A
pursuer of the Kurdish affairs observes that Kurds were always victims of the
international policy definitely Americans in the last decades.
Since 1916 USA hasn’t only obstructed their struggle for
freedom but supported the states that control their territories.
At this
time when the US government reviewed its unsuccessful policy in Iraq, it
entrusted the Baker-Hamilton commission to meet different Iraqi parties so as to
find an exit from their crisis. The commission without meeting the Kurds
suggested a number of unjust and conflicting proposals against the Kurds, USA: s
nearest ally, who supported them strongly in their campaign against terrorism in
Iraq.
Even if Baker-Hamilton report has not yet been put into
practice by the present American government, its emergence in this form shows us
the size of the dangerous conspiracy against the Kurds. The report will be
presented in USA: s special agenda and taken as a resource from a commission of
experts and politicians to be implemented later.
The report, instead of planning for a deeply rooted democracy
and federation in Iraq to implement the aspired target of the military operation
against the post regime, takes terrorists and regional states’ fears into
consideration and totally neglects the Kurds’ anxieties. In other words, it
recompenses the criminals just to raise their hands from the American soldiers
and at the same time punishes the Kurdish partner.
Mr. Baker tried in his report to stab the Kurds in the back.
At the same time he tried to delude them by his telephone call with President
Masaud Bazani confirming Kurdistans requirements in his report. Shortly,
everything rose to the surface. Barzani’s reaction was quick. He expressed his
intense worries and refusal to accept the draft texts.
We were
shocked by the report because Mr. Baker himself had witnessed Kurds’ miseries on
the tops of their mountains at the Iraqi-Turkish borders in their mass
emigration! President Bush, the father, had sent him in spring 1991, after a
strong public pressure, to improve Kurdish situation immediately after the
Americans had disappointed them.
The Kurds took Mr Baker’s attendance among them as an
eyewitness for their disaster so that he might compensate them. He was thought
to be a man for peace. We inquire:
Was that horrible scene, which Mr. Baker himself conceded was
terrible, not enough to move him?
Even you Baker…? Why did you follow the treacherous cause and
stab us in the back? What had diverted you from the truth? You were highly
appreciated by us for your attendance among us for several minutes in one of our
earlier countless disasters. Whom could we fetch now to speak the truth and
support us in international circles after the eyewitnesses of our worst
wretchedness had turned against us?
The Kurds must be aware of such weak foreign diplomats and
should not trust them again! Let a determined public pressure and a
recommendation for more diplomatic attempts be made. The Kurds should quickly
plan to send a highly placed representative to USA to negotiate with the
decision makers so that they may guarantee the Kurdish rights in a democratic
and federal Iraq and get guarantor at least not to implement Baker-Hamilton
report under any circumstances.
