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Kurdistan: Kirkuk wants rights to oil 23.8.2006
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In Iraq, striking oil
workers have shut the main pipeline supplying
Baghdad with refined oil products.
Seven hundred workers from the state-owned General
Company for Oil Lines and Pipes have quit work in
Southern parts of the country, demanding higher
salaries and a share in the profits.
Demand for oil ownership is a fraught and
controversial issue in Iraq - never more so than in
its multi-ethnic and oil rich Kurdish area of Kirkuk.
Sitting on 40 per cent of Iraq's oil fields,
Kirkuk's demographic structure has changed
drastically since 2003, with the return of 250,000
Kurds who were expelled by Saddam.
Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region wants the right
to control petroleum operations in its own territory
and the disputed province of Kirkuk.
We have a special report from Kurdistan-born Karzan
Sherabayani who returns to his home in Kirkuk
Kurdistan (northern Iraq), to investigate the oil
crisis affecting this region.
Source:channel4 com
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