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Another fantastic film by Sam Kiley from his travels to northern iraq during the 2003 war to report on the return of Kurdish fighters to the ethnically mixed, and oil rich, city of Kirkuk.
He tells the story of the Kurds and the Anfal Campaign…a story which I doubt the media will tell when Saddam Hussein’s trial kicks back up on September 11.
What is of intense interest to me here is the clear dilineation between the ethnic groups and what happened right after Saddam’s regime fell; a good indication of what we were taking on and how the Iraqis were turning to us to keep the order when the kurds came back to ‘claim the land’ that they’d been kicked out of. Seems to me that it’s going to take some time before these people learn to live together. Having a segregated country is not going to help them be tolerant of one another.
Another example of how Saddam’s regime kept people separated and hating one another based on ‘race’ rather than acceptance of everyone’s differences. Saddam’s regime was supposedly secular, although he mixed Islam and sharia law in there.
This is another great expose which really helped me to understand more of what Iraq and Saddam Hussein were all about, and what it is we’re dealing with right now.
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