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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (69598)	4/9/2003 11:32:55 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Respond to of 70976

>> But if we don't see Kurds moving back into their old cities to undo the Arabization If the Kurds are prevented from their "right of return", it would be a gross injustice. But actually, that part will go much better than you fear. I think the way the Kurds were made to leave Kirkuk was that every person in Iraq was required to have a new identity/residence card to function in the government controlled part of the country. This card had a place to mark one of two ethnic backgrounds. Arabic/Moslem or Chaldean/Christian. But not Kurdish. The Kurds who refused to mark their identity as Arab/Moslem couldn't get the new ID cards, so couldn't function, and were expelled from the city. Everyone knows this is an idiotic decree, and I think it will be the first one to be abolished. And this has not been in place for so long (1996 ?) that it can't be undone without much dislocation.