id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt pst.000018075236 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Civil war in Iraq : a staff report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate 4.F 76/2:S.prt.102-27 1991 .txt text/plain 6699 396 57 • Iraq's civil war has cost tens of thousands of lives in the Kurdish and Shi'a regions of the country, and has precipitated an immense humanitarian catastrophe. northern Iraqi city of Zakho will draw thousands of Kurdish refugees out of the mountains. • The more than 1 million Kurds languishing in Iraqi resettlement areas are the invisible victims of Iraq's civil war and repression. Iraq by calling on the Iraqi people to overthrow Saddam Hussein, over a 1988 State Department meeting with a Kurdish leader, continued until the end of the gulf war and even after Turkey initiated its own dialog with the Iraqi Kurds. Within days Iraqi army forces moved into other Kurdish cities and war—the Iraqi air force launched massive chemical weapons attacks on Kurdish villages along the Iraq-Turkey border. Kurdish and other Iraqi opposition leaders was read as a clear indication that the United States did not want the popular rebellion to ./cache/pst.000018075236.pdf ./txt/pst.000018075236.txt