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March 24, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/24/international/middleeast/24SYRI.html

Gains by Kin in Iraq Inflame Kurds' Anger at Syria

(New York Times) - The larger-than-life statue of the late president, Hafez al-Assad, that towers over a traffic circle in Qamishliye, Syria, stands hidden beneath a tarpaulin, which residents say hides the fact that antigovernment protesters knocked off its head. Kurdish Syrians, 2 million of Syria's 17 million people, say that watching rights for Kurds being enshrined in a new constitution next door in Iraq finally pushed them to take to the streets to demand greater recognition.

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