Table of Contents

Foreword
Map of the area inhabited by Kurds
Introduction
PART I: THE PAST
1. The Kurds
2. The Treaty of Sèvres and the Creation of Iraq
3. The Kurds Under Barzani
4. The Anfal Campaigns
5. The First Gulf War: From Uprising to Democracy
6. Democracy in Iraqi Kurdistan
7. Human Rights in Iraqi Kurdistan
8. The Displacement of Kurds in Iraq
9. Economic/Humanitarian Affairs in Iraqi Kurdistan
10. The Kurds Have no Friends but the Mountains
11. US Foreign Policy towards Saddam: Pre-September
PART II: THE PRESENT
12. The Road to War
13. The Second Gulf War: 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'
14. Current Executive Structure in Iraq
15. Insurgency and Sectarianism
16. Current Legal and Human Rights Issues
17. The Question of Autonomy
18. The Anfal Campaigns: The War Crimes Tribunal
19. The Continuing Problem of Internal Displacement
20. Current Economic/Humanitarian Issues in Iraqi Kurdistan
PART III: THE FUTURE
21. Self-Determination and Autonomy
22. Kirkuk
23. The Tribunal and the Victims
24. The Land Question
Appendix I:
Appendix II:
Appendix III:
Notes
Index

About the Author

Kerim Yildiz is the Chief Executive of the Kurdish Human Rights Project, a human rights organisation securing redress for survivors of human rights violations and to preventing future abuses. A Kurd and former refugee from political persecution, he is a spokesperson for issues of human rights, minority rights and international law. He is the author of The Future of Kurdistan (Pluto, 2011) and The Kurds in Iraq (Pluto, 2007).

Reviews

The book is a unique account of the problems that all political groups face in brinnging stability to the country, as well as exploring Kurdish links and international relations in the broader sense. It should be required reading for policy-makers and anyone interested in the current position of Kurds in Iraq.
*Kurdish Human Rights Project*

A useful, practical survey of the Iraqi Kurdish experience up through and after the 2003 war. His analysis of the relationship existing between the United States, Turkey, and the Iraqi Kurds is particularly revealing.
*Middle East Journal*

Kurds are primarily known to much of the world as victims of Saddam Hussein's regime. Yildiz, a Kurdish refugee and executive director of the Kurdish Human Rights Project, reviews his people's demographics, history (including US involvement in Kurdish affairs), aspirations for an independent Kurdistan, and current humanitarian/economic challenges.
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