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by Peggy Gish “I felt responsible to go to the demonstrations after the violent response of the authorities to the protesters on 17 February,” Mamosta*

  by David Hovde “The tomatoes will be ready in a few days,” Mahmud told CPT-Iraq team members.  “Yesterday there was bombing on this mountain.”

  A taxi driver told CPTers that his day job is working for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) clearing minefields.  MAG is a not-for-profit organization

by David Hovde Ismail Abdulla worked as a driver in Suleimaniyah for a retired leader in the government.  On 17 February 2011, people began to

by Michele Naar-Obed The people’s uprising against corruption and lack of basic rule of law in the Kurdish north of Iraq has come to an

  At the Iraq/Iran border, in a beautiful mountainous area called Kanispi (which means white spring), lies a field of landmines.  The beauty of nature

by Stewart Vriesinga Sattar Hattem served as a translator and mentor for CPT-Iraq when the team was based in Baghdad.  His death in October prompted

  On 3 November 2010, the Parliament of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) passed a law regulating demonstrations within the KRG.  According to various civil

by Michele Naar-Obed Every week during the 62-day nonviolent people’s uprising in Suleimaniya (Kurdish north of Iraq), organizers gave a different name to the demonstrations

  For the last five years, CPT has accompanied Iraqi Kurdish families displaced on an annual basis from their villages along the Iraq/Iran border.  What