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NORTHERN Iraq’s ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) faces a military mutiny after at least 180 peshmerga troops laid down their weapons today and refused to fight in what could become a deadly intra-Kurdish war.
Soldiers at Etruscan training camp in the mountainous Duhok province of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region are reported to have said: “We will not fight against the guerillas.”
Their act of defiance came just days after Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) politburo member Mahmud Sengawi, who commands peshmerga fighters on the Germiyan front, pledged that his forces would “not fire a single bullet at the PKK [Kurdistan Workers Party] even if all hell breaks loose.”
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