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National Holiday for Uprisings (Raparin/Intifida)
17.3.2012
By Omar Sindi
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March 17, 2012
There have been broad discussions among the public
and the politicians in the Autonomous Region of
Kurdistan Regional Government to proclaim March
6,1991 as an official holiday.
However, the proclamation uprising of September
11,1961 should also be recognized as well ;when the
first kick off started in the city of Zakho and
along with many other places throughout Southern
Kurdistan ( Iraqi Kurdistan) to kick out the
occupational soldiers of Abdel al- Karim Qasim who
dishonored his words with the Kurdish people under
the leadership of general Mustafa Barzani.
Mr. Qasim said that the Kurds and Arabs are equal
partners with the new Iraqi society; people wanted
consociationalism not a downtrodden government .
Late general Barzani was a visionary man with peace
for all Iraqi people, in particular for Kurdish
people, however Mr. Qasim left no room for
negotiation; “Barzani was forced to deliver an
ultimatum to Qasim in August 1961,demanding an end
to authoritarian rule, recognition of Kurdish
autonomy and restoration of democratic liberties .”
After the liberation of Zakho’s City, Qasim’s regime
unleashed all of his arsons including
internationally forbidden weapons on the surrounding
areas on defenseless people to retake the lost areas
of Kurdistan from freedom fighters, but the people
were determined to defend the gained freedom,
because Qasim and his regime were ready to retake
the city at any price, to kill too many innocents
people; therefore the Peshmarga( freedom fighter)
left the city to avoid the destruction and spare
innocent lives. However; the Peshmarga continued
fighting in the area with the Iraqi army in spite of
their advantage in military equipments .
On October 1962, in Penjwin city, the Qasim regime
cringed many times and failed to retake Penjwin from
the Peshmarga despite their superiority in
equipments and manpower; at the end of October the
Qasim‘s soldiers gathered innocent people from
surrounding villages of Penjwin and the soldiers
lashed the children to the front of their military
vehicles and pushed women in front of soldiers at
gun point toward the city,www.ekurd.net
whence the Peshmarga saw that cowardly acts by the
soldiers then the peshmarga left the city, because
they did not want to kill innocent people especially
children .
The repressive political environment of the various
Iraqi regimes opted catastrophic strategy with self
delusional fantasy; this type of grandeurs fantasy
has brought misery, disparity, disappointment and
bloodshed upon all ordinary Iraqi people ,and the
harshest of all were bestowed upon the Kurdish
people.
Without the Kurds immolation, gallantry and valor
during arduous times, it would have been impossible
as a nation to exist.
Perhaps both historic occasions are out to be
proclaimed as National Holidays, to honor those who
dared to pay the ultimate price for the sake of
democracy, freedom, and liberty for the Kurdish
people.
Omar Sindi - United States, a regular
contributing writer for ekurd.net
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