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Kurds Must Be More Determined To Resist
Baker-Hamilton Report
By: Dr.Nazhad Khasraw
Hawramany
Dec 29, 2006
The hostile anti-Kurdish , anti-federal
recommendations of the engineers of of Iraq Study Group ( i.e. Baker-Hamilton
report) came as a shock to the people of Kurdistan, not only because the report
was drafted without prior consultations with Kurdish pleaders who are playing a
pivotal role in Iraqi politics after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein but because
of its insensitivity towards the feelings of the people of Kurdistan and Iraq.
Any observer who knows Iraqi history do smell the same recipe of betrayal which
was committed towards people of Iraq and Kurdistan during the 1991 uprising
following the defeat of Saddam Hussein in Kuwait, for the perpetrators are the
same people, it was James Baker the American secretary of State then who
engineered the survival of Saddam Hussein then, causing the death of hundreds of
thousands of Kurds and Shiites at the hands of Iraqi republican Guards of Saddam
Hussein.
If this report, god forbid, ever to be
implemented, particularly postponement of article 140 concerning fate of
Kirkuk, it will certainly lead Iraq into full blown civil war, for the Kurds
must make it clear that they will resist that by all means, their full autonomy
over Kurdish majority areas, including Kirkuk, is their price for staying
within Iraq. The report has bowed to the pressure of Turkish lobby in the united
States, when it adopted fully the turkish attitude towards Kurdish affairs, If
Erdogan himself were given the chance to write down any recommendations about
Kurdistan, he certainly wouldn't have written it better in antagonizing Kurdish
legitimate rights in Iraq.
the Kurdish leaders must not cow in to the
proposterous recommendations of this miserable report, and start be more vocal
in their opposition to any implementation of the recommendations which undermine
the interests of people of Kurdistan, they should reject loudly recommendations
to centralize the power in Baghdad, they should reject any freezing or
disfunctioning of constitution, they should reject any recommendations to
sabotage the federal system of governance and they should consider the
postponement of article 140 about Kirkuk as casus belli. It's disheartening for
Kurds to see how ignorant the Americans are about their feelings towards Kirkuk,
federalism and control of their destiny.
