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Kurds and Shias Should Return to Original
Homes- Media monitor
9.7.2005
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Opinion: Kurds and Shias Should Return to
Original Homes
By Faryad Rawendoozi (Al-Mutamar, 6 July 2005)
The ethnic cleansing practiced against the Kurds was
aimed at displacing them from their homeland
(Kurdistan) in order to change the geographical and
national nature. It was meant to widen the
geographical area of Arabic Iraq at the expense of
the Kurdish Iraqi area. They practiced this policy
to protect the national and economical security of
the Arab homeland, as they alleged. This policy,
which they called "Arabization," did not include
Kirkuk only but also Erbil and the Kurdish areas of
Mosul and Diyala. The cleansing practiced against
the Shia in the south is quite different from that
practiced against the Kurds, though they are both
inhuman. The latter changed the national and
geographical atmospheres of the Kurdistan area. To
treat the cleansing of the Shia Arabs is to have
them returning back to their original houses and
compensate them for their losses. This will reflect
positively on the treatment of the cleansing of
Kurds, who will get their rights back from the Arabs
who were used by the former regime to replace Kurds
in the Kurdish areas. This will be good for Kurds
and Arabs to have them back to their original
places.
(Al-Mutamar is issued daily by the Iraqi National
Congress.)
Opinion: Saddam Planned to Confront Iraqis, Not
Foreigners
By Jumaa al-Hilfi (Al-Sabah, 4 July 4 2005)
The weapons and ammunitions found in the houses,
holes, shelters, orchards and ditches are large
enough to supply a great army in a battle. Saddam
Hussein and his supporters and special army left
Baghdad when confronted by the foreign forces. Why
then and for what he buried these quantities of
weapons under ground? There is only one answer to
this question. Saddam did not plan to confront the
foreign forces or to defend Iraq. He planned to
confront those who would receive the power instead
of him or the Iraqi political forces rather than the
foreign forces. This can be proved by the total of
Iraqis killed or wounded in insurgent attacks in
comparison to the total casualties of foreigners.
What he planned with his darkness lovers is being
carried out now. Many Iraqis are being killed,
preventing them from having a future. Can the
supporters of the detained dictator stop the wheel
of history? Iraqis gave their answer by choosing
freedom and insistence to build their democratic
society. The political and constitutional process
will act like a rain to wash the homeland and clean
it from the dictator and his followers.
(Al-Sabah is a daily independent publicly owned
newspaper.)
Editorial: With Insurgent Talks, Iraqi Bloodshed
Must be Remembered
By Editing Board (Al-Sabah, 7 July 2005)
Some think it is important to hold talks with the
insurgents to defeat them. Others think it is only
tactical steps used by the Americans since last
February. President Jalal Talabani said it is an
American issue to hold negotiations with the
insurgents; it has nothing to do with the Iraqi
government. The Iraqi political street, with its
different spectrums, refuses the idea of negotiating
with the insurgents because these groups try to stop
the new political project based on peaceful dialogue
to establish a state of law and order. There is no
clear cut difference between those who alleged
opposing the occupiers and those killing innocent
people and destroying the infrastructure to seek
revenge on those free Iraqis who toppled the statue
and chose the road of freedom. To hold talks with
the armed groups, we have to bear in mind the
Iraqis' bloodshed and the intentions of the armed
groups that urge them for the negotiation.
(Al-Sabah is a daily independent publicly owned
newspaper.)
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