To the outside world the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq appears to be progressive, prosperous and democratic. It's a picture which the Kurdish regional government is keen to promote and, compared to the carnage in the rest of Iraq, it's a reasonably accurate one. But in Assignment this week Kate Clark discovers another story - a Kurdistan where corruption and nepotism flourish and people say their government is indifferent to their suffering.
First broadcast in February 2008
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