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The Honorable George W.
Bush
President of the United States
Washington, DC
An Open Letter to President George W. Bush
Mr. President,
We, the Kurdistan’s People Independence Platform (KPIP),
wish to voice our concern about your method of
spreading freedom and democracy to the Middle
Eastern Regions. Your plans are far from reaching
their goals of freeing the nations in the region and
your policies do not reassure us that you have a
basic understanding of the historical, political and
cultural background of this region. It is most
important that you understand that the Kurds are the
largest nation in the area, comprising 50 million
people who are denied sovereignty by the occupying
countries of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. The
Kurds have always striven for their right to
freedom, independence and self-determination, and
through the years have paid a high price for this
aspiration.
Mr. President, you continue to remind the world of
the rights of your country to defend its homeland
security and national interests. You maintain that
by spreading freedom and democracy you are
protecting your own nation as well as the citizens
of the world. We ask how you can justify this while
you deny the rights and freedoms of fifty million
Kurds? For the first time in recent history, there
exists a unique opportunity for Southern Kurdistan
to realize its own destiny. This right is being
denied by the upcoming election, which will once
again result in political power being based in
Baghdad.
Your fight on world terrorism has achieved limited
success with the dismantling of the Taliban regime
and the deposing of Saddam Hussein. However,
thousands of innocent people have lost their lives
in the process; the region is even more unstable now
than before the liberation and the situation
continues to deteriorate. Not only have you
alienated world opinion, undermined the integrity of
the United Nations but also in effect fuelled the
fires of fundamentalism.
At this point in time, we believe a serious
re-evaluation of your policies in the region is
necessary. South Kurdistan has proven its ability to
govern its own people in the last twelve years.
During the liberation, we cooperated successfully
with the allied forces, and have since maintained
stability and civil order. Surely, this should
reassure you as to our abilities to self-govern. The
fact that you are still imposing a colonial based
ideology, centralizing government in Baghdad, will
surely meet the same pitfalls as the last 85 years
of Iraqi occupation have done. Linking South
Kurdistan to Iraq in the 1920s was a huge mistake of
historical proportions, and the repetition of this
mistake is a direct threat to all Kurdish people and
their right to a true democratic state.
With the dawning of the 21st Century, we implore you
not to deny the Southern Kurdish people of this real
opportunity of determining our own destiny by
forcing us to partake in the upcoming Iraqi
election. History can only repeat itself with the
forced inclusion of our people in a country that
continues to deny our rights to nationhood. The
atrocities such as the chemical attack on Halabja
city, the genocide of more than 200,000 innocent
Kurds, and the destruction of thousands of towns and
villages in Kurdistan must surely be resigned to the
garbage bin of History. Any opportunity for the rise
of despots such as Saddam Hussein must also be
vehemently denied.
We canvas your support for the creation of a
democratic and independent State of Kurdistan, and
trust you realize that the stability of our nation
would only strengthen our ability to cooperate and
support the allied nations in the fight against
world terrorism. Surely, your support of a Kurdish
nation conforms to your belief in the right of
freedom and democracy for the whole world.
Signed by the committee members of the
Kurdistan’s People Independence Platform (KPIP), an
organization that works for the creation of an
independent state for all parts of Kurdistan.
Oslo, Norway, January 11, 2005
sekoikurdstan@walla.com
This open letter has been circulated to media
worldwide.
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