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Anfal and leaders’ national dignity!
12.9.2006
Article by Qadir Nadir, Translated by Dr Kamal
Mirawdeli
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From: Hawal, Sulaymaniyah, independent weekly
newspaper in Sorani Kurdish, 9.Sep.2006. p 3
Although Anfal was the greatest act of dishonour to
our nation, it has been reduced by Kurdish leaders
to such a degree that to criticize the Kurdish
leaders for insulting [our martyrs] creates more
reaction than the issue of their dishonoring of
Anfal victims. Besides, the anniversary celebrations
they organize for their parties are much more
sumptuous and spectacular than the anniversary of
Anfal and Halabja tragedies.
In our country anything you write and say passes as
truth. What is happening here is unprecedented in
the history of any nation. People with background of
serving the Ba'th party have now become
theoreticians of our national security; people who
participated in Anfal operations have been put in
charge of running the small towns where Anfal
survivors living; a “writer” who sold his pen to
Ba’th and was a Ba'thist agent is now in the
prominent face of the journal of Kurdish government.
I do not believe that the leaders of any other
nations who have suffered genocide such as the Jews,
the Armenians and the Rwanda people, have ever dared
even to give shelter to even one perpetrator of
genocide. It is only in our country that it is so
easy to be a traitor and sell yourself and then find
respect and position. Yes, still we can hear from
the Kurdish officials some nationalist slogans, but
when you look at what is happening in the areas
which suffered Anfal, chemical attacks and
Arabisation, you can realize clearly that what they
say is all lies and deception.
I read a story told by a woman who has survived
Anfal. I could not help weeping passionately when I
read what she said about her child. She says she had
a little child who was ill. She was taking care of
him and hugging him to her chest when an Arab
officer came to take the child away from him. She
hugged him even more closely to her heart. But the
Arab officer kicked her and smacked her hard then
took the child away. She says. Still there is a fire
burning in my liver when I remember his last look
and his last two words: Daye, Daye (Mum, Mum).
I read this and could not stop my tears from flowing
as I could vividly imagine this mother in her night
of loneliness and helplessness. And then, thanks to
our leaders, apart from tears what else can we do?
Those leaders who have been sheltering the Anfalists
for fifteen years, and think that the best projects
for Anfal women is to force them to sell bread and
eggs on the streets. And the government that so far
has changed five cabinets buy has worked more for
the comfort and power of Anfalists than the victims
of Anfal.
Let everyone put herself or himself in the place of
an Anfal woman. Can anyone even endure thinking even
for few minutes? My own child had only a simple
ailment and he called me in this way. This shattered
my soul. Then how could be the state of the mother
who heard her child for last time? How can she live
on? How many terrible stories must she imagine every
day? Has a dog eaten his child after he was killed?
Or …..
When I read this story I cannot help but think of
all those people who shelter Anfalists and ignore
the plight of these women as criminals too.
I am sure the survivors of Anfal have suffered a lot
in the last fifteen years under the Kurdish
political rule. None of the leaders have ever
visited them to tell them: the seats of power and
prosperity we enjoy now are the result of your
sacrifice. That is why we will become the fathers
for your orphans. We will have even more kindness to
them [than to our children] and we will never let
them to be forced to wear torn shoes and ragged
clothes. They must be as happy as our children.
Instead of your [martyred] brothers, we will become
your brothers and friends. We will not allow anyone
to look at you with disrespect. In place of your
fathers, we will make your pains and suffering the
real daily concern of all our party members!
Everyone knows that the process of Anfal and
chemical attacks aimed at the elimination of the
Kurdish people. Yet during 15 years of Kurdish rule
no serious major project for serving and benefiting
Anfal victims have been established although they
enjoy annual revenues of several billion dollars. To
add insult to injury, the perpetrators of Anfal roam
freely ; they have power and they have roles. Also
internationally nothing has been done to promote the
cause of Anfal and bring onto international
political agenda.
Then can we say that these leaders do have any
national honour and dignity in relation to Anfal?
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