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Iraqi President, Ghazi al Yawar, denounced on
Tuesday [5 October 2004] the pro-referendum voices
in Kurdish administrated Iraq calling it "national
betrayal' from the Kurds. " Iraq is a free country
where the freedom of expression is estimated, but
this does not mean that some people would try to
speak about disintegrating Iraq. This is not
something we could accept and we will counter this
with all our power," Mr Yawar said in a televised
interview with the Al-Arabiya TV.
The Iraqi President, who recently married a Kurdish
politician and a senior member of KDP, has been
notably careful regarding the Kurdish quest often
praising the Kurds as one of the strongest
opposition groups fighting former regime. The
Kurdish group within the abrogated Iraqi National
Council, favored Mr Yawar to Addnan Bachachi another
candidate for the post of the President and KDP
especially made it almost a condition that Mr Yawar
become the interim President.
The Iraqi President dismissed the speculations
regarding Iraq breaking up into three countries as
nonsense saying that Iraq has been a unified country
for centuries and it will remain unified for ever.
End.
This report gives us a bit of important background
as to how Al-Yawar became president. The support of
the Kurdish members especially KDP was crucial in
making him win the position. The apparent reason of
the Kurds support for him was that he was not as
Arab nationalist as Adnan Bachachi. But putting it
in the context, this was a ridiculous argument on
two grounds: First: Kurdish parties have never
judged people and made decisions to support or
oppose them on the grounds whether they anti or
pro-Kurdish. As a general rule, they have always
worked as an appendix if not outright agent of
anti-Kurd persons and powers. Their story with
Saddam, Hafiz and Bashar al-Asad, Khomaini and
Khamaini, Turkish generals and fascists and Arab
Iraqi opposition groups is too notorious to need
reminding. On the other hand, no one knew enough
about al-Yawar to judge his ideas and intentions.
KDP report says once he praised the Kurds for
fighting against the former regime. But this can
mean fighting for replacing Saddam with Al-Yawar.
Full stop. Anyway that is what so-called Kurdish
leaders have told the world. They want not a free
Kurdistan but a new Iraq in which they beg not to be
second class citizens. And that is what al-Yawar
exactly means when he threatens the Kurdistan
Referendum Movement. Ideologically, there are not
much dividing line between what al-Yawar plainly
says and what so-called leaders daily do. Thus they
went to Baghdad willfully as obedient salves to
resurrect the demolished colonialist Iraq and they
happily chose al-Yawar as their new master. To crown
this achievement KDP even offered its high-flier
female technocrat Nasrin Barwari as to Yawar to be
used as a third-hand gift.
So what does Yawar's threat against Referendum and
through it all freedom-loving Kurds mean?
Yawar is now a feeble negligible lame-duck
President. In spite of that he does not think of any
political, diplomatic, moral and even tribal
considerations, as a new husband of a political
Kurdish woman, to restraint his essentially racist
views, He frankly expresses his racist hatred of
Kurds, his true Arab fascist a nature which does not
recognize any form of democracy or freedom of
expression, nor the rights of people to self
determination and democratic determination of their
future.
Yawar's statements to al-Arabiyya satellite TV, are
true racist Saddamite Arabist discourse. However, we
must be grateful to Yawar for being so foolhardily
frank in expressing his racism. This along with
daily beheadings and killings of Kurds by fascist
Arabs and the discovery of yet a new chain of mass
graves containing born and unborn babies, women and
their hoops, children and their toys, must be a
further and final warning to all the Kurdish people
including their treacherous leaders, that only
independence can guarantee future safety and
security of our children.
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