'Honor killings' take heavy toll in Iraqi Kurdistan
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
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At least 27 women have died in so-called "honor killings" over the past four months in northern Kurdish Iraq, an official from the regional government said Monday. Aziz Mohammad, the human rights minister in the Kurdish regional government, said 10 of the murdered women were from Irbil, 11 from Dohuk and six from Suleimaniyya.
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