HC Deb 23 April 1991 vol 189 c413W
Mr. Dalyell

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment was made of the effect of calls for insurrection by radio stations on(a) the Kurds and (b) the Shias during February and March.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

Following the end of the Gulf conflict those oppressed by Saddam Hussein in the Kurdish north and the Shia south of Iraq decided to rise up against the Iraqi regime. Those concerned took this decision for themselves.

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