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Kurdish discussions on Washington Post
6.10.2006
By Vladimir van Wilgenburg, Journalist, Netherlands
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Friday, October 06, 2006
Recently Washington Post opened “PostGlobal“, an
online discussion of international issues at. I know
Washington Post mostly for bad information about
Kurds and Turkish columns about Kurdish issues.
But it seems, that Washington Post now also gives
attention to the Kurdish point of view. Although I
also have to confess, that last year Washington Post
published the column “Kurdish Vision of Iraq”. This
was written by the Kurdish president of the
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
The
Washington Post international discussion forum
moderated by David Ingatius and Fareed Zakaria has
posed the following question, to which the Kurd Baqi
Barzani among many other leading global commentators
have responded: |
Vladimir van Wilgenburg, Journalist, Netherlands |
Despite U.S. efforts to forge a "unity" government
in Iraq, sectarian violence there continues at a
frightening level. Iraqis are already separating
into different ethnic cantons as neighborhoods are
"cleansed" by Shiite death squads and Sunni
insurgents.
Given the mess in Iraq, should the U.S. move toward
"federalism plus" -- a plan that devolves power into
Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish regions? What would be the
consequences of such a de-facto partition for the
rest of the Middle East?
I think most Kurds will agree with the opinion of
Peter Galbriath:
Divided, Iraq Can Stand! They are pro-partition
or for "federalism plus".
Another interesting and more historical discussion
is the discussion forum:
Republic of Kurdistan.
According to my friend Hassan Qazi, this discussion
has unpublished information about the Mahabad
republic in English.
The discussion is lead by the Kurdish professors
Amir Hassanpour, Goran Nowicki, and Burhan Elturan.
Experts and Kurdish intellectuals also give
interesting comments on this issue.
I advise anyone interested in the Kurdish issue, to
take a look.
http://vladimirkurdistan.blogspot.com
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