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The mockery of changing the Iraqi flag
3.2.2008
By Dr Hoshiar Molod, Saudi Arabia
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February 3, 2008
Dr Hoshiar Molod, (eKurd.net), -- Iraq is passing
through a very intricate time. Every part of Iraq
including Kurdistan could be described as a time
bomb, which is expected to explode at any second. In
the north Kurds are struggling among the brutality
of the Turkish government that is attacking
civilian, the ignorance of some Arab nationalists
who praise and glorify the previous regime’s
massacre of innocent Kurds, and the corrupted Iraqi
systems. In the south, people have similar struggles
as well as suffering from lack of clean water,
conflicts between Arab clans over power, and being
threatened or even killed on the basis of their
identity.
However the main problem is based in the middle of
Iraq, especially in Baghdad, where the parliament is
located. The situation in Baghdad is very hostile
with terrorist organizations, Shiite militias and
Sunni extremists fighting in the streets, while
inside the green zoon,www.ekurd.net
Kurds, Shiite and Sunni
politicians are debating inside the parliament. It
is infrequent that one of those groups puts forward
a project plan that benefits all of the Iraqi
peoples without encompassing a hidden agenda.
The Iraqi politicians lack the motivation to employ
their power to better the life of the Iraqi people
and sacrifice some of their personal agenda.
I would like to stop on one of the agendas that was
debated last week by the elite politicians inside
the parliament. It was the mockery of changing the
Iraqi flag. The problem of the flag was initiated
when the Kurdistan regional government decided to
take the Iraqi flag down in the Kurdistan region,
because it resembles the former dictator. But the
flag is not the only resemblance of the former
regime in Kurdistan. After the fall of Baghdad,
Kurdistan became a safe haven for the Kurdish Baths
party members, whose hands are red with the Kurdish
bloods. The criminals of the Baths party members are
the resemblance of the previous regime and should be
trailed immediately. The flag is not such an
immediate threat that its change had to be
prioritized over the trial of the war criminals.
If asked, the Kurds everywhere would prefer the
execution of the war criminals that are already
found guilty of the Kurdish genocide and being
sentenced by the Iraqi court over the change of the
Iraqi flag.
The parliament decided to change the Iraqi flag, but
the new flag didn’t sort out the diversion amongst
Iraqi politicians, it actually worsened the problem.
Initially the flag was not flying in Kurdistan, but
now Kurdistan have no excuse not to fly the new
flag, even though it doesn’t symbolize the Kurds in
any way as a second nation in Iraq, which is in
contrast to the Iraqi constitution1.
Kurdistan will fly the new flag, but there are
different groups that are threatening not to fly it
and instead they fly the old flag.
A big “Well done!” to the politicians in Iraq, they
went to the parliament to sort the problem of
Kurdistan regional government not flying the Iraqi
flag, but instead Iraq end up with two Iraqi flags.
The new flag will not bring the electricity to
Kurdistan, it will not change the views of the rest
of Iraq about Kurdistan and more importantly,www.ekurd.net
it will not stop the
Turkish fighter planes dropping bombs on the Kurdish
villages. That means the whole process of changing
the Iraqi flag was pointless at the moment. Don’t
get me wrong I am one of those people who support
Iraq’s move away from the anti human philosophy of
Saddam’s era and become a civilized and democratic
country in its approach towards the people of Iraq
and the rest of the world.
Iraqi politicians like the rest of Iraq want to get
rid of the former regime’s resemblance, but in a
strange move the presidential council interfered
with the court’s decision in executing the former
government’s minister of defense, Sultan Hashim, who
found guilty by the court.
This is one of the reasons that the people of Iraq
are confused about the politician’s own agenda.
Have anyone in the parliament debated that the
presidential council’s interference with the
judiciary system is in contrast with the rights and
freedoms commandment2 in the Iraqi constitution.
At last, it is ironic that the only alteration made
by the former Iraqi President, Saddam Husain, to the
Iraqi flag was the introduction of the words “Allah
Akbar”, God greatest, which hasn’t been removed from
the new flag.
Endnotes:
1. Iraqi constitution, chapter one (Basic
principles), Article (12).
2. Iraqi constitution, chapter two (Rights and
freedoms), part one: Rights first: Civil and
political rights, article (19).
Dr Hoshiar Molod is a freelance Kurdish writer
lives in Saudi Arabia. You may reach the author via
email at: hoshiaryousif (at) hotmail.com
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