Iraqi Kurds 'Ethnically Cleanse' Iraqi Bedouin

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday April 14, 2003 14:41 by redjade

when does the 'nation building' begin? Oh yes, i forgot, W is opposed to nation building, only destroying...

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This village is one of five south of Kirkuk where residents have been notified by the Patriotic Union's office in Daquq to vacate their homes by Monday. On a tour today to the area, researchers for Human Rights Watch, an independent group, said they found credible accounts of 2,000 people who had already been displaced from the area.

A senior Kurdish official also said tonight there had been reports of rapes committed by looters or vandals in another village. The official said the reports had not yet been confirmed and were being investigated.

Journalists have also seen several emptied Arab villages on the road that runs northwest from Kirkuk to Maqmur, and more on another highway heading south.

In the villages, the unrest has the feel of an opportunity lost. Many of the Bedouin said they had supported the removal of Mr. Hussein.

"Saddam," said Muhammad Muzir Shahim, standing with other men in this village when three Western journalists and the Human Rights Watch team arrived. "Hitler No. 2."