Nation Building in Kurdistan

The Kurdish people and the Kurdish Regional Government faced huge challenges rebuilding their nation and identity after the atrocities and human rights abuses committed by Saddam Hussein and his regime. In 2005 a new Iraqi constitution recognised as genocide the persecution of Faylee Kurds, the disappearance of 8,000 Kurds belonging to Barzan and t

Autorentext

Dr Mohammed Ihsan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Defence Studies Department in King's College, London and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter College of Social Sciences and International Studies. He was a minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government from 2000 to 2014. He holds a PhD in International Law (2001) and another PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies (2014). He has authored various articles and books on Kurdistan and Iraq.

Inhalt

1 A country in the Marking 2. Arabization as Ethnic Cleansing 3. Propagating Hate, Inciting Murder 4. Blueprint of a Genocide 5. A State Engineered National Project 6. Death from the Sky 7. A New Horizon Conclusion