports on Commander of Operation Desert Storm General Norman Schwarzkopf’s claims the Gulf War ended too soon, US President George Bush and Defence Secretary Dick Cheney have denied them....
Saddam’s atrocities against Kurds (1991)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Mark Phillips reports on the plight of the Kurds in Iraq after the Gulf War, as Saddam Hussein’s forces are committing genocide and the USA and Britain are refusing to intervene militarily. Journalists...
Help for Kurdish refugees (1991)
- Genre
- Press conference
Press conference by former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on what she would do to help the Kurds who are being persecuted in Iraq by Saddam Hussein.
UN terms for official end to Gulf war (1991)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Paul Woodley reports from New York on the United Nations Security Council agreeing its terms for the official end of the Gulf war and discussion of the Kurdish people’s persecution with military action...