Posted on February 27, 2008 in Images

A 1922 political cartoon on the British invasion of Iraq. In the 1920’s, Britain imposed a H?shimite monarchy on Iraq and defined the territorial limits of Iraq without taking into account the politics of the different ethnic and religious groups in the country, in particular those of the Kurds and the Assyrians to the north. During the British occupation, the Shi’ites and Kurds fought for independence.

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