By Heather Cottin
...HRW gives the plight of the Kurds as one reason for indicting the Iraqi leader. The Kurds are a people with a distinct language and culture who live in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Washington has tried to manipulate their struggle for self-determination, using it when and where it is convenient to U.S. geo-strategic interests. -------- In Russia, fwiw, HRW is widely considered a Western propaganda organization (which sounds funny to me, but what the hey -- though they are suspiciously quiet whenever a Chechen kills someone).
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