Kevin McKiernan discusses the plight of the Kurds who live in Northern Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria. As part of his talk, Mr. McKiernan looks at the atrocities committed against the Iraqi Kurds by Saddam Hussein during the 1980s (with the support of the U.S. government), the abandonment of the Iraqi Kurds after the 1991 Gulf War, and the leading role that the Kurds are playing in Iraq today. He also talks about the repression faced by Kurds living in Turkey and the clashes between the Kurds of Turkey and the Kurds of Iraq. The talk was hosted by MIT's Center for International Studies. Includes a slide show and Question and Answer with the MIT audience.
Kevin McKiernan's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, and Time. He has been reporting on the Kurds since 1991 and most recently covered the Iraq War for ABC News.
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Kevin McKiernan
Kevin McKiernan's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, and Time. He has been reporting on the Kurds since 1991 and most recently covered the Iraq War for ABC News. Mr. McKiernan is the writer/director of the PBS documentary "Good Kurds, Bad Kurds."
John Tirman
John Tirman is the executive director of the Center for International Studies at MIT. Previously he was a Fulbright Scholar in Cyprus. He has written several books, including Spoils of War and Making the Money Sing: Private Wealth and Public Power in the Search for Peace.
Mr. Tirman's articles have appeared in The Nation, Boston Review, the New York Times, and Los Angeles Times.
A very one sided elementary presentation full of cliche and mainstream iconography that does nothing to inform the viewer of the deeper issues about this conflict that continues since 1983.