Mr. President. as the possibility of war in the Persian Gulf grows more real every day I want to call attention to the plight of a group of people whose past suffering at the hands of Saddam Hussein have too readily been ignored by the world community. including the Bush administration. Today there are approximately 12.000 Kurdish refugees living in squalor in the Kiziltepe camp in Turkey. just 100 miles from the TurkeyIraq border. They are among an estimated 30.000 Kurdish refugees living in camps inside Turkey along the Iraqi border. They fled Iraq in 1988. after Hussein bombed their villages with chemical weapons. Although that has often been cited as an example of the barbarity that Saddam Hussein is capable of. it was only one of many outrages he inflicted on the Kurds.
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