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Kurdistan president fiercely criticizes Kurdish opposition party  24.2.2010   

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February 24, 2010

ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — Massoud Barzani, president of the autonomous Kurdistan region fiercely criticized the Kurdish opposition Change (Gorran) for calling the Kurdish Regional Guard (Peshmergas) a militia. “Those who today have the guts to denigrate the name of the Peshmergas, will tomorrow also do this with the names of martyrs.”

According to Barzani there is no place for people in Kurdistan who don’t have respect for the Kurdish security forces. The regional president said that he could live with Iraqi chauvinists calling the Kurdish forces bad names,
www.ekurd.netbut ‘unfortunately there are now voices in the Kurdistan region and in the Kurdish parliament that call the Kurdish forces militias and doubt the legality of these troops.”

Kurdish MP Adnan Osman said the Peshmerga forces are militias, because they are controlled by the political parties. On Tuesday hundreds of Peshmergas demonstrated in front of the Kurdish parliament and demanded the removal of the MP.                       

Massoud Barzani, the President of the autonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq's north criticizes Kurdish opposition party
Gorran didn’t want to take distance from their declarations and described the reactions as a campaign strategy of the Kurdistan Alliance, which consists of the ruling parties KDP and PUK, the main rival for Gorran in the Iraqi elections upcoming 7 March.

Gorran emerged in regional elections last year as a rival to the two main ruling Kurdish parties and won 25 seats in the parliament. Gorran is challenging Talabani's PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan), and the KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party), of regional president Massoud Barzani and accuses the parties of corruption. It’s headed by the former senior PUK-leader Nawshirwan Mustafa, who was Talabani’s deputy until 2007.
 
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