Tuesday April 28, 2009
Martyrs of the Iraqi marshes
Patrick Cockburn
Independent
They survived Saddam, but now the marsh Arabs are losing a battle against nature
One of the few successes of the Iraqi governments since the fall of Saddam Hussein has been reversing one of his great crimes: the draining of the marshes of southern Iraq and the destruction of the unique water-born civilisation which had survived there for thousands of years.
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