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To: NickSE who wrote (84992)	3/22/2003 5:29:49 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) of 281500

THE IRAQI CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE MARSH ARABS: ECOCIDE AS GENOCIDE jurist.law.pitt.edu Who Are the Marsh Arabs? While Saddam’s persecution of political enemies is notorious, many people have not much attention to just who these enemies are. Persons who are particularly attentive to the situation in Iraq would have heard of Kurds in the north, or of Shiite Arabs generally. Others might have thought of “enemies” only as a generic term with no specific content. Neither group was likely to have heard of the “Marsh Arabs” of southern Iraq who have been one of Saddam’s main targets. The Marsh Arabs constitute a society of 500,000 or more people who have lived in and around an enormous freshwater wetland ecosystem for thousands of years. Since the Gulf War, the Marsh Arabs have suffered the total destruction of their economy, their culture, their habitat and their way of life.....

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