The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's Al Ittihad newspaper carried an editorial Monday with the headline, "In the commemoration of the March intifada."

It said Iraqis commemorate the March 1991 uprising, or intifada, when Iraqis revolted against Saddam Hussein's "dictatorship" but due to abandonment by the United States, it failed and resulted in the killing of thousands of Iraqis by Saddam's supporters.

The editorial said the 1991 uprising resulted in many changes on the political map in Iraq, affected regional relationships, and revealed many of the truths hidden by Saddam's government.

"One of the facts Saddam tried to hide … was the Iraqi people's general rejection of the dictatorship," it said.

The Kurdish newspaper said in its editorial that the reality the uprising uncovered was the regional and international conspiracy with Saddam's government against the Iraqi people and the desire of some regional powers to keep Saddam's government in power for narrow sectarian, ethnic and personal interests.