In the city of Halabja, more than 3,000 Kurdish men, women and children were gassed to death.

About 200 more Kurdish men arrived here tonight from refugee camps to join the construction crews the Americans are setting up.

Our own tybo described his relief at turning a corner and finding a group of young Kurdish men on sentry duty.

Military guards subjected each Kurdish man to a hand search for weapons.

The second attempt came, but the Kurds were beaten again, as the Kurdish men lost well over 300 men.

"Many people were collapsing around us and dying," says a Kurdish man who survived a poison gas attack.

Kurdish accounts say that thousands more Kurdish men were arrested and never seen again.

Around the Army camp, Kurdish men in their teens and 20's run the business.

Not so many years ago, a terrified young Kurdish man from Turkey sought asylum in this country.

A few days ago, a young Kurdish man was shot by the police in a medium-sized town in Sweden.