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The accidental nation

BBC World Service

In 1991 the US-led effort to evict the Iraqi Army from Kuwait produced many unintended consequences. Perhaps the most significant and the least noticed was the creation of a de facto Kurdish state in northern Iraq. The Kurdish safe haven, which was the first United Nations-approved humanitarian intervention against the will of a sovereign state, would never have come to pass without worldwide media pressure on the USA and Europe to do something about Saddam Hussein's brutal repression of the Kurdish rebellion against his regime. The Kurds did with press coverage what they had failed to achieve in decades of armed struggle. This article is an adaptation from Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East, published by Walker & Company, New York, April 2008.

Key Words: Barzani • humanitarian intervention • Iraq • Kurds • Talabani

Media, War & Conflict, Vol. 1, No. 2, 141-153 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1750635208090954


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