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Jahi Chikwendiu / The Washington Post The Kurds are an ethnic group of an estimated 25 million people, 3.5 million of whom live in the mountainous region of northern Iraq. When the Kurds joined Iran's war against Iraq in the 1980s, Hussein responded by using poison gas on the residents of the Kurdish town of Halabja in March 1988, killing an estimated 5,000 people. After the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Kurds prospered when the United States and Great Britain established a so-called "no-fly zone" in northern Iraq where Iraqi war planes were forbidden to fly. With this protection, the Kurds established a semi-autonomous region. This year, the Kurds lived through their fear of further attacks from Saddam as the US led attacks against their most primary enemy's government. |
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