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In a
televised interview with the Al-Arabiya TV, on
Tuesday October 5,2004 , the Iraqi President, Ghazi
al Yawar, denounced the pro-referendum movement in
Kurdistan by describing it as “a national betrayal’.
He also added “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."
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We would like Kurdish patriots everywhere to learn
that Kurdistan Referendum Movement strongly
denounces al Yawar’s statement. We also conclude
that the thinking behind his words is so clear as to
spare our effort to read in between the lines. While
al Yawar claims that he estimates freedom of
expression, he does not see that the Kurdish people
are entitled to this freedom.
While al-Yawar in many of his statements talks about
democracy, he is adamant that this democracy does
not include any democratic choice by the Kurdish
people to determine their future in their own
homeland “Kurdistan”. Furthermore, al Yawar has no
hesitation in threatening the Kurds with crushing
force. At the capacity of a lame-duck president, al
Yawar does not seem to think of any prompting
political, diplomatic and moral considerations to
restrain his inherent racist views. He openly
expresses his racist hatred of the Kurds, as
imbedded in his true Arab fascist nature
(unwillingness to recognize any meaningful form of
democracy, in which the right of people to self
determination is respected and exercised.)
Yawar’s statements to al-Arabiyya satellite TV, is
evident to his willingness to adopt a true racist
Saddamist Arabist discourse. By virtue of facts and
reality, the Kurds are very familiar with such a
discourse and need no guessing to what they could
expect. Only in the last several days, 12 more mass
graves of Anfaled Kurds were discovered in the west
of Mosul. Most of which contain only women and
children, including babies and the unborn fetuses.
The remains of the young children showed they were
holding their toys and clasping to their mothers’
arms. At the same time the murder and beheading of
innocent civilian Kurds by Arab fascists is
continuing in all the Arab areas of Iraq, all the
way from Baquba to Mosul.
While the Kurdistan Referendum Movement strongly
condemns al Yawar, along with the racist Arab
discourse and mentality, we at the same time
strongly deplore the passivity and the failure of
the leaderships of both Kurdistan Democratic Party
and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan for not promptly
responding to al Yawar’s outrageous, threatening and
insulting remarks against the Kurdish nation. We
tend to believe that al Yawar’s views are enhanced
by the Kurdish leadership’s treacherous policies of
sell out, brainwashing our people and setting
themselves as the saviors of Iraq for the sole
interests of Arab fascism.
Hence, the Kurdistan Referendum Movement calls upon
the Kurdish masses to be vigilant, united and
determined to exercise their civil democratic rights
in a peaceful way first and foremost the right to
have a UN-sponsored referendum about the
independence of South Kurdistan.
KURDISTAN REFERENDUM MOVEMENT/ INTERNATIONAL
COMMITTEE
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