The Kurds in Iraq: the past, present and future

Foreword / Mark Muller

PART I: THE PAST. The Kurds

The Treaty of Sèvres and the creation of Iraq

The Kurds under Barzani

The Anfal campaigns

The First Gulf War : From uprising to democracy

Democracy in Iraqi Kurdistan

Human rights in Iraqi Kurdistan

The displacement of Kurds in Iraq

Economic/humanitarian affairs in Iraqi Kurdistan

The Kurds have no friends but the mountains

US foreign policy toward Saddam : Pre-September 11

PART II: THE PRESENT. The road to war

The Second Gulf War : 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'

Current executive structure in Iraq

Insurgency and sectarianism

Current legal and human rights issues

The question of autonomy

The Anfal campaigns : The War Crimes Tribunal

The continuing problem of internal displacement

Current economic/humanitarian issues in Iraqi Kurdistan

PART III: THE FUTURE. Self-determination and autonomy

Kirkuk

The tribunal and the victims

The land question

Addendum

Appendix I. Articles of the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres relating to Kurdistan

Appendix II: The Kurdistan regional government provisional constitution for the Federal Republic of Iraq

Appendix III: UN guiding principles for internal displacement.