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While Iraqis protested the US occupation,
Kurds celebrate the liberation
10.4.2007 |
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April
10, 2007
Erbil, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- While
hundreds of thousands of Iraqis protested the US
occupation in Najaf, in Kurdistan region of Iraq,
celebrations were held Monday on the occasion of the
fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad and the
regime of Saddam Hussein, al-Jiran reports in
Arabic.
Mahmoud 'Uthman, a Kurdish deputy in the Iraqi
parliament, said that the fall of the old regime was
a positive thing for the Kurdish people because the
regime was brutal and bloody and dangerous for the
Iraqi people in general and the people of Kurdistan
in particular.
He added that the Kurds had ralized many gains, the
first of which was the liberation of the Kurdish
people from the danger of Saddam Hussein, and
ridding Iraq of the mass violence of the old regime.
The influential politician added that there had
never been a clear American policy after the fall of
the old regime, and the Americans took on the
characteristics of occupiers, saying this was one
reason that Iraqis had not profited from the
situation as they should have.
April 9th has been designated an official holiday in
the Kurdistan region, including its businesses,
government offices, schools, universities and
hospitals.
The region celebrated the day with a 10k footrace in
which hundreds of youth participated. The race was
held in a park in Erbil built on the ruins of an
Iraqi army base dating back to the former regime.
One 38-year old Kurd said that the occasion did not
mean that “the struggle does not continue, because
there are still political forces in Iraq that do not
want to permit us all of our rights.”
From another perspective, the Da'wa Party, also
mounted a celebration Monday. The education
minister, Khodayr al Khaza'i, a Da'wa member, said
during a gathering in al-Haboubi Square in Nasiriya,
that April 9 represented the liberation of the will
of the Iraqi people, calling for the strengthening
of the gains realized by the Iraqis after the fall
of the old regime.
The Da'wa party was a clandestine and exiled
opposition party during the Saddam years, membership
in which was punishable by death.
Both the Da'wa party and the Kurdish bloc are
closely aligned with the new Iraqi regime. The last
two prime ministers have come from the Da'wa party.
It may be for this reason that neither party’s
representatives acknowledged Iraq’s serious
difficulties at the fourth anniversary of the fall
of the old regime, at least not according to al-Jiran's
report.
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