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Turkish, Iranian aerial bombings inflict
heavy civilians’ casualties in Kurdistan
21.6.2010
By Baqi Barzani, for ekurd.net |
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June
21, 2010
With no respect to international Conventions, for
years, Turkey and Iran continue to hysterically
bombard South Kurdistan (Iraq) in a wasted effort to
provisionally subdue their own sizable Kurdish
population. Neither the unfounded Iraqi government
nor the United Nation body expressed any
observations in regard to the ominously rising
civilians’ death toll.
The twenty five million Kurds in Turkey and the ten
million Kurds residing in Iran are struggling for
their most fundamental legitimate and inherent
rights. It is worth citing here that they are
relentlessly discriminated, ostracized, marginalized
owing to their ethnicity and fears by accommodating
nations that dismounting true democracy may lead to
economic decentralization, liberation and political
empowerment of minority groups. The model of South
Kurdistan (Iraq) is shaking the foundation of Ankara
and Tehran.
Today, Turkish jet aircrafts and Iranian tanks
flouted all sovereignty laws by penetrating more
than twenty five kilometers in Kurdish autonomous
region and withdrew their forces after inflicting
heavy civilian casualties. Members of Turkish
Special Forces unit reduced two Kurdish villages to
rubble in South Kurdistan (Iraq), set them alight
and menaced to kill Kurdish villagers if they do not
cooperate and share information about the hideouts
of PKK [Turkey Kurdistan Workers' Party], PJAK
[Iranian Party for Free Life in Kurdistan] fighters.
Inhabitants of villages were forced to flee. In
order to spare the lives of their family members
from the indiscriminate killings, they were obliged
to desert their possessions behind. According to
some reliable statistics, thirty five civilians,
mostly children and women, were killed only in the
last two days.
After decades of habitation demolition and
smoldering in flames inflicted by former Iraqi
dictator (Saddam), Kurdistan barely could dispose of
some of its environmental, air and water
contamination issues that mainly stemmed from the
eight- year long chemically-waged Iran-Iraq war.
Apart from the tens of thousands of Kurdish victims
still subsisting with permanent mental disability,
physical incapacitation, incurable burns and
paralysis symptoms, the enormity of damage is so
grave that it might last decades for Kurdistan to
recuperate. Part of Kurdish Regional Government
reconstruction efforts has been investing heavy
funds in trying to revitalize the perished wild
life, farm plantations. However, the wreaked damages
are estimated in hundred of billions, something
absolutely out of KRG fiscal capacity.
Since 2003, South Kurdistan (Iraq) has relatively
enjoyed a laconic period of quietness and stability.
Mournfully, regional aggressor states (Turkey and
Iran) are threatening Kurdistan with their
expansionist ambitions and struggling to turn it
into a proxy battle field for their own economic,
political, military ends. Turkish and Iranian war
planes are dropping poisonous and chemical bombs on
green Kurdish mountains to annihilate any sign of
human existence. From the very inception of US
military liberation,www.ekurd.netregional
countries have never held good intention in aiding
neighboring Iraqi to advance. South Kurdistan (Iraq)
is key to achieving victory for US forces in war on
terrorism, especially now that Turkey is regressing
toward Islamic world and attempting to bolster ties
with Axis of Evil. Turkish or Iranian jets can not
intrude Iraqi airspace without being given green
light. Neighboring Iraq and Turkey are plundering
Iraqi human, territorial and economic resources. If
not curbed, It is not far to predict that an
Iranian-style Shiite uprising may emerge in South of
Iraq at any split second.
When a nation comes under attack, as the ultimate
resort, especially after all diplomatic efforts are
exhausted; it is generally the principle for armed
forces to intervene to contain the bedlam. For
years, our defenseless nation is being intimidated
by a set of hostile neighboring states that overtly
deny our existential right. The spokesman for
Peshmarga forces has not offered any concrete
briefing to public, our Peshmarga forces have not
portrayed any reaction to such offensive
aggressions, and we are all in anticipation of our
commander-in-chief i.e. the president of Kurdish
Regional Government to issue a directive? If the
government is unable to curb such injustices, it is
the general public who should voice their objection
by resorting to non-violent means.
The Kurdish genocide has not come to an end. It
lingers on. The only disparity is that some
repudiated it formerly due to their lack of
knowledge. And now it is being repudiated with full
public knowledge.
Baqi Barzani is a
Kurdish citizen of Sought Kurdistan [Iraq]. He
advocates the notion of " establishing an
independent Kurdish state". He contributes to
various Kurdish media outlets, especially ekurd.net.
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