David Pratt: Time for the West to repay a great debt and rescue the Kurds

BY truck, cart, mule and mostly on foot, they made their way along twisting roads and dirt tracks from Kurdish cities and up into the hills. It’s long been said that the unofficial motto of the Kurdish people, is that the Kurds “have no friends but the mountains”. But during those bleak weeks back in 1991 as virtually the entire Kurdish population of northern Iraq fled towards the Turkish and Iranian borders, the mountains were as pitilessly cruel to them as Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16111211.David_Pratt__Time_for_the_West_to_repay_a_great_debt_and_rescue_the_Kurds/?ref=rss