SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Some Kurdish leaders describe Monday's referendum on independence as a historic chance for the ethnic group to shape its own destiny after decades of oppression. Yet there was little enthusiasm for voting in the city of Sulaimaniya.
No long queues snaked around buildings as one might expect of a people who have dreamed of their own nation all their lives.
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