Kurdistan president fiercely criticizes
Kurdish opposition party
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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.
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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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