General information

Call No.:

350-4-3:65/4

Part of series

HU OSA 350-4-3 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Middle East: Iraq

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #65 / No. 4

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009870

Date of production

1991

Date

1991

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English, English, Kurdish

Duration

25 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

A short inquiry into the strange wars of Kurdistan in the early 90s, when ferocious battles broke out between Turkish, Iranian, and Iraqi Kurds. The Iraqi Kurds, in cooperation with the Turks, took up arms against their Kurdish brethren, the PKK guerilla army. As a result, the PKK guerillas, about 10,000 of them, were caught between the Turks and Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga fighters. In addition, the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) stepped up to the Iranian shelling of the Kurds. These intricate overlaps of forces produced numerous victims, mostly among the civilian Kurds. “A New Kurdish Crisis” is a short documentary exploring the forces dividing the Kurds, the Peshmerga fighters, the PKK, and the KDP.

Context

Associated Names

Journeyman Pictures (Copyright holder, Producer)