POL SCI 139 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Operation Northern Watch, Operation Provide Comfort, United Nations Security Council Resolution 688
17 Nov 2016
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Anfal campaign: chemical weapons against the kurds from saddam. Placed in camps, little to no international support of kurds. Turkish gov"t won;t allow relocation of refugees > repatriated. Little support to iraq, horizontal drilling of oil, saw kuwait as a part of iraq historically. Pushed from kuwait, possibly overthrown > uprisings in southern (shi"a) and. Kurdish supplies cut off by bombed bridge to turkey > no response from international community, only syria. Turkey refuses asylum, refuses to acknowledge them as refugees. Quelled by saddam; us didn"t aid shi"a and kurds. International powers come to support kurds through un resolution 688. Humanitarian: airdrops, us provides temporary cam[ps, iraq withdraws from security zones. No-fly zone over northern iraq: violated by turkey, bombed kurdish elements attacking turkey. 2 stages: humanitarian and no-fly zone of northern iraq. End of cold war, due to media scenes. Questions of kurdish national identity and autonomy; kurdish separatist. Intra struggle w/ kurds, iraq goes into no-fly zone.
