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Gorran holds USA responsible for violence
in Iraqi Kurdistan
20.4.2011
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April
20, 2011
SULAIMANIYAH,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — The major Kurdish
opposition Gorran [Change] Movement said on Monday
that the USA is responsible for the people’s blood
in Sulaimaniyah and Erbil in Kurdistan. Change
Movement pointed that the region’s authorities are
dealing in a hysteric way with the protesters.
Change Movement MP Sardar Abdullah told
Alsumarianews that the “movement holds USA and its
embassy in Baghdad responsible for the violence acts
that are taking place in the streets especially that
US troops are deployed in Sulaimaniyah and Erbil.”
Sulaimaniyah Health Directorate said on Monday that
15 people were entered to hospitals the majority of
whom are security forces. Meanwhile, demonstrations
are still ongoing near Saray Square aka [Azady
square] anti-riots police opened fire on the
demonstrators and clashed with them, the reporter
added.
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Sardar Abdullah, Iraqi MP from Gorran [Change]
movement - Photo: Sbeyi.com |
Dozens of Sulaimaniyah
citizens demonstrated on Sunday in Sara square in
the middle of Sulaimaniyah and clashed with security
forces when they headed towards Asayish Directorate
[Kurdish security and intelligence]. The security
forces opened fire and wounded two demonstrators one
of whom suffers from serious injuries.
“USA alleges that it supports democracy but in
Kurdistan region it supports two regimes”, Abdullah
uttered. “The unlimited support it grants to those
two regimes would complicate the peaceful political
movement the opposition is intending to make”, he
added.
As to the way Security Forces are dealing with
demonstrators in Kurdistan region, Change Movement
MP said that the officials were acting hysterically
on Monday,www.ekurd.netthey
claim while they attack protesters.
“Kurdistan citizens decided to protest and they not
go back to their houses unless authority answers
their demands and if it refuses to do so it would
have to face the people’s insistence,” Gorran MP
said.
Demonstrations in Sulaimaniyah city has entered
their 63rd day today (Wednesday, April 20), thousands of protesters are gathering
daily
in Sulaimaniyah and other parts of Kurdistan against
corruption and the lording over Kurdistan region by
two main parties KDP and PUK. Kurdish
protestors demand the ouster of the local Kurdistan
government KRG, calling for improving services and
living conditions and fighting corruption.
Most of the demonstrators opposed Massoud Barzani, and the ruling
Kurdistan Democratic Party KDP. Seven people
were killed and more than 200 others wounded and 220
more have been arrested in clashes between
demonstrators and Kurdish security forces during a
wave or protests that swept Sulaimaniyah.
The protesters demand the Kurdish government and
parliament resign to give way for “early transparent
elections”. They complain about “monopolizing the
economic and political authority,” by the two major
parties of Kurdistan. Many observe allegiance to
either of the two ruling patties a must to get
employed and hence were deprived of the right. Kurdistan suffers from
electric power deficiency but after almost 20 years
of semi autonomy.
The demonstrators have expressed dissatisfaction for
ignoring their demands to try persons, who they said
had been behind killing and wounding a number of
demonstrators, along with having failed to take
practical steps to achieve political reforms and
putting an end for corruption.
Several people have lost their lives in similar
protests against the Kurdistan regional government
in recent weeks.
For decades, the KDP
of regional president Massoud Barzani and the
PUK of Iraq's President
Jalal Talabani have lorded over the region.
Massoud Barzani and his relatives control a large number of commercial
enterprises in Kurdistan-Iraq, with a gross value of several billion US dollars.
The family is routinely accused of corruption and nepotism by Kurdish media as
well as international observers.
Iraq's Kurdish regional government has near
total autonomy and is funded by a share of the
country's oil revenue. The two parties that share
power each command former guerrilla militias that
have been given the status of regional security
forces.
Earlier Massoud Barzani told an Italian newspaper that if
50,000 Kurdistan citizens require him to step down,
he will. Afterwards, the opposition parties led a
signature campaign and reportedly collected even
more votes to oust the president. However, the
fate of those signatures is
still unclear.
Iraqi Kurdistan's regional government has near
autonomy and is funded by a share of the country's
oil revenue. The two parties that share power each
command former guerrilla militias that have been
given the status of regional security forces.
Compiled by ekurd.net from agency reports
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