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Irbil Citadel: Displacing Kurds to restore Heritage Monument
Feb 7 2007, Kanchan

An ancient city has to be preserved but the price is high, the 828 families living there have been thrown out of their homes. This was done by Kurdish authorities of northern Iraq with the aim of getting the area approved of as a World Heritage...

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