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Kurdistance: Similarities with the Lakota Sioux

Written byDeborah Ann Dilley
Posted 16 December 2008 18 years ago

Kurdish blogger Rasti compares the recent declaration of the Lakota Sioux (a native American people) to withdraw from all treaty obligations with the United States to the forced assimilation and cultural genocide of the Kurdish people.

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