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personality cult in Kurdistan !
By: Dr.N.Hawramany The
Kurdistan observer
In a rare and astonishing move, the president of the Kurdistan democratic party in south Kurdistan ( Synonym: Iraqi Kurdistan), Mr. Masood Barzani, issued a statement to his party newspapers and media , rebuking them for exaggerating his personal role in the achievements of the government of Kurdistan and prohibiting them from publishing his portraits in party newspapers and other party media, without previous permission from his Bureau. Mr. Barzani has reiterated that these media were adamant on publishing his portrait an front pages of party newspapers despite previous instructions from his Bureau discouraging that. In the Middle-Eastren countries, where almost all the countries are plaqued with authoritarian non-democratic regimes, the official and non-official media are state-controlled, the leaders of these countries are depicted in these media on permanent basis, and the media are breathless trying on daily basis, in the newspapers, radio and television to list the historic achievements of these leaders and their ( generosity) and big heart in providing bread to their subjects!!!! No where in the world is personality cult cultivated like Iraq, for decades the poor iraqi people were and still forced to believe in the genial, kind-hearted, historic, and generous leader like Saddam Hussein, who is so kind that he used to give every family one Chicken for Eid-Al-Fitr to show his devotion for iraqi people. I remember a very known joke among Iraqis, that if your T.V.set went out of order, then you don't have to bother about it, you just have to stick the poster of the miracle president on the screen, then you want miss much from the iraqi T.V.programs. Yet it seems that these decades of continuos bombardment with photos and (extra-ordinary) achievements of the iraqi president, has brain- washed not only the arab journalists that still live under Saddam`s rule, but also kurdish journalists who lived now for more than a decade in liberated and free Kurdistan, to the extent that these journalist, followed the footsteps of their colleagues in Baghdad, and tried also to build a personality cult in Kurdistan, by trying to attribute all the achievements of the Kurdistan government only to the president of the party and depicted the photos`s of the leadership in an excessive manner in party media. The reaction of Mr. Barzani is correct and sets a new era in kurdish politics and also sets a rare example in the middle-east and also shows the democratic potential of the people of Kurdistan. I hope that other kurdish parties will follow move taken by Mr. Barzani. Dr.N.Hawramany
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