Southern Kurdistan vs. the Kurds

By: Dhanjit Dhalliwal

dhanjit@hotmail.com

May 3, 2005

Exactly for whom are the Kurdish Iraqi officials working for now?  The Arabs and Turks seem the most likely candidate. If the Kurdish Iraqi officials work to see the disbandment of the PKK within its territories, the Iraqi Kurds are in complicity with the Arabs and Turks to seek the cultural genocide of the larger Mid-Eastern Kurdish people.

All this while, Barzani and Talabani were of the opinion that Saddam Hussein was the enemy of the Kurds but in actual fact, Kurdish enemies remain much closer to home - the Kurdish officials working for the Central Baghdad government.

It is very demoralizing to a people when their own people turn against one another.

The Kurds are in nobody's land because of their own doings and short comings.  Talabani now seems to be enjoying his role of a new found power while secretly seeking to destroy the very fabric of larger Kurdish communities.

The policy of divide and conquer will continue to plague all segments of the Kurdish people unless there is a serious effort to retain Kurdish culture and nationalism.

It is a dark day when such reports abound.  The Arabs and Turks need not do anything - some Kurds will do it for them.

5 million southern Kurds need to rally against the seemingly immoral values of Kurdish leaders fueled by their lust for power. Why is the Arab League more important than the Kurdish Parliament?   Why are Arabic and Turkish racist attitudes towards the Kurds take more precedence than the well being of all Kurds?

To Talabani and the KDP-PUK, Kurds everywhere are your people too.  Why abandon and help Arabs, Persians, and Turks kill them???