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believe Mr. Putin the president of Russia over
looked the problems in his country and he does not
want to acknowledge it, and instead of sitting down
and negotiating his internal problem with his
Chechenan revival and to develop the process of
democracy and human rights in Russia, he is taking a
step that is much bigger than his capability as a
Russian president.
According to his statement which is sighted in
Kurdishmedia on 17th December 2004, he stated that
“(We stand for the territorial integrity of Iraq and
against the division of the country on quasi
states”).
But I would like to ask Mr. president and say, where
were you when the former Soviet Union was splitted
into many independent states and why he did not
prevent this from happening?
You should mind your own business Mr. Putin and do
not worry about somebody else’s business and leave
other people alone, do not get involved in their
business, and do not be double standard. If you are
so serious about the division, you should be keen
about your country and instead you can send your
troops to Chechnya not to North of Iraq, (South of
Kurdistan). You should focus on Chechnya
particularly and do not let it separate from Russia.
On one hand, I think this responsibility has more
priority compared to South of Kurdistan, but on the
other hand, Kurdish people have not got good
remembrance about previous governments and the
current government in Russia, except the bad one,
for example, if you go back to history, the former
Soviet Union, during the Kurdish revolution in 1975
the Russian pilots participated in the bombardment
of the Kurdish villages and its territory through
out Kurdistan, and even the Russian scientists
supported to build information in the Iraqi Army
industry.
In addition to that, Russia was behind the collapse
of Kurdistan Republic (Mhabad) in 1946, in Iran.
When Stalin was in power, he exiled about 2 million
Kurds among Russian cities. Even in the new century
the current government, Mr. President Putin acts in
the same way as the dictator Stalin, against the
wishes of Kurds and Iraqi people, by supporting the
former Iraqi regime and the ignorant regime such as
Turkey. These fascist regimes do not want people to
have freedom and enjoy the lifestyle of democracy
even in their own country.
Mr. President, I believe this is not the first time
that you have supported these regimes including a
former dictator Saddam Hussein. You mentioned it
even before the collapse of the former Iraqi
dictator saddam Hussein, and said it was not
adequate evidence in order to disarm the former
Iraqi dictator and take the dictator Saddam before
justice and to remove him from power.
In Kurdistan chemicals, such as hydrogen cyanide and
mustard gas were used against guerrillas (peshmarga)
and civilians for example the attacks on the Kurdish
town of Halabja on March 16th, 1988 in northern
Iraq, to bombardment with the greatest attack of
chemicals weapons ever used against civilians. The
chemical agents used were a cocktail of mastard gas
and the nerve agents sarin, tabun and VX. They
drenched the people's skin and clothes, damaged
their lungs, eyes and contaminated water and food.
In the bombardment many innocent people got killed
and they were immediate casualties of the attack.
Overall, approximately 7000 civilians got killed and
another 10,000 injured. These types of aggressive
operations by the former Iraqi regime repeated over
and over in Iraqi Kurdistan against Kurdish villages
for so many months during 1987 and 1988. For the
first time a mixture of chemical weapons were used
against a large population. Even many years after
the attack, the chemicals affected people's eyes and
respiratory and neurological systems. Many of them
went blind and received skin cancer, miscarriages,
and infant deaths.
According to Christine Gosden the finding of serious
congenital malformations with genetic causes
occurring in children born many years after the
human tragedy suggested that the effects of these
chemicals warfare agents are transmitted to
succeeding generations. The consequences of these
attacks caused many families to flee to refugee
camps in neighboring countries.
According to the Kurdish Media dated on 13/12/2002.
For the first time since the chemical attack on
Halabja in 1988, in an interview with a Swedish
television channel, Tariq Aziz the former Iraqi
deputy P.M, confessed that the Iraqi regime used
chemical weapons against the Iranian and the Kurds.
It is very obvious, that Saddam's regime continued
in the past to commit crimes against the Kurds and
the humanity. In 1987 and 1988 the regime abducted
300,000 Kurdish men, women and children during Anfal
operation the campaigns against the Kurds. This
genocide conducted by Iraqi regime and their fate is
still not known.
I can say that, Iraqi Kurdistan devastated by the
genocide of the 1988 Anfal campaign, which destroyed
almost 4500 villages. In additions to the crimes
that I have mentioned previously, the regime added
to its infamous history another terrible crime and
used more than 5000 Faili Kurds during his chemical
and biological experiments in September 1980,
according to the British daily Independent.
An official letter issued by the former Iraqi
Interior Ministry no. 2884 command, dated 10th April
1980, stated that "all youth aged between 18 and 28
are excused from deportation and must be held in
detention centres until further notice".
The people detained in Iraqi camps and prisons and
later on, the regime used the detainees in Iraqi
chemical and biological laboratories, and their
families deported to Iran. According to some Kurdish
families (Faili) have just arrived to Australia,
from the city of (Koot) in south of Iraq. They
assumed that the Iraqi regime killed thousands of
Kurdish Faili in the city of Nigra-Salman in 1988
under the name of chemical and biological
experiments. They received the news from the former
Iraqi Republican Guards in Iraq.
As we know the regime did stop its crime against the
people of Iraq, but continuously committed crimes.
The former dictator Saddam ordered an amnesty to
release political prisoners, but in reality, the
amnesty was just propaganda nothing else. The
prisoners were released mysteriously and gradually
dieing in increasing numbers, because the Iraqi
authorities injected the political prisoners with an
amount of poison to kill them. It takes a longer
period of time in order to avoid suspicion.
On the other hand, the former Iraqi regime
indirectly supported al-Qaeda, according to Ms Rice
the National Security Adviser in The United States
of America and Saddam has a long history of links
with terrorism and there were some of Qaedas member
who were refugees in Baghdad. She added and said
that Iraq provided some training to al-Qaeda in
chemical weapons development. According to the
declaration by some of the detainees from American
base in Guantanamo Bay.
Is not Mr. President, Vladimir Putin the
International Community and the Kurds have got
adequate evidence in order to take the former
dictator before justice? Finally, I would like to
say that the invasion of Iran, Kuwait and Kurdistan
are enough to prove that the dictator was very
aggressive and very dangerous for his own people,
the region and the International Community. There
are many more examples below that prove my argument
regarding this matter.
Kurds who lost loved ones during Saddam Hussein's
brutal rule today, on 15th December 2004, rushed to
a site in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq that
Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said was a mass grave
containing about 500 bodies. Many Kurds went to the
site at a village near the city of Sulaimaniyah
after building workers noticed human skulls and torn
clothes as they were digging.
Fatima Ali, one of those who rushed to the mass
grave, said Saddam's henchmen had taken her husband
away in 1990 after accusing him of collaborating
with the (peshmerga), or Kurdish freedom fighters.
She was unaware of his fate till today. Whenever she
hear on TV or radio that a mass grave was discovered
anywhere in Iraq, she went and checked it. Today she
found his clothes and his ID in his pocket.
Mohammed Salay’s son was taken away because he was a
deserter in the early 1990s, and the father did not
know about his fate until today that he found his
body among the dead.
Local Kurdish officials said the site appeared to
date from 1990 and included the remains of women and
children. Estimates of the number of those killed or
who disappeared during Saddam's rule range from
300,000 to over a million. The country is littered
with mass graves containing possibly tens of
thousands of bodies dumped by the regime.
Saddam, currently in a US detention centre, faces
seven charges of crimes against humanity including a
1987-1988 offensive that saw Kurdish villages razed
and the gassing of the village of Halabja that left
more than 5000 people dead.
In October, forensic experts digging for evidence
against Saddam carried out their first full
exhumation of a mass grave filled with the skeletons
of scores of women and children, many shot in the
back of the head. The bodies were believed to be
those of hundreds of Kurds killed by the regime in
the late 1980s.
600 leaders from central Iraq's Shiite Muslim
provinces announced plans to begin setting up their
own autonomous region, the meeting was held in the
holy city of Najaf. Representatives agreed to set up
a security committee for their five provinces and a
regional council to stimulate the economy of their
neglected region. Russia will not surrender its
support towards Saddam's dictator for its economical
benefit not for the benefit of Iraqi people.
I believe the new Iraq's provisional constitution
recognises the federal nature of Iraq, most of whose
Kurdish population lives in four Northern provinces
with a large degree of autonomy. Shiites make up
about 60 per cent of the Iraqi population but were
oppressed under the former regime of the dictator
Saddam Hussein. I believe Iraq should be divided
into three main states such as, North of Iraq for
the Kurds, the South side for the Shiites, and the
Centre of Iraq for the Sunnis. This reason being
that the Kurdish people have a population of 40
million and yet do not have their own state, which
should be given to them, after so much suffering and
agony caused by the regime, this is the least they
deserve. The Kurds are entitled to their own
freedom, as an independent state. Separating them
from their hostile neighbors.
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