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KDP and PUK leaders are choosing to ignore
reality
21.4.2011
By Mufid Abdulla - ekurd.net |
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April
21, 2011
To the two leaders of the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan PUK and Kurdistan Democratic Party KDP;
now is the time to answer the demands of the people.
The actions of these two leaders so far have shown
them as unused to the anger of crowds; with their
unintended consequences and accidental victims. Our
leaders are used to agreement and pacts between
political parties rather than getting in touch with
the uprisings we have now in Sulaimaniyah [Iraqi
Kurdistan] and the surrounding areas. Kurdistan
dispenses for another year of ferocious bloodshed in
the warm spring sunshine and the scenery coloured
with daffodils.
The anti-government demonstrations will be
remembered as famous days in our Kurdish calendar.
Talabani and Barzani are two wicked leaders who are
uniquely unqualified to unite our people because of
their connections with electoral fraud, corruption,
cronyism and caprice; all of which are sapping the
strength of the KRG. They have proved to the whole
nation their limitations to influence the current
situation and their political stance to deadlines.
Nor is there a unified view in Kurdistan amongst the
two leaders about how to achieve the reforms towards
the current situation. With the Gorran Party pushed
as a major presence in the Sulaimaniyah area,www.ekurd.neteveryone
is bracing the changes. The two leaders should
abandon the idea of staying in their parties and
political posts. They are not genuinely capable of
rescuing this nation from the brink of civil war,
particularly if President Talabani wants to continue
occupying his top job in Baghdad which is equal to
the destruction of Kurdish reality and the fact that
his idea of a political realm means the PUK.
Talabani and Barzani will not listen to anybody.
They have ruled our people with an iron fist, and
just bulldozed their way through. They have proven
themselves to be dictators and despots because they
have shed the blood of young people as well as
torturing and killing others who have spoken out in
the demonstrations. My own views and analyses of the
two leaders and their disappearance from Kurdish
politics are that this will put an end to
Kurdistan’s stagnation. The aged leaders are on the
verge of imploding. The consequences of this have
been most evident in Sulaimaniyah. Nor is it
difficult to see why confidence is shattered amongst
the people.
The current political crisis in Kurdistan is by no
means inevitable; there is no question that Barzani
and Talabani and their current and future history
have been compromised. The political powers that
lead do not reflect the balance of power in policy
either, where the opposition have had almost 40
seats in the Kurdistan Parliament. At present, we
have two leaders dictating terms to their followers.
We should not allow ourselves to be aged by the rule
of these two leaders. Otherwise we will become a
victim of their corrupted rule. They have had the
time and their plans have not worked. Almost
everybody in politics thinks privately that these
two leaders are ignorant and are not acting as a
father of this nation. They have shown little
interest in the last month when the opposition
parties have printed a project on reform and changes
in the Kurdistan Regional Government KRG. In terms
of the response of the two leaders saying that they
are not bowing to pressure … they must therefore go
and go now before dragging this nation into a civil
war. Kurdistan has become a disaster because of them
You may reach the author at
mufid@btconnect.com
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