June 1, 2015
THERE IS NO IRAQ:
Thousands of Arabs driven out by Kurds' ethnic cleansing (Hannah Lucinda Smith, June 1 2015, Times of London)
Thousands of civilians have fled their homes in northern Syria as Kurdish forces carry out what appears to be a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Sunni Arabs.A source from one of the largest humanitarian organisations working inside Syria told The Times that the Kurdish people's protection units (YPG) -- the west's closest allies in the war against Islamic State -- have been burning Arab villages in areas of northeastern Syria under their control.
The only real question since we decided to liberate the people there from Saddam was whether the Sunni of Western Iraq could form themselves into a coherent third nation.
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 1, 2015 1:36 PM
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