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The Politics of Post-Modern Genocide in Turkey

By Luqman Barwari
12/3/2007
lbarwari@yahoo.com

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      After reading the recent article by Mr. Salater Bakhtavar in Iranian.com, it appears from his article in reference to the recent conflict and the Turkish aggression against Southern Kurdistan (North Iraq), is merely a response to terrorism, and maintaining the stability in the region. I believe Mr. Bakhtavar has been certainly mis-informed, or this is just another attempt by his narrow minded propaganda to twist the truth. Therefore, I thought I should response to Mr. Baktavar and state some facts about the “Poltics of Post-Modern Geneocide in Turkey”
There is a constant fear that the justified resistance of Kurds there will lead to the creation of a state not only for Iraqi Kurds, but also for Kurds in Turkey and elsewhere. This is why Turkey lobbies the U.S. so hard.
Turkey’s history of ethnic cleansing and genocide is rooted in its particular brand of virulent and racially supremacist nationalism. When Mustafa Kemal Attaturk founded the modern nation of Turkey, he did so on the foundation of genocide against Armenians—a genocide that is yet to be recognized by much of global public opinion or the U.S. Congress. In addition to Armenians, almost millions Kurds were deported or massacred at that time, and more than a million Greeks were also forced from Anatolia, in a broad attempt to create a racially “pure” Turkish society. Nevertheless, Kurdish leaders and fighters were instrumental in securing Turkey’s borders from various would-be occupiers. Their reward for this help was the mass execution of its leadership, reneged promises, and ongoing repression. After the Armenians, Kurds became the primary targets of nationalist terror, as their “stubbornly” held separate identity posed a threat to Turkey’s vision of a monocultural secular society.
The ensuing decades saw dozens of uprisings, all of which were ruthlessly crushed, until PKK guerillas asserted themselves in the mountains and engaged with the Turkish army in the 1980s. This cycle reached its apex in the 1980s and 1990s, when Turkey’s scorched earth policy destroyed more than 4,000 villages, forcing more than 4 million Kurds into internal exile or permanent refugee status. The penalty for returning to villages remains torture or death, as recent killings by Turkish military and paramilitary forces have shown. In Turkey, Kurds are prevented from using their language, naming their children Kurdish names, wearing Kurdish colors— even the traffic lights have been changed to red, yellow, and blue because red, yellow, and green are the Kurdish national colors.
Turkey’s efforts to annihilate Kurdish culture—it refers to Kurds only as “mountain Turks”—has been repudiated by all of the world’s respected human rights organizations, notably Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and even the U.S. State Department Reports on Human Rights, as well as by numerous European Union representatives and bodies. Turkey’s efforts, including the mass transfer of Kurdish children to boarding schools where they are “decultured” and raised as Turks, constitute in the language of the Geneva Conventions Against Genocide acts of cultural genocide aimed at reduction or elimination of a distinct group of people.
When one analyzes the situation of the Northern Kurdistan through description of genocide, most of these aspects can be found since 1923:
1.    In the political field: Kurdish self-government systems were destroyed in the 1920s and 1930s by deporting local leaders to western Turkey.
2.    In the social field: The social cohesion of Kurdish society has been broken and its normal development hindered by killing and removing important groups such as intellectuals and religious and political leaders. After some quite decades since the 1950s operations intensified in the 1990s.
3.    In the cultural field: Kurdish schools, associations, publications, and religious fraternities were closed in 1924 and the use of the Kurdish language in public places was forbidden until 1991.
4.    In the economical field: While western Turkey has been developing towards a modern economy, production in the Kurdish provinces is still based on feudal land ownership and the same farming methods that were used during the middle ages. There is almost no industry; the Kurdish area is like a colony, which produces raw materials and a labor force for western Turkey.
5.    In the biological field: The Turkish state implemented its policy of depopulation on a massive scale. This intensified during the 1990s.
6.    In the field of physical existence: During the 1990s morbidity and mortality increased among the displace Kurds, but the Turkish government is still denying international humanitarian organizations permission to deliver food and medicine to them.
In 1977, Mehdi Zana, a courageous Kurdish leader who emerged from the grassroots was elected Mayor of Diyarbakir, the largest city and capital of Turkish Kurdistan. He was soon arrested and imprisoned for more than a decade and suffered unspeakable torture and humiliation that will affect him for the rest of his life; he now lives in exile from his native land.
Similarly, Leyla Zana (Mehdi is her husband) became increasingly radicalized when she and five other Kurds were elected to Parliament in 1991, but soon after were stripped of parliamentary immunity and arrested. Their “crimes,” also under the label of “separatism,” consisted of wearing Kurdish colors in their hair, speaking the Kurdish language, and testifying before Europe and the U.S. Congress about human rights abuses in Kurdish areas, where they served 10 years.
Whatever happens to the Kurds at this most hopeful and most perilous moment, the history of suffering must eventually be addressed. Kurds often discuss their position in relation to that of the Palestinians, saying things like: “When the Palestinian question is answered, then it will be the Kurdish turn.”
Yet, if the startling Turkish fall from U.S. graces proves in the end not to be a mirage, some are now asking if an emergent Kurdistan might function more like Israel, as a U.S. ally and base in the region. Such comparisons are too loaded and complex to make lightly, but the paradigm questions remain real.
After 80 years of persecution, the present conjuncture does not offer particularly clear paths toward liberation for Kurds, but nevertheless Kurds will undoubtedly engage what opportunities there are to the best of their advantage. Will the people of the world, especially progressives, support them?

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Adnan Hassanpour must be free unconditionally. The new unproven evidence against him can not be admissible so late, hence he is not guilty based on the universal "Double Jeopardy" legal clause

November 13, 2007

New York, Steve Tataii, (eKurd.net), -- The news of upholding Kak Adnan Hassanpour's execution,
and annulling Kak Hiwa Botimar's death sentence: News Published on www.eKurd.net - Source: AFP at the following LINK (below my comment):

I LIKE TO ADD THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS, WHICH I HOPE YOU'LL READ AFTER READING THE NEWS: MY COMMENTS ARE:

ADNAN HASSANPOUR'S EXECUTION WOULD BE HANGING AN INNOCENT MAN, WHOSE FREEDOMS AS A JOURNALIST IN WRITING SOME KNOWN FACTS ARE BEING DISTORTED FOR AN IMPOSED ACCUSATION. WHICH THE COURT HAS NOT PROVEN WITH EVIDENCE. IF THERE IS EVIDENCE, WHY HAVEN'T THEY PUBLISHED IT? IF NOT, THEN THIS IS A PLOT.

THE CLAIMS MADE BY THE COURT DOES NOT HOLD ANY WATER, BECAUSE HASSANPOUR COULD NOT HAVE POSSIBLY BEEN ABLE TO REPORT ISLAMIC REPUBLIC'S MILITARY POSTS, AND IF HE HAS REFERRED TO SOME POSTS; THIS IS JUST NOT ENOUGH BE PLACED IN CRIME OF TREASON CATEGORY. THIS MAKES IT A WORLD COMMUNITY'S BUSINESS, PROBLEM IN A VERY PERSONAL WAY TO SOLVE IMMEDIATELY. WE MUST ACT NOW.

THESE POSTS ARE EASILY SPOTTED BY US DRONES, AND OTHER MUCH MORE ACCURATE SPYING TOOLS, WHICH MAKES THE ACCUSATION AGAINST HASSANPOUR CHILDISH, AND A DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT FINDING AN EXCUSE JUST TO KILL ANOTHER INNOCENT KURD.

THIS EXECUTION PLAN MUST BE STOPPED OR THERE WILL BE NO END TO IT.
WE SAW HOW THEY EXECUTED "ISMAIL MOHAMADI" LAST YEAR WITHOUT PROVING HIS GUILT TO FIT THE PUNISHMENT HE RECEIVED. MANY MORE KURDS HAVE BEEN EXECUTED SINCE THEN.

WHY AREN'T ALLIES RAISING THIS URGENT HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE? ISLAMIC REPUBLIC IS CLEARLYTRYING TO ALSO DIVERT ATTENTIONS TO ITS OTHER DILEMMAS FACING FROM IAEA.
THIS WOULD BE UNFORTUNATE TO SEE SUPERPOWERS REMAIN SILENT WATCHING EXECUTION AFTER EXECUTION OF THE KURDS, THE LARGEST NATION WITHOUT A COUNTRY SINCE 1923 (NO THANKS TO GREAT BRITAIN - FRANCE, PARTITIONING KURDISTAN CALLOUSLY).

DIVERSION OF ATTENTION OR NOT, THESE EXECUTIONS MUST STOP, AND THIS ONE IS ABOUT TO BE CARRIED OUT WITH NO GIVEN DATE. WHY THE COURT DID NOT RAISE ITS NEWLY ANNOUNCED ACCUSATIONS MONTHS AGO? THIS IS ANOTHER GROUND FOR DISMISSAL OF HASSANPOUR'S DEATH SENTENCE BASED ON WHAT IT IS CALLED "DOUBLE JEOPARDY" AGAINST THE ACCUSED IN ALL CIVILIZED STATES' LEGAL SYSTEM.
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC MUST ADHERE TO THOSE BASIC LAWS, WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN LOUDLY RAISED BY UN, AND OTHERS AS MENTIONED.

IT APPEARS; THAT THESE "DIVERSIONS OF ATTENTIONS" ARE NOT BY COINCIDENT, AND TURKEY IS ALSO USING PKK IN SUCH A DRAMATIC FASHION, WITH SYRIA, AS IT WAS REPORTED BY NEWS AGENCIES, CONDONING TURKEY'S ATTEMPTS AT MAJOR MILITARY CROSS BORDER OPERATIONS.

WHO DO THEY THINK THEY'RE FOOLING? THEIR TIMING CLEARLY INDICATES; THAT THEIR FOOLISH BLOODY GAMES ARE AIMED AT SLOWING DOWN KIRKUK'S REFERENDUM, AND HER RETURN ALONG WITH OTHER KURDISH PARTS, TO THE SELF-RULE KURDISTAN REGION OR KRG.

IF THIS CONTINUES; THESE MUTUALLY "THREE STATE" COLLABORATION AT THEIR LAST GASP TO DERAIL KURDISH PEOPLE'S PEACE, STABILITY, AND THEIR GOD GIVEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS KEPT BEHIND BY THESE INVADERS SINCE 1923 WILL LEAVE
THEM WITH SHAME, AND LEAD TO DIPLOMATIC HARDSHIPS FOR YEARS TO COME, NOT MENTIONING OTHER MUCH BIGGER WARS THEY'LL ALL LOOSE LIKE NEVER BEFORE.

THE PEOPLES OF THESE THREE STATES MUST WORK TOWARD A BETTER GOVERNMENT, AND REMOVE THEIR PRESENT POWER HUNGRY, SELF-SERVING REGIMES WITH PEACEFUL, DEMOCRATIC MEANS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

AFP: Iran court upholds death sentence for Kurdish journalist Adnan Hassanpour, annulled for Hiwa Botimar 10.11.2007

Steve Tataii is a prolific Kurdish author of several recent books related to Iraq War, Kurds and Kurdistan in English. He's the President, and founder of K.U.R.D.S. NGO since 1991, founded to help refugees passing through the pacific. He was also a 2006 U.S. Senator candidate, and the seat for U.S. House in the 2002 contested elections.Tataii has lived in Hawaii since 1976, and has obtained his degrees in Political Science, and Math from UH Manoa. He has written, and lectured extensively about the Kurds, their history, and contemporary Kurdish Political situation since 1920s' unjust partition of Kurdistan by colonial powers, leading to many wars for independence, and creating the today's Iraq War dilemma. www.tataiiforcongress.com

Kurdish Iranian Opposition Leader Seeks Clear Strategy From U.S.

By ELI LAKE

Staff Reporter of the Sun
May 18, 2007

ZERGUEZ, Iraq — At his mountain base just 62 miles from the Iranian border, the Kurdish Iranian opposition leader says he is confused about the Americans. Abdullah Mohtadi, the secretary-general of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, asks bluntly, "What is the American policy on Iran?"

Mr. Mohtadi, who has met with American officials in the past year at the State Department and other government agencies, says that when he describes his party's operations inside Iran and makes pleas for public support, all he gets are nods. "There is no clear strategy in terms of Iranian opposition or Kurdish opposition in Iran," he says. "They show some sympathy toward us. They have started to publicly say things about ethnic groups and women, but there is no formal strategy. We still don't know what the U.S. wants to do with this regime."

The questions from Mr. Mohtadi, whose Komala Party is one of four major Kurdish parties now organizing in Iran, would likely surprise the Bush administration's spokesmen — and its critics. The president himself touted a decision in 2006 to set aside tens of millions of dollars for Iranian opposition groups and the opening of a special office in Dubai to monitor the Iranian regime's activities. Meanwhile, Seymour Hersh has reported in the New Yorker on American contacts with some Iranian ethnic factions. In March, ABC News had a report on American links with Baluchi rebels in Iran blamed for exploding a bus carrying Iranian Revolutionary Guard members.

Mr. Mohtadi says his group, which claims some 800 fighters and a non-violent wing that focuses largely on party organization and propaganda, is not looking for America to invade Iran or even to provide military assistance, as Iraqi opposition parties sought in the 1990s. "We are not asking for an invasion. We are saying that helping Iranian parties fight for democracy and regime change is good for us and good for America," he says.

At least rhetorically, the president would appear to agree. Since 2003, he has pledged that as Iranians stand up for their political rights, America will stand with them. But this rhetorical support has been matched with a record of privately and publicly seeking negotiations with envoys of the Iranian regime, particularly with regard to Iraq. This week, the Iranians agreed to specific days to meet with their American counterparts to discuss Iraqi security, Last month, the commander of the coalition forces in Iraq, General David Petraeus, accused Iran's Quds Force of spearheading an operation to kidnap and kill five American soldiers near the Shiite holy city of Karbala.

Mr. Mohtadi's request for American assistance also marks a departure from the Iranian reformers and student groups in Tehran who have supported a constitutional referendum aimed at eliminating the unchecked power that the supreme leader and council of guardians in Qom wield over the country's courts, military, and legislature. As The New York Sun reported prior to his first trip to America, the dissident writer Akbar Ganji specifically asked that America give him no support, noting that any American assistance would lead to the deaths of his comrades. Mr. Ganji has not yet returned to Iran.

The support Mr. Mohtadi seeks from America is conditional, however. He does not want, for example, to be used as a cudgel to harass the regime. "It is better to publicly announce support," he says. "This is a justifiable strategy in terms of helping the Iranian people. Iranians deserve a better regime. Iranians deserve a democratic government."

Inside a compound on the slopes of the Karadagh Mountains, the Komala Party's operations appear modest. There are trailers, running water, a space for military training, and even a playground for children, guarded by a perimeter fence. Money for living expenses, Mr. Mohtadi says, comes from the Kurdistan regional government, which has asked his group, as well as the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, to refrain from launching military operations inside Iran. Mr. Mohtadi says he respects the wishes of his hosts and is focusing his group's efforts on creating political cells inside the Kurdish provinces, where he estimates 10 million Iranian Kurds live.

The group's operations in Iran, as well as a satellite television station based in Sweden, are funded by private donations from inside Iran and from Kurds in Europe and America, Mr. Mohtadi says. Part of the Kurdish strategy in Iran is to form alliances with other ethnic factions, such as the Ahwaz Arabs, Baluchis, and Azeris, he says.

In this respect, Mr. Mohtadi does not favor Kurdish separatism, a thorny issue that has kept many in the Iranian opposition from forging close ties with the Kurds.

"We believe in mobilizing people through mass protests. When the time is right for armed struggle, provided it is part of a political struggle, we would consider it," he says.

The Komala Party has been affiliated with the Socialist International. But Mr. Mohtadi says the European left in particular has done little for his cause. "There was never a clear strategy from our European comrades in terms of Iranian opposition or the Kurdish opposition," he says.

Toward the end of an interview with the Sun, Mr. Mohtadi says he now thinks he has some common ground with socialism's nemesis, Washington's neoconservatives. "We have some things in common with the neocons," he said. "We both believe in the democratization of the whole Middle East."

Turkey's Suicide amass may lead to a possible mess in a stone age war culture

By: Steve Tataii

July 16, 2006

The 200 thousands or so Turkish troops amassed behind Kurdistan borders may
Cause an all out war in the North, not only killing themselves sparked by a shot, but also get a lot of other civilians, and Kurdish Security forces killed, not mentioning possible US Forces added to the arena. The tensions are at all time high.

Now, this could become one of the most stupid battles fought in the history of warfare. On one side you'd have 200 thousands Turkish troops or several thousands in each charge killed Where they stand by the brave Peshmarga, and American Forces, and on the other side you'd have some civilians, Security forces, and US troops accidentally shot by the clumsy Turkish troops, forced to fight in any given war for the first time against their wishes.

I have scrolled the pages of history in warfare, and the only such stupid military suicide moves were only made in absolute desperation, loss of pride to some idiot incompetent war monger General, or just pure stupidity in miscalculating other side's military capabilities. Let's not forget; that there was no jet fighter planes nor other advanced reconnaissance system for thousands of years having said the least, but there was abundant number of troops, and their warlords, finding themselves dead into the battles they fought aimlessly,
and lost.

Baghdad has just sent the wake up call to Ankara in shipping out their troops away from Kurdish borders to ease the ongoing tensions. I doubt if Turkish regime has the ears to listen, while 7 of our Peshmarga forces were ambushed yesterday by the growing al-Qaeda's cowardly attacks, which also means Turkey's aggression has caused such destabilizations to occur, and this is not short of subversive behavior against US it considers friendly.

Turkey has just indicated to Secretary Rice's word of backing off from their incursions; and has said something to the effect; that "we don't want anyone telling us what to do, and will act unilaterally if we wish". This, while on July 22, 2007 they'll hold their undemocratic elections, denying many well qualified Kurdish Candidates to participate, because of the prison sentences illegally imposed based solely on their Kurdish identity. Some Democratic state.
I can't wait to see what their next President, and parliament will be like!

How can a country with donated military machines, and the money allowed to steal from the natural resources of its Kurdish neighbor for 85 years can be so disgraceful, so callous, and so uncivilized, while pretending to be one of outright allies in the post WWI, courtesy of Great Britain, and France, and jumping on the Woodrow Wilson's Opportunity Band Wagon creating the League of Nations, which was wrongfully executed at the tail end of their Treaty of Serves,

and against President Wilson's self determination doctrine to create the League in the first place?

There you have it. Let's say what needs to be said, and not leave any stones unturned if we must end this bloody war now about to be expanded into becoming another bigger war, and another Tyrant's football, no thanks to our delayed actions caused by some foreign policy advisors, the same "old fogies" still around even after their retirement. Those who protected Turkey's criminal policies, campaigns of genocide, and they do so to this day through their words or crony emissaries paid with a wealth of blood money in their fat bank accounts.

Well, let me see. Aha I found it. Turkey isn't operating alone, and it isn't making war strategies short of other suicide minded, yellow belly, Lilly Liver big mouth advisors imported from the West aside the aforesaid Great Britain's initiation 85 years ago, secondary to too much, and too many freebies from our annual US foreign aid cookie jars since the Cold War, and now Riding on the back of NATO like a parasite to continue operating, but more like a seemingly incurable decease among the wrongfully granted, and manufactured family of states with no sense of identity of its own, other than the foreign puppet Ataturk's own invention of a new TURKIC dialect for a mixed Turkic-Mongolian group, and its bigoted, and criminal attempts at wiping out 30,000,000 Kurds, with their oldest language, and
12,000 years of Civilization second to none, forced to live within an artificial border
since 1923, again, courtesy of the Global colonial powers, Great Britain primarily.

This is the worst of an old, broken, and crooked nation building in dire need of change, and its founders, now after changes of their old guards, inheriting a heritage, and a legacy of shame, they are incapable, and incompetent to change, and many of whom lacking the dignity to step forward, speak up, admit their dark past, and brave that long overdue change.

The question is, is; that "Are we, the allies in war since 2003 with the present modern warfare going to bow down at such a lazy, disgraceful, unappreciative, and most of all unstable, and greedy member state we've gotten stuck with since 1923?" Are we going to let our comrades get killed senselessly, or are we going to remove the war machines we gave them from post WWI, ending up to execute crimes against humanity against 30,000,000 Kurds? The same arms, which is now being claimed by Turkish regime as their new excuse for ongoing incursions; that it has been issued to the Kurdish Guerillas, but pretending it is coming from the North or South Kurdistan, while the truth is; that it couldhave been taken away from their Turkish security Guards inside their invaded Kurdish land?

Or are we just going to make it short, and simple by taking away those heavy military machines, before they are unleashed on us in the wrong hands as if they're toys, and by turning them into scrap metal right where they're sitting, and can easily be detected by our satellites? I sure hope the latter is our quick, and decisive strategy. This way, we will have permanently removed the cancer, and even enhanced NATO's capability by kicking out this one menace "pain in the neck". Unless Turkey's regime must begins cleansing

itself of bigots from bottom up, and not up to bottom before being allowed back into the family of states, NATO, or any other Global network. Where else to start from better than getting out of North Kurdistan they so hate, and with good reason, since Kurdistan is not their territory, and now that the League of Nations is dead, and gone; the existing supposedly responsible international authority to keep peace, and freedom known as UN should be up to that task or we'll continue having war after war after war until Kurdistan, and America are free from these

empowered menaces, and parasites. If we keep them kicked out of European Union, we can surely Kick them out of NATO. Besides, where in NATO's constitution states; that an outlaw international bozo "war criminal" member of theirs may continue getting free rides in the status Quo, and in the name

of NATO? No where. It doesn't exist. Read it for yourselves. And while you're at it read one of my recent books called "IRAQ WARS" by typing "Steve Tataii" in most online bookstore search boxes to learn more. May God bless America, Kurdistan, and all other sane, and peace Loving regimes representing their nations.

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Steve Tataii is a prolific Kurdish author of several recent books related to Iraq War,

Kurds and Kurdistan in English. He's the President, and founder of K.U.R.D.S. NGO

since 1991, founded to help refugees passing through the pacific. He was also a

2006 U.S. Senator candidate, and the seat for U.S. House in the 2002 contested elections.

Tataii has lived in Hawaii since 1976, and has obtained his degrees in Political Science,

and Math from UH Manoa. He has written, and lectured extensively about the Kurds,

their history, and contemporary Kurdish Political situation since 1920s' unjust partition

of Kurdistan by colonial powers, leading to many wars for independence, and creating

the today's Iraq War dilemma. www.tataiiforcongress.com

Open Letter To U.S. President George Walker Bush

Five Peshmerga forces were just killed getting caught unguarded in Baghdad

By Steve Tataii

June21, 2007

Vokradio.com: I blame it on arming some Sunnis as the new strategy to fight the terrorists. Sir, Thank you for the war of Liberation, but we have accomplished our main mission In removing Saddam’s regime from power, we must secure the two nations of Kurds, and Arabs, and bring back our soldiers as soon as that’s done. Please read the entire of this vital article as a fresh look at what we're not doing, and we must begin doing right.

We have caused to kill more Sunni, and Shia than Saddam killed innocent Iraqi Civilians. At a time like this, when Sunnis are at their highest state of being disenchanted by all this killings since our invasion in 2003; to arm Sunni or Shia to fight terrorists is, and will become our biggest mistake.

There is no way to tell the Ba’asi Arabs from ordinary Sunni or Shia. This by itself is a political suicide, and I'm totally against it to continue. To end the sectarian violence we must encourage peace from where it was broken to pieces, and not by arming the Sunni-Shia insurgence nor in the name of al -Qaeda elements! We must secure the Mosques, and respect people's culture, and privacy in their own backyard.

The unidentified Sunnis, and Shias we are arming will be killing Kurds, and even other Arab, and minority civilians mostly in Baghdad, and target our own troops. The Sunnis are obviously angry, fed up, and hopeless even if half of their non-Ba’asis were not in that state of mind prior to the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, sparking attacks, and their daily killings by Shia, hence in a tit for tat chain Reaction, leading to the both sects killing each other at an unprecedented rate.

Who exactly bombed that mosque, and if al-Qaeda did, where is the evidence?

Al-Qaeda could be from any country, so in essence the cleaning up operation can best be done by the natives of Iraq, and as Pat Buchanan on last Friday’s news program suggested; “The apparent effective way to get rid of Terrorists in Sunni area is if we pulled back, or as I would put it step back, and let them fight the terrorist”. This, as Sunnis have tried to do or have shown interest doing so, but as long as we’re at their throats in their backyard, the only thing they can do to survive is to stay out of our way, and worry about their own lives lost, mistaken as terrorists. If we push the local Arabs too far, they may join or may have already joined a form of al-Qaeda, hence we have lost their support, and have probably added to our conflict.

Therefore, this by no means call for arming the Sunni nor the Shia, whom by the way are also at odds with al-Qaeda. We must only arm the Kurds at the present time, and no one else.

You see sir, we are yet to prove who bombed Samarra Mosque? We are yet to prove if al-Qaeda’s committed members are really operating in Iraq as we continue to claim they are, or they are just the Saddamists, and Ba’asi Sunni-Shia dead enders, but also Arab natives’ own resistance groups to our long occupation.

Honorable President Bush, most importantly, Let’s reassess our strategies in this war, and let’s not force the Kurds to get involved in Sunni-Shia wars the way we have been dictating to their Leaders, who have reluctantly sent nearly 2 Peshmerga regiments. It is not being culturally sensitive, when we expect the Kurds to give their lives in Sunni-Shia wars they wish to have nothing to do with. Let’s not persuade Kurdish Leaders to send more Peshmerga forces to Baghdad to act as our hired killers, forced to kill Arabs by no choice, and in self-Defense. This does not go well with their future Kurdish-Arab neighborly relations in their Southern borders to Kurdistan.

There should never be such a thing as Kurdish peace keepers in Arab Iraq other than Kurds keeping Peace, and security in their own Kurdish region the way they have always done, and not expected to get involved after what their civilians have gone through since 1920s, and moreover since 1963 Saddam’s beginning rein.

This would be unrealistic, unfair, against our moral, and principles of defending Human Rights.

Certainly if Americans have spotted an injustice around the world, we have immediately rushed to end it, and save the victims, but have not expected the victims to be re-victimized. If there was any quick solution to this war it should have started by letting the Kurds in the North to have their independence at least 3 years ago, so that they could move on with their reconstruction of the ruins from the past 87 years, in peace, calm, and security, which was the least we could have done. To expect Kurdish nation remain in other nations in-fights is not a moral thing to do. Kurds must not be looked at as Arab sects babysitters, and based on that be exploited, nor should they have to do this in exchange for favors such as their unreleased reconstruction money, which they are yet to receive in the full amount of 8 billion dollars, and not the 1.2 billion piecemeal.

If Kurds were left in their own secured homeland, and remain strong, we would only have to worry about the South, West, and Baghdad, and our job of securing those areas would even be easier. We have simply held the Kurds captive even after their forceful captivity during the Saddam’s regime. We need to change that Sir. Kurdish independence is in the palm of our hands. What are we waiting for?

There is no such a thing as Kurdish-Sunni-Shia Unification, and there never can be any. On the other hand: Given their recent history of conflicts after 1923’s imposed fusion of Kurds, and Arabs into one state "Iraq" by colonial powers: “There is not, and there can never be any Kurdish-Arab-Turkish-Persian unity in Iraq-Iran-Turkey-Syria, after so many bloody wars, including Halabja chemical bombing, and ANFAL to say the least. The Four mentioned states usurping Kurdistan if I may remind you, were all artificially carved up by the major European powers of colonial era in their busy schedule of slicing up world’s nations, and this was one of their most outlaw, and callous projects, because it has led to the killing of a great number of the most ancient people, about 3.5 million Kurdish civilians so far.

In the greater Kurdistan, today’s home to over 50,000,000 Kurds in 4 parts, not one part has had a recognized independent state, while there have are 22 Arab states, 6 Turkic states, and 3 Persian states.

Sir, we have had wrong strategies in this war, but admitting or denying it is not going to bring back the lives lost as in any other war, and Democrats are greatly responsible to take most of the blame in this, for their lack of cooperation, bickering, and nonsense Partisan diatribes. To reassess our actions now, and recognize a clear strategy is the only correct course of action. The world community are aware of the fact; that the aforesaid countries had, and still have puppet regimes often brought to power by our own CIA’s covert or overt executed plans or brought to power by our manipulation of their politics for their people to do the same on our behalf, hoping to reach the same results. Our past intentions haven’t always been “People oriented”, and sensitive, rather it has been, as I would put it, special interest “Corporate Heads Oriented”.

This has damaged our American principles for Freedom, peace, and Justice around the world, and I know this is why you have had a hard time to give us back our true American character, but as you have bravely stood up against all odds; God almighty will be your guidance Sir.

Just imagine, if the many confused Democrats with no sense of understanding about this war come to power. Except a few of them, the rest shall overwhelm whatever we have so far achieved for Kurds, and take the same old rotten path by taking the side of the villains, and bring back the oppressors, who will in turn bring back the same Saddam like regimes. We just can’t afford to wait for that to happen Sir. We must support Kurds in their permanent nation building process.

Again, Kurdish military units or Peshmerga should not be engaged in the Sunni-Shia Wars, and they should be in their own Kurdish region to help, and secure the safety of their Kurdish citizens within the Kurdish map in the North.

Sir, you, and I nor the Kurds should carryout the wishes of the world’s corporate heads, and do what they wish us to do in killing all of their suspected threats to oil fields of Kurdistan nor Basra, and we must not pretend Globalization is any different than Colonialism with slightly different definitions, and means. If Globalization is inevitable, which is not; then at least its process should not be at the cost of millions of innocent civilian lives to get to the oil in Kurdistan, and the unholy “Heads” do not have to kill millions of Kurds, and others, but if they use their Egoistic brains, and poor visions; they can actually see; that they can purchase Kurdish oil from Kurds themselves, and Basra oil from their respective Arab nations.

It is only a matter of time; that these rightful owners, Kurds, and Arabs, will learn; that the actual oil money is not divided among them in an old fashion way, but rather it is in form of credits registered through a central international Monetary fund system without the hand exchange of money, all but a very small amount of actual cash. This is why it is important; that we do not delay releasing Kurdish reconstruction share of the 23 billion dollars. The 1.2 billion dollars has just not been enough. Their actual share is 8 billion dollars. They have bills to pay, wages to pay, and building supplies to buy, not mentioning many many other needs left suspended.

Soon the winter will arrive, and tens of thousands of internal Kurdish refugees, and those in need of proper homes will need to live in reasonable housings. Kurdistan need at least two large electric power plants to provide electricity to millions of Kurds. They need drinking water plants, and road constructions to name a few.

Frankly Sir I believe in the past we have had a very cold, and senseless foreign policy toward Kurds for nearly a Century, and here, I’m still trying to remain within the criteria in speaking about Kurdish people’s well being, because if we don’t correct our approach soon, we will have again betrayed the Kurds, and left the region with a stateless Kurdish population open to the surrounding mentioned fascist regimes’ assaults, when we’re irresponsibly arming the Sunnis instead of first arming the Kurds, who have become one of or the strongest ally with us in this war, and have even answered to your secretaries demand for Peshmerga participation, which as I stated earlier is not a moral request.

Last Friday in the media was suggested; that it appears that the bombing of Samarra Mosque was done by unknown Americans. They did not specify who, and what group, and under whose orders. If this is true, then this is really sick, and we must get to the bottom of this investigation, and find out if there has been one. I personally don’t think so, and if any,

it must have come from an external enemy’s camp.

I Think We Need To Take Four Simple Action Steps Very Quickly, and end this chaotic WAR. They are:

1- Declare the South Kurdistan in the North, which has been Self-Ruled since 1992 an Independent Kurdish state immediately, and cause UN to allow entering its membership by doing the same at once. We are at least 3 years late in doing so after the two major Kurdish parties were unified during the statelessness period brought upon them since 1920s League of Nations’ aborted treaty of Serves for Kurds, Armenians, and Azaris, and because we should be thankful of God; that they have been able to defend themselves with simple defensive weaponry, but suffer heavy casualties, and surviving all these years. Since 1923 they have been thrown before the four well supported, and armed military forces, usurping their land like vultures, while assisting their Colonial masters for the following 80 years of oil piracy from Kirkuk oil fields. This is the least we must do quickly, before we loose all of our credibility among other Nations, and I mean “ALL OTHER NATIONS”. It would be regrettable if we don’t.

2- Let’s announce our departure in a tentative set date, and before that date encourage peace between Sunni-Shia Arabs, to be a mandatory requirement if they want us to leave sooner, but with the assurance of peace, and stability among the two, since Kurds have already been Self-Ruled since 1992, and we have already overthrown Saddam, and almost all of his subordinates, leaving the few thugs or Saddamists, and foreign fighter dead enders be removed by people

themselves.

3- We must help the Kurds to complete the long overdue implementation of article 140, and allow them to secure all ethnically cleansed targeted cities, villages, and provinces below 36 parallel, so that they are back in the hands of their rightful owner Kurdish people, and under the sovereign Kurdistan’s government authority led by the honorable President Massoud Barzani, and not any other unknown non-Kurdish territory’s Rule. This is extremely important, because as Kurds have not invaded other nations’ territories; they will never let their people, and motherland remain outside of Kurdistan, and this especially includes Kirkuk, and all other Kurdish areas within Kurdistan.

4- Let’s make it clear to Turkey, and Iran; that we will decisively take out their military Hardware or arsenals in their bases on the ground if they ever step a foot into Kurdish territory without visa or permission as described, and at that time the usurped Kurdish territory invaded by them will be assisted to permanently become Liberated with each forming their own governments. Unless; that not only they must respect their Kurdish neighbor state’s boundaries in South Kurdistan, but they must begin giving full autonomy to the invaded Kurdish regions usurped by them, and must begin to treat the Kurds there no different than Persian or Turkish citizens or groups, helping the Kurds to recover, and repair the war destructions left behind by their regimes, and also stabilize the level of developments, and modernization kept behind, and bring it to the same standards as the other parts if not better, otherwise the Plan of Independence for those Kurdistan parts will remain open on the table indefinitely.

Thank you Mr. President, and good luck to you in ending this war, wishing that you remain as our brave champion among all other U.S. Presidents, and Happy Birthday to you Sir.

Steve Tataii is a prolific Kurdish author of several recent books related to Iraq War, Kurds and Kurdistan in English. He's the President, and founder of K.U.R.D.S. NGO since 1991, founded to help refugees passing through the pacific. He was also a 2006 U.S. Senator candidate, and the seat for U.S. House in the 2002 contested elections.Tataii has lived in Hawaii since 1976, and has obtained his degrees in Political Science, and Math from UH Manoa. He has written, and lectured extensively about the Kurds, their history, and contemporary Kurdish Political situation since 1920s' unjust partition of Kurdistan by colonial powers, leading to many wars for independence, and creating the today's Iraq War dilemma. www.tataiiforcongress.com

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Do You Have to Be a Kurd to Report Kurdish Tragedies?

A letter to Emily Lenzner at npr (National Public Radio) dated: May 20, 2007

By: Steve Tataii

I'm shocked, and quite disturbed by how we continue to hop over some of the most horrific attacks on Kurdish civilians, which has again restarted in the past two weeks, and while our Politicians continue to hold up the Recognition of an Independent State for the Kurds of South Kurdistan at least since 2004, when finally the two major Kurdish parties united.
I have kept telling some of our lawmakers to please hurry up, and let the Kurds have their officially recognized state, but no one listens except a few with there voices silenced after they present their piece before the Senate Foreign Relation committee or elsewhere.
The May 19, 2007 Kurdish civilian Genocide in village of Qara Lous has not only been ignored by NPR so far (May 20, 2007); but also by all the mainstream media clear across the board so far. I keep up with the Kurdish Current Events, because I am a Kurd by origin.
Do you have to be a Kurd to report their tragedies? Kurds have the right to their state like everybody else does I mind you all. It will remain to be a modern day's disturbing man's trend to only focus on what has some kind of financial gain to most of these media entities, and I'm
not at all including NPR in them, or at least not yet, and pray to God that It won't get to that. This is not only a sad case of hijacking our freedom of speech by that group, and a sickening living standard to follow, but it is pathetic.
I'm reporting the news of this gruesome attack on Kurdish civilians, and I'm sure it happened, because not only it was reported by some not-for-profit news websites, but it is on KTV news segments if you care to verify it for yourself. So in addition to AFP; please go to www.kurdistantv.net and click on their live TV linkage in either languages' page. The news is reported nearly every 2 hours in Kurdish except once in Arabic. I last saw this news at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time. On a personal note; I'm the author of 3 recent Current Event Books on Kurds, Kurdistan, and Iraq war. Another unreported story. I like to encourage you to look at these books' titles, their cover photos, and some backgrounds in my own website, and some other major outlets such as bn.com, amazon.com, and others by simply typing "Steve Tataii" in their search engines. I have tried to be on NPR related shows regarding my books since they came out last year on March, and April 2006, but no one has replied, so I a kind of gave up.
Time has never been on our sides Emily, when it comes to put an end to these tragedies, and it would be an endless suffering of this, the largest nation of around 50 million Kurds still without a recognized country of their own, when We have even reached to that point, now in the palm of our hands; to declare their independence for one out of the 4 unjustly partitioned Kurdistan in South Kurdistan (North of the defunct Iraq). Kurds did not cause this lack of ability to fight for their national homeland territorial integrity, but it was caused by a frenzy of several nations with military powers, and regretfully calling themselves democratic-civilized nations, non other than the 1920s colonial powers of Europe or Britain-France empowering all the present invading states of Turkey, Iran, Iraq (until 2003), and Syria, to use them as puppets for their colonial exploitations, sucking up Kurdish national oil revenues at least since 1923, while Kurds themselves, robbed of their own natural resources' benefits as mentioned, did not receive any of their own oil revenues.
Not until they were given the chance to receive 13% of the revenues in 1996, and even most of that was stolen by the many gangs, including UN, who have mastered themselves to erase all the evidence from their thievery. What mainstream media is doing against the Kurds is totally reckless, and irresponsible. For example the Yezidi Kurds in the North of South Kurdistan make up less than 0.002% of the entire Kurdish population, which amounts to about 1500 or less. Instead of reporting the horrible massacre of the Kurdish civilians on May 19th; CNN's "Melissa" at about 11; 10 am
Yesterday (May 19, 2007) reported and televised a cell phone camera version Of this late reported incident, hence added to public's diversion of attention to the Kurdish people's key, and urgent vital needs Imagine; the harder they have fought for their Liberation in 87 years gone by;
Now they are being abused, and depicted negatively with just one incident representing less than 0.002% of the 50 million Kurdish nations.
This really adds to further stereotyping of the Kurds; when isolated felonies similar to this happens around the world, and while the criminals have been arrested, and will be dealt with in their court of Justice. What I'm tryig to say is; that isolated "remote minority social" cases should not be compromised with REAL, and ongoing human sufferings caused by external powers, and obiously as the result of preventing a whole nation of Kurds from developing their living conditions; when they have been robbed of their own natural resources' revenues for over 80 years, and the greedy players in depriving them of their statehood are still the cause of this abhorrent condition.
Yes Kurds like any other people have isolated incidents too, but who are we to judge them, while they have taken care of their people in the past 12,000 years!
Are we, in other countries perfect? No, but we all thrive to perfection. By the way, the number of massacred reached 20 today, after 4 more died of their wounds; specifically the Kurdish mother trying to prevent the shooting ofher young son with herself shot in the process. Were they al-Qaeda for sure?Certainly no one has proven anything other than they spoke Arabic, and wereimpersonating as military men with Uniforms on. The latest news indicated; thatthe perpetrators are known, and they will be brought to Justice for this abhorrentcrime against humanity as soon as they're caught from their hidings nearby.

Steve Tataii is a prolific Kurdish author of several recent books related to Iraq War, Kurds and Kurdistan in English. He's the President, and founder of K.U.R.D.S. NGO since 1991, founded to help refugees passing through the pacific. He was also a 2006 U.S. Senator candidate, and the seat for U.S. House in the 2002 contested elections. Tataii has lived in Hawaii since 1976, and has obtained his degrees in Political Science,and Math from UH Manoa. He has written, and lectured extensively about the Kurds, their history, and contemporary Kurdish Political situation since 1920s' unjust partitionof Kurdistan by colonial powers, leading to many wars for independence, and creating the today's Iraq War dilemma.

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Fundraising event in Southern California

Please help bring KurdishMedia.com back!

By: Dr. Rebwar Fatah, Phd

        For years, KurdishMedia.com has been the leading Kurdish news source for Kurds and others following the situation of the Kurdish nation. It has maintained its independence and consistently provided its readers with breaking news reports, political analysis, cultural insight, and information on Kurdish events worldwide. The KurdishMedia.com team, a group of volunteers, has dedicated countless hours to maintain the site without ever receiving any monetary compensation. Some journalists have gone to great lengths and taking great risks to get stories that have captivated our readers. As you know, unfortunately KurdishMedia.com has been down for weeks and “friends of KurdishMedia.com” have rightfully expressed their concern about this. Here are some examples of their recent comments I have received.
    •     “KurdishMedia.com is one of the most reliable serious Kurdish voices.”
    •     “(Blocking KurdishMedia.com) is similar to trying to silence Martin Luther King from bringing Civil Rights Movement to America, but at the end they all failed.”
    •     “KurdishMedia.com has become the icon of free speech for English-speaking writers and reporters interested in promoting Kurdish cause by peaceful means.”
    •     “In its many years of public service, and through its pioneering web-based free forum, KurdishMedia.com was able to earn the respect and admiration of the English-speaking Kurdish community around the world and in the homeland.”
    •     "Many of us have published articles in defense of the Kurdish voices and democratic rights on this very prominent site."
    •     “This is a challenge to all of us and we must stand united at least once to let the world now that we are one nation and we deserve a recognition and respect. We must demand this respect not asking for, and this demand comes only if we are united."
    •     “It provided a medium for ‘free speech’ for a nation that has been continually robbed of that luxury in its homeland.”
    •     “Targeting this democratic outlet is the symbol of their weakness and true influence of this web site in reflecting the demand of the Kurdish people for the right of self-determination.”
    •     “KurdishMedia.com has been very successful in enlightening our people and standing up for their rights.”
    •     “As a busy student in my last step of my Masters, but I can say I am ready to do my all the best shoulder to shoulder with you.”
    •     “To be proud of being victims is something we should avoid. Stand up and start again, we will help you.”

As you are well aware, KurdishMedia.com was attacked. To combat similar attacks KurdishMedia.com needs an updated, less vulnerable technological platform, which obviously costs. To get KurdishMedia.com back, we will need to raise funding of approximately $20,000.00. Many of friends of KurdishMedia.com have stepped in and plan to help bring KurdishMedia.com back by organizing fundraising events in various parts of the world. The next of such events will be in Southern California that I have been invited to attend. We are reluctantly asking friends like you for financial support. Any contribution is appreciated as recognition of the work that KurdishMedia.com has done and will continue to do following its return.

Methods of payment:
1. For the fundraising event in Southern California, you may participate in person on June 3rd, 2007, 4pm at: University Community Park, Multi-use building, 1 Beech Tree Lane, Irvine, CA 92612.

2. You may also send your checks or money order prior to May 28th, 2007 to Kurdish American organizations that you are familiar with such as Art-in-Mind, KAES, KNC, etc., with a memo for KurdishMedia.com to: P.O. Box 50822, Irvine, CA 92619. Please contact those organizations about tax deductibility rules.

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Yours Truly,
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And the entire KurdishMedia.com team and friends of KurdishMedia.com

All Eyes on Kirkuk
by Goran Sadjadi; May 05, 2007

http://www.zmag.org

While the city of Kirkuk has been spared much of the violence engulfing regions further south in Iraq, the threats coming from different groups regarding the city have only been increasing and explicit demands remain uncompromising. Major tension between Iraqi Kurds and neighboring Turkey has been the most worrisome as both sides threaten armed conflict if their demands are not met. Both foreign influence and intervention in Iraq has been of the greatest concerns for U.S. officials and the conflict regarding Kirkuk could be all the same. The ongoing debate regarding the status of the oil-rich city has consisted of harsh words on all sides, and analysts expect that this year could be either a turning point in Iraq for better or for worse.

Saddam for years attempted to "Arabize" Kirkuk by driving out native Kurds and Turkmen replacing them with Arabs, many of them Shiites relocated from the south. Today, Iraqi Kurdish leaders are demanding the implementation of Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution, a crucial article related to the normalization of the demographics of Kirkuk and which orders an official referendum regarding the status of the city in a future federal Iraq.

Most recently to implement this article, the Iraqi government in Baghdad has endorsed a plan to relocate thousands of Arabs to their original towns, giving monetary compensation to those who move voluntarily. However, news of the plan sparked outrage among both Iraqi Arab leaders as well as Turkish politicians.

Iraqi Kurds for several years have demanded the reversal of Saddam’s injustices and have claimed that Kirkuk is the heart of Iraqi Kurdistan. Kurdish leaders have ambitions to annex the oil-rich city of Kirkuk to their federal region and proclaim it as their capital. However, the problem lies in the fact that the city sits on nearly 40 percent of Iraq’s oil. Turkey fears that such moves would allow Kurds to gain the economic power they need to move towards full independence. Turkish officials fear that such a circumstance would incite separatism among Turkey’s own Kurdish population, and have called for a delay in the referendum.

Turkish officials have also claimed their concerns are for the Iraqi Turkmen communities in Kirkuk. The Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF), a coalition of several Turkmen groups, reportedly receives funding from the Turkish government in Ankara. While ITF objectives are aligned with Turkey’s policy in Iraq, the same may not hold true for the majority of Iraqi Turkmen.

The Iraqi elections in 2005 were a failure for the ITF, which did not gather more than 1 percent of the total votes as many Turkmen instead cast their votes for the Iraqi-Shiite coalition. Divisions within the Turkmen communities are also indicated by the existence of other Turkmen groups that disagree with ITF policy.

Groups such as the Turkmen Democratic Movement highly oppose Turkey intervening in Iraq’s political processes, further undermining Turkey’s claims in protecting Iraqi Turkmen interests. The leader, Kalkhi Noureddin, says the group was formed after realizing “foreign interference does not serve the interests of Turkmens in [Iraqi] Kurdistan”. Noureddin currently works with the Kurdish administration and believes that dialogue between Iraqi Kurds and Turkey is necessary in order to avoid armed conflict.

Until now, violence in Kirkuk has been blamed primarily on Sunni and Shiite insurgents. Several Shiite armed groups such as the Mehdi Army, loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, began moving into the Kirkuk province mid-last year. U.S. officials declared such Shiite armed groups, reportedly backed by Iran, as the deadliest threats to the security in the region. Local residents say their presence is marked by bomb explosions and murders.

However much the threat of these armed groups as well as Iran’s alleged influence in the region, Iraqi officials recently claimed to have found links between the ongoing violence in Kirkuk and other foreign forces. Recently, an Iraqi Kurdish official in Kirkuk, Nejat Hassan, asserted that Iraqi Security Forces obtained enough evidence to prove that Turkey’s Intelligence Agency has been carefully conducting much of the terrorist activity in Kirkuk, targeting both Iraqi government officials as well as civilians.

Despite the United States’ own difficulty with their Turkish NATO ally following the detainment of 11 of Turkey’s Special Forces who were allegedly plotting to assassinate Kirkuk’s governor in 2003, U.S. officials have not responded to the latest allegations by Iraqi officials. Many Kurds feel uncomfortable with the Americans’ silent stance on this issue and believe their reasons are in order to avoid embarrassment with their Turkish ally.

Still, the conflict in Iraq regarding Kirkuk and Turkey’s intervention may soon become unavoidable. Turkey has made several public threats against the Iraqi Kurdish administration saying that they oppose any Kurdish-control of Kirkuk. While the Iraqi constitution outlines a referendum on Kirkuk's future by the end of this year, Turkey has threatened an invasion if the district, which analysts predict the Kurds will win by a majority vote, falls under the Kurds’ control.

Kurdish officials have complained against such threats and say their previous requests for dialogue with Turkey had all been turned down. Some also suspect that there are ulterior motives in regards to Kirkuk. Many Turkish politicians have openly stated that the oil-rich districts of Kirkuk and Mosul are historically Ottoman. For this reason, some Kurdish officials say, Turkey wishes to re-annex the area and its lucrative oil to its territory.

While the violence in Kirkuk remains minimal when compared to other cities in the south, threats continue and the possibility of a large-scale conflict increases. Tensions in Kirkuk could explode and even spread further north to Iraqi Kurdistan, the country’s only stable region. Kurdish officials have responded to Turkish politicians with their own threats maintaining that any invasion by the Turkish military will lead to large-scale clashes with their own armed forces.

However the politics may turn out remains unclear. Nevertheless, while U.S. officials condemn foreign interference resulting in many of the problems throughout Iraq, Kurdish officials believe the same applies to Kirkuk as an internal Iraqi affair in which Turkey should not interfere.

Otherwise, one high-ranking Kurdish official said, Kurds are willing to bare the consequences of a new conflict.

Sources: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=12754

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Goran Sadjadi is a freelance writer living in the United States. He visited Turkey and Iraq in August 2005 and is actively engaged in political analysis of the Kurdistan region and the Middle East.

Asuda Condemns the Murder of Du'aa 4/29/2007 11:46:14 AM

While Human Rights and Civil Society Groups and Activists have been striving for years to put and end to abuses and violence against women, inhuman and outrageous killings in the name of honor continue to be a serious social problem and perpetrators of such crimes escape from justice.

In early April 2007, Duâ€™a Khalil Aswad a Yezidi girl of about 17 of age was stoned to death accused of so-called honour crime in Bashika. As appeared in video footages apparently captured by mobile phones, Duâ€™a was stoned to death by a group of about eight men and in the presence of a large crowd around the crime scene.

Asuda condemns in the strongest terms the killing of Duâ€™a Khalil Aswad and calls on the authorities to act urgently to bring to justice the perpetrators of the crime and fulfill its responsibilities in protecting women who continue to be killed under the name of honor and other pretexts.

Asuda also calls upon Human Rights organizations and Civil Society Groups and activists to coordinate and act immediately to request the relevant authorities to investigate in allegations that suggested law enforcement officials were present but at the crime scene but did not act to stop the killing.

Asuda appeals to the authorities to take urgent action to make sure legislative reforms protect women at risk from continuing to be victims â€œhonour crimes.â€

Asuda for Combating Violence against Women

Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan,Iraq

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Mr. Erdogan Bring Down Your Ottoman Empire’s Ego Act Democratic And Free North Kurdistan

By: Steve Tataii

87 years have passed since the plot against the Kurds by the Colonial allies, namely at the Time, Great Britain-France selfish ventures into the region, when for unknown reasons, but greedy motives allowed the remainder of Ottoman Empire live on through Ankara, attaching another expectedly Liberated state of Kurdistan to the artificially created “Turkey”, in the same fashion they created “Iraq”, “Syria”, and the empowered “Iran” to keep Eastern Kurdistan as well.

My point to make in this article of “War, and Peace“; is that it is to your nation’s best interest to Recognize the stupidity of Great Britain, and France of the 1920s led by a supposedly civilized government of Winston Churchill, and France, which ensued The next 87 years of wars in the region of which we now are deeply involved in for the “Artificial Iraq” Liberation, and Kurdish Genocides with destruction of tens of thousands of their Villages starting in North Kurdistan, and continuing in “Iraq”, which Resulted in over 3.5 million Kurdish civilians perished up to the time of U.S. Strike in o3.

As you are a cosigner to the Geneva Convention to ban the use of Chemical Weapons among Warring Nations, and forceful usurping of land belonging to other distinct Nations through ganging up or Frenzy attacks by 4 usurper new states in violations of human rights treaties, and the very reasons U.S. Government had to act decisively, and went to war against Saddam in 1991 for invading Kuwait, and again in 2003 against Saddam’s proven potential to use Chemical Weapons against Kurds, and our U.S. forces; then let me remind you; that Winston Churchill too did use Chemical Weapons against Kurds as well as Arabs of South. The differences in time to pass these treaties can not, and will not legitimize the continued use of Chemical Weapons, nor does it Legitimize invading or maintaining your occupation of N. Kurdistan against the will of international communities, and laws of nations. When crimes against Humanity have occurred there is no statute of limitation to file suit against that crime, and hundreds of thousands of Kurds, which is a conservative figure other than the total killed “around 3.5 million Kurds” from 1915-03 in the hands of Turkish, And Iraqi regimes, which unfortunately includes your present regime in Ankara currently involved in sporadic military operation as news indicates; these crimes can not, and will not be forgotten nor will the perpetrators acquitted from murdering the innocent Kurds.
I assure you I’m right in my legal findings. No murderer, especially when many of them are still alive even from the 1915-1923 era still available to be brought to the courts of justice in the Hague, and other International Courts.
You may continue with your threats against Kurds, and their territorial integrity both within your occupied North Kurdistan, and also in a totally different Jurisdiction in South Kurdistan, but rest assure; that if this trend of your war of words tactic, and the present illegal incursions into South Kurdistan, looking for PKK members continue there shall only be one very sorry looking looser at the consequences of such ongoing aggression, and the looser will be the people of the last part of Ottoman Empire North of the North Kurdistan. Your land will be taken away from you as is the case in any prosecution for such crimes in democratic Jurisprudent, when Lands are confiscated for major illegal activities, which can describe Ankara’s actions “In The Least”, and your unlimited appetite for fame, and Expansionism shall come to a screeching halt.
I like to remind you in not falling victim in the traps made by some of our own very old politicians, who contributed, and continued the hegemonies of Churchill, and France. Their pockets may be full today, and they may be on a regular payroll by your establishment to keep your profiteering system created in 1923 at the expense of Kurdish nation of over 50,000,000 Kurds, but rest assure Sir; that they will all be identified no matter how tightly you help them to secure their bank accounts, and their names, which we already know many of these parasites’ names in fact serving as high levels capacities even after their retirement, often spent in writing books in favor of such an ongoing Tyranny.
Mr. Erdogan Bring Down Your Ottoman Empire’s Ego Act Democratic And Free North Kurdistan. The world has much to benefit with Freedom, and Justice, but much to loose engaging in loosing battles. The winners of the wars you are trying to whip up will not be Turkish people.
It may not be Kurdish people, since Kurds want no war with you nor seek new territories other than that of their own. So as you see; there has been a wrong committed against Kurds recently in the 1920s; and in the consequence of that great injustice not one, not one hundred, but 50,000,000 Kurds are now suffering. This pain, and wars will not go away, Unless wise Leaders like yourself make decisive, and wise decisions, and let go of Kurdish Territories without any questions askeLet go of Kurdish Territories the two colonial powers of Great Britain, and France Handed over to become a part of your Jurisdiction so that they use your services As their tool to exploit, and steal Kurdish oil in Kirkuk Kurdistan, and make you feel big, because it was not Turks though your Turkish masses, who have been persuaded in a wrong direction will probably follow you, and other Turkey’s Leaders in charge, because you are their Government, but this following trend may at one point turn against you, and Turkish people, as they know the truth, may no longer participate in your anti-Kurdish operations, and may seek a totally different regime in Turkey.This will not likely be in your favor, and that of other Turkish members of Government keeping in mind; that governments work only as servants to their people, and not to please themselves or their personal interests. Dear Mr. Erdogan, please avoid beating on the drums of war, and do not play with Kurdish people’s proud culture, and their sentiments.This will likely lead to a world war, which has no winning sides, keeping in mind; that Kurds now have powerful friends, and they will not stand by idle to watch you use the military aircrafts, and weapons we in U.S., and European countries have been either selling or giving it away to your nation. Mr. Erdogan please help peace to happen, and do not cause the suffering of Turkish and Kurdish peoples alike. The two live as neighbors, and this must be Respected by your words of peace, and not threats against the Kurdish main City “Kirkuk“, which will never give up its original Kurdish identity, and ownership. The best suggestion I can give you is to read my 3 books just published, so that there will not be too many misunderstandings. In our political lives we must sometime slow down, and read the facts to prevent chaos, and unnecessary wars. My books may be obtained by typing “Steve Tataii” at amazon.com or some other websites (Kirkuk Kurdistan: Kirkuk Kurdistan Has Been the Heart of South Kurdistan from Time Immemorial by Steve Tataii 2006). In fact the way I see it; the one, who should have promoted an Independent Kurdistan in all 4 parts should have started with you if you claim to be one of Democratic nations’ Leaders, and want to join others in EU as a member.In my opinion PKK should be given General Amnesty, and not provoked for more wars. Their label as terrorist is in question, since they are the only entity, who have tried to reason with your Regimes occupying North Kurdistan Through peaceful means, and not wars, but they were faced with the same old Ottoman style Iron Fist instead of peaceful negotiations. The Kurds are one of most peaceful people, and the only times to change that has been, when their homes, their territories, and their people have come under attack. No doubt if you do the right thing as I have suggested in this article; all PKK members as Mr. Ochalan has recommended will be in peace with Turkey‘s regime. You just can’t kidnap the Leader of a whole nation, and expect to make peace with them. To free Mr. Ochalan is a small step toward a peaceful directio
You have to consider the fact; that, while you have convinced our U.S. allies Label PKK a terrorist organization; those allies are appalled by Turkey’s own undemocratic treatment of 30,000,000 Kurds it has denied their very existence. So far your regime is pretending to have done some progress in bestowing a tiny amount of rights to Kurds, which has by the way not been delivered in any meaningful way to call it “Rights”. Instead your regime has just claimed 56 Kurdish Mayors to have been sentenced to 15 years in prison, and this Diatribe behavior continues on. Rest assure first of all; that if no Freedom seeking Group like PKK wasn’t in existence; there would have surely been another organization only with a different name, and what then? Would you have called Them “terrorists” as well? You see, if you could even convince your peers on this most crucial, and vital question of Kurds having no defense, and must have no rights; you will never convince our allies in Europe, and elsewhere of this failed point you have so selfishly been hanging on to. The whole world is watching your actions. Your recent words of threats against South Kurdistan, and engaged with her respected Leadership in what your words continue to defy the Law of Nations. Perhaps if you are not so arrogant, and as I have eluded in the beginning; without Ottoman empire’s kind of Ego; then why not accept the facts around you, and end this madness for once, and for all, because if you’re hoping to rob S. Kurdistan of their national wealth in Kirkuk, and anticipate to make money by bribing Syria, and other nations benefiting from Kurdish owned “Euphrates, and Tigris Rivers“, waiting for the right moment to regulate their water flow; you’re only wasting your time.The oil in Kirkuk Kurdistan has always been there from time immemorial, and it belongs to S. Kurdistan Kurds only. The Water from the mentioned Rivers too have always been there, and its water rights belong only to N. Kurdistan Kurds. Must I say more Sir?
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آمریکا مانع عمده‌ی رشد دمکراسی در جهان است

مصاحبه‌ی اختصاصی " رنسانس " با دکتر امیر حسن پور

شما در مصاحبه‌ها و نوشته‌هایتان بر خلاف افکار عمومی کردستان، با حمله آمریکا به عراق مخالفت بسیار کرده‌اید. اگر ممکن است دلایل این موضع‌گیری را ذکر نمایید.

دکتر امیر حسن پور : مخالفت من با حمله‌ی آمریکا به‌ عراق به‌ این دلیل بود که‌ معتقد بودم هدف حکومت بوش برداشتن صدام و جایگزین کردن رژیم بعث با یک دیکتاتوری از نوع مصر و اردن است . من معتقد بودم و هستم ، بر خلاف نظر بعضی از روشنفکران کرد ، که‌ دولت آمریکا ، چه‌ تحت کنترل جمهوریخواهان باشد چه‌ دمکراتها ، مانع عمده‌ی رشد دمکراسی در جهان است . پروژه‌ی خاورمیانه‌ی بوش ، پروژه‌ای عمیقا ضد دمکراسی و ضد انقلابی است و هدف آن کنترل منطقه‌ از نظر سیاسی و اقتصادی و نظامی ، تحمیل رژیمهای دیکتاتور و مستبد وابسته‌ به‌ آمریکا ، و سرکوبی نهضتهای آزادیخواهی و جنبشهای اجتماعی است و همه‌ی اینها در خدمت پروژه‌ی استقرار آمریکا به‌ عنوان تنها ابر قدرت دنیای سرمایه‌داری ، آن هم در دنیایی ذچار آشوب و شورش و بحران مداوم است ، دنیایی که‌ نه‌ آرام می گیرد نه‌ به‌ سادگی رام خواهد شد.

آمریکا در پروژه‌ی " تغییر رژیمی " که‌ در افغانستان و عراق پیاده‌ کرد با شکست مواجه‌ شده‌ است . در صورتیکه‌ در اجرای این برنامه‌ موفق میشد و حکومت مورد نظر خود را تحت ریاست راهزنانی چون احمد چلبی مستقر بکند ، هر نوع مخالفت با آن را تروریستی اعلام میکرد . در مورد حکومت کردستان سیاست بوش از آغاز این بود که‌ کردستان را در عراق ادغام کند . شاید یادتان باشد که‌ در جریان تدارک برای حمله‌ به‌ عراق در نشستی که‌ فرستاده‌ی آمریکا ( زالمای خلیلزاد ) با اپوزیسیون عراقی ( در کردستان عراق ) برگزار کرد ، اعلام کرد که‌ حکومت آینده‌ی عراق فدرالی نخواهد بود و این باعث اعتراض شدید کنعان مکیه‌ شد.

با وجود این که‌ آمریکا بر سر این مساله‌ عقب نشینی کرد و اعلام کرد که‌ بحث فدرالیسم مطرح خواهد بود ، من معتقد بودم اگر امریکا موفق بشود دولت مورد نظر خود را در بغداد مستقر بکند ، " حکومت منطقه‌ای کردستان " را بر می چیند و به‌ جای آن خودمختاری اداری بسیار محدودی را جایگزین می کند به‌ طوریکه‌ نگرانیهای ترکیه‌ مرتفع بشود و کردستان عراق نتواند به‌ مثابه‌ی پایگاه فعالیت پ‌ک‌ک و سایر احزاب و جنبشهای کرد و غیر کرد عمل کند .

امروز بعد از کشتار در حدود 600 هزار عراقی ، آواره‌ شدن تقریبا سه‌ میلیون نفر ، کشته‌شدن 2648 سرباز آمریکایی ( آمار 17 نوامبر 2006) ، که‌ بیشتر از کشتار 11 سپتامبر است ، دولت عراقی در کار نیست . نظام دولتی که‌ در قانون اساسی عراق طراحی شده‌ یک نظام تئوکراتیک و مردسالارانه‌ است و حکومتی که‌ بر اساس آن ساخته‌ شده‌ فقط در " منطقه‌ی سبز " و آن هم با اتکا بر نیروهای امریکایی میتواند براز وجود‌ کند.

اگر کردستان عراق امروز موفق شده‌ است که‌ موفقیت شبه‌ مستقل خود را حفظ کند و تا حدی تثبیت کند نه‌ به‌ خاطر دمکراسیخواهی دار و دسته‌ی بوش بلکه‌ بخاطر شکست پروژه‌ی دولت سازی آن در عراق است. حتی اگر ثبات سیاسی و نظامی در عراق بوجود بیاید ( به‌ اصطلاح مساله‌ امنیتی حل بشود) و همین دولتی که‌ در حباب " منطقه‌ی سبز " مستقر است بتواند کنترلش را بر سراسر عراق گسترش دهد ، و دارای ارتش کارآ بشود ، حکومت کردستان را به‌ شدت تحت فشار خواهد گذاشت ، ارتش عراق را به‌ بهانه‌ی حفظ امنیت مرزهای کشور عازم کردستان خواهد کرد ، پایگاههای نیروهای کرد مستقر در کردستان عراق را بر خواهد چید ، مساله‌ی کرکوک و سایر مسائل مربوط به‌ موفقیت فدرالی کردستان را با توسل به‌ خشونت و توطئه‌چینی " حل " خواهدکرد و امریکا هم ، اگر این حکومت را کنترل بکند ، از جنین اقداماتی پشتیبانی خواهدکرد.

آیا به نظر شما دلایل این همه ویرانی و کشتار در عراق با دخالت‌های دولت‌های منطقه و همسایگان عراق، با هدف پیشگیری از دخالت‌های آتی آمریکا در ارتباط نیست؟

دکتر امیر حسن پور : واضح است که‌ تمام کشورهای همسایه‌ و منطقه‌ نگران حمله‌ی آمریکا و عواقب آن بوده‌اند و هر کدام تلاش کرده‌اند که‌ به‌ طور مستقیم و غیر مستقیم در جهت دادن به‌ سیر وقایع دخالت کنند . برای مثال ایران از هر ترف تحت محاصره‌ی ارتش آمریکاست که‌ در کشورهای همسایه‌ و خلیج فارس و غرب آسیا و آسیای میانه‌ و قفقاز مستقر است و دارودسته‌ی بوش ایران را جزو " محور شرارت " اعلام کرده‌است و " تغییر رژیم " در ایران را جزو اهداف سیاست خارجی آمریکا اعلام کرده‌ است . با توجه‌ به‌ روابط عمیق و وسیع بین شیعیان عراق و ایران چگومه‌ میتوان انتظار داشت که‌ ایران در تحولات حراق دخالت نکند؟ سوریه‌ هم مانند ایران ، آماج حمله‌ی آمریکا و اسرائیل بوده‌ و هم اکنون قریب نیم میلیون آواره‌ی عراقی به‌ این کشور پناه برده‌اند. ترکیه‌ هم با وجود اینکه‌ در جبهه‌ی آمریکا و اسرائیل قرار دارد ، نگران است که‌ استقلال کردهای عراق یا حتی نظام فدرالی در عراق " تمامیت ارضی " ترکیه‌ " تجزیه‌ ناپذیری ملت ترک " را به‌ مخاطره‌ بیندازد. از این رو تعجب آور نیست وقتیکه‌ آمریکا و انگلیس و مغولستان و استرالیا و ژاپن و هلند و ده‌هها کسور دیگر نیرو به‌ عراق میفرستند ، کشورهای همسایه‌ هم در بلبشوی عراق دخالت بکنند.

آیا به نظر شما حمله‌ی آمریکا به عراق تنها به عراق محدود می‌ماند یا اینکه این حمله شروعی است برای تداوم برنامه‌های آمریکا در خاورمیانه؟

دکتر امیر حسن پور : بوش اعلام کرده‌ بود ، آنهم با قاطعیت تمام و با عزم جزم ، که‌ " محور شرارت " را بر میچیند و رژیمهای عراق و ایران را تغییر می دهد و همین برنامه‌ را در مورد سوریه‌ تعقیب میکرد . حالا بوش به‌ ایران و سوریه‌ متوسل میشود که‌ کشتی به‌ گل نسسته‌اش را " آبرومندانه‌ " نجات بدهد.

انعکاس خبرها و تحلیل‌ها در مراکز اطلاع‌رسانی کردستان عراق بیانگر این امر است که حمله‌ی آمریکا به عراق شرایط بهتری برای خلق کرد در این بخش از کردستان فراهم آورده است و این حمله را به عنوان رهایی خلق‌های عراق قلمداد می‌کنند؛ نظر شما در این باره چیست؟

دکتر امیر حسن پور : سه‌ سال و نیم بعداز سقوط صدام اگر کسی هنوز معتقد باشد که‌ عراقیها – کرد و غیرکرد - قدمی به‌ سوی رهایی برداشته‌اند برای من جای تعجب و نگرانی است. نتیجه‌ی حمله‌ی آمریکا و اشغال عراق برای مردم عرب و مسیحیان این کشور و سایر اقلیتها روشن است. پاکسازی قومی و مذهبی و دینی ، به‌ شیوه‌ای که‌ در تاریخ معاصر سابقه‌ نداشته‌ است ، در جریان است. نه‌ تنها مسیحیان در خطر نابودی هستند، مسلمانها هم از نظر سیاسی تجزیه‌ شده‌اند و حکومتهای تئوکراتیک محلی سربرآورده‌ و کشتار متقابل شیعه‌ و سنی هر روز و هر ساعت در جریان است. حتی شهرها و خیابان ها وکوچه‌ها نیز بر اساس تعلقات قومی و دینی تجزیه‌ شده‌اند. در حدود سه‌ میلیون آواره‌ و بیش از نیم میلیون کشته‌ و تعداد بێشماری زخمی و ناقص‌العضو بخشی از این کارنامه‌ ی جنگی آمریکاست. قتل و کشتار و آدم‌ربایی هم توسط نیروهای دولتی و هم گروههای غیر دولتی صورت میگیرد. شکنجه‌ی زندانیان به‌ مراتب وحشیانه‌تر از زمان صدام است. زنان عراق در شرایط وحشیگری لجام گسیخته‌ی نظام مردسالاری به‌ سر میبرند. کشتار روشنفکران و متخصصینو استادان دانشگاه جزو برنامه‌ی گروههای تروریستی است ....

در متن این وقایع ، بحث پیشرفتهای کردستان و شکوفایی سیاسی و اقتصادی آن در رسانه‌های کردستان و غرب مطرح میشود. برای مثال گفته‌ میشود که‌ در کردستان اقدامات عمرانی از قبیل ساختن جاده‌ و خانه‌ و فرودگاه و فروشگاههای بزرگ و سالنهای سخنرانی و دانشگاه و مدرسه‌ در جریان است. هیئتهای سیاسی و دیپلوماتیک و اقتصادی از کشورهای گوناگون ازچین و ژاپن گرفته‌ تا نروژ و انگلستان و فرانسه‌ از کردستان دیدن می کنند و حکومت کردستان با آنها قرارداد امضا میکند. امنیت نسبی برقرار است و دو حزب حاکم تا حدی بر سر توحید حکومت توافق کرده‌اند . بعضی از ناظران معتقدند که‌ اینها و بسیاری تحولات مشابه‌ چیزی جز پایه‌ریزی یک حکومت مستقل نیست.

در حالیکه‌ کار سازندگی (به‌ ویژه‌ ساختمان و جاده‌ و غیره‌ ) و اجرای پروژه‌های اقتصادی را می توان در کردستان مشاهده‌کرد ، نگاهی به‌ گزارشهای روزنامه‌ها و مجلات کردستان عراق چهره‌ی دیگری از این اوضاع را به‌ نمایش میگذارد. فقر ، بیکاری و فساد سیاسی و اداری ، انحطاط اقتصاد کشاورزی ، وضع نابسامان دهات ، گرانی ، قاچاق ، تورم ، کمبود خدمات بهداشتی و آب و برق ، و بسیاری مشکلات دیگر مردم را به‌ ستوه آورده‌است . اگر صدام حسین 4000 روستای کردستان را ویران کرد، امروز سیاست اقتصادی حکومت کردستان ، قاچاق و هرج و مرج اقتصاد سرمایه‌داری و واردات از ترکیه‌ و آمریکا و ایران و اقصی نقاط جهان هم اقتصاد روستا و هم اقتخاد شهر را به‌ ویرانی میکشاند . در چنین شرایطی ، 15 ساڵ بعد از کوتاه شدن دست رژیم بعث از کردستان ( در حدی که‌ شده‌ ) ، تضاد بین مردم و حکومت کردستان حدت یافته‌ است . اعتراض های پی در پی گواه بر این دارد که‌ اگر ستم ملی با سقوط سلطه‌ی رژیم بعث ، بر چیده‌ شده‌ ، اکنون ستم مستعمراتی بر خلق کرد اعمال میشود و در چنین شرایطی ، حکومت خودی و " ملی " همان راهی را در پیش میگیرد که‌ رژیمهای ستمگر " بیگانه‌ " می پیمودند.

اگر این تحولات را از دید منافع مردم زحمتکش بررسی کنیم ، از دید دهقانان و کارگران و زحمتکشان و مردم فقیر شهرها ، باید مجموعه‌ی تضادها را در نظر بگیریم و ببینیم در شرایط تقسیم مجدد قدرت ، جابجایی صاحبان قدرت ، چه‌ گروه و قشر و طبقاتی سود برده‌اند؟ آیا کل نظام ، یعنی نظم سیاسی ، اقتصادی ، اجتماعی ، تغییر کرده‌است یا تنها دسته‌ای جای دسته‌ی دیگر را در راس هرم قدرت به‌ دست گرفته‌ است .

انچه‌ روشن است ، ستم ملی و دید ملی گرایانه‌ ( ناسیونالیستی ) اجازه‌ نمی دهد سطحی بودن این تحولات ، یعنی گذار قدرت از دست یک گروه به‌ گروه دیگر ، درست درک شود . در نتیجه‌ شرکت کردها در حکومت ( تقسیم پست های دولتی بر حسب وزن گروههای قومی و مذهبی ) و نیز اذعان به‌ حقوق زبانی و فرهنگی کردها به‌ عنوان تغییر روابط قدرت و تغییر نظام ارائه‌ می شود در حالیکه‌ تداوم نظام اقتصادی و اجتماعی و سیاسی ، تضاد بین کارگر و سرمایه‌دار ، دهقان و زمیندار ، زن و مرد و دیگر تضادها در گرد و غبار انتقال سطحی قدرت نامرئی می شود.

بحث من این نیست که‌ مبارزه‌ علیه‌ ستم ملی نادرست یا بی اهمیت است . انتقاد من متوجه‌ آن گروه از روشنفکران کرد است که‌ تلاش می کنند تضاد بین دو نیروی ارتجاعی ، یعنی بوش و صدام ، را به‌ مثابه‌ی تضاد بین آزادی و استبداد عرضه‌ بکنند ، تضادی که‌ رهایی ملت کرد را از ستم ملی تضمین میکند. به‌ پیسواز ارتش آمریکا رفتن ، گلباران کردن سربازان آمریکایی ، رقص و پایکوبی کرد و خوشامد گفتن به‌ آنها به‌ نظر من چیزی نیست جز توهین کردن به‌ خلق کرد ، به‌ مردم امریکای لاتین ، هندوچین ، فلسطین ، مردم زحمتکش دنیا ، به‌ ویژه‌ مردم بومی آمریکا ، زحمتکشان آمریکا ، آزادیخواهان آمریکا و صدها سرباز آمریکایی که‌ معتقدند ارتششان در عراق جنایت میکند و از سرکت در این جنایت خودداری میکنند. گلباران کردن جنایتکارترین ارتش تاریخ معاصر را چگونه‌ میتوان توجیه کرد ؟ مسئولیت روشنفکران بسیار سنگین است . هنگامیکه‌ زندان ابوگرین صدام به‌ زندان ابوغریب امریکا تبدیل سد و زندانبانان و مقامات دولت آمریکا . از جمله‌ وزیر دفاع رامسفلد ، روی صدام را سفید کردند ، و در حالیکه‌ سازمانهای حقوق بشر آمریکا را متهم به‌ ارتکاب جنایات جنگی می کردند ، رسانه‌های جمعی ، روشنفکران و رهبران کرد تلاش کردند که‌ این جنایات را توجیه کنند.

این گروه از روشنفکران کرد حتی اگر توان یا عزم این را نداشتند که‌ مقدرات خلق کرد را به‌ منافع این قدرت امپریالیستی گره‌ نزنند ، میبایست این قدرت را داشته‌ باشند که‌ لااقل مانند بسیاری از روشنفکران و رسانه‌های جمعی آمریکا ، سکنجه‌ی وحشیانه‌ی زندانیان سیاسی را در ابوغریب و گوانتانامو محکوم بکنند. اما جهانبینی ناسیونالیستی روشنفکران کرد را به‌ دفاع از شکنجه‌گران و شکنجه‌ کشاند. نوبتی هم باشد نوبت ماست؟ یا اکنون که‌ آمریکا و کردها در یک جبهه‌ قرار گرفته‌اند ، بزرگترین دشمن آزادی خلقها به‌ فرشته‌ی آزادی تبدیل شده‌ است ؟ اگر در گذشته‌ هم آمریکا به‌ کردها " خیانت " کرده‌ است ، امروز تحت ریاست بوش و دار و دسته‌اش آزادی خلق کرد و رهایی همه‌ی انسانها را از سلته‌ی دیکتاتوری می طلبد. روشنفکران کرد برای بزک کردن رژیم بوش ، که‌ از تاریک اندیش ترین جناحهای سرمایه‌داری امریکاست ، به‌ توجیه " تئوریک " هم متوسل شدند. ادعا کردند که‌ گسترش سلطه‌ی آمریکا و جهانی شدن سرمایه‌ با دیکتاتوریهای خاورمیانه‌ در تضاد است و سرمایه‌داری بدون دمکراسی نمی تواند رشد بکند. گویا ؛ از دید امریکا و سرمایه‌ جهانی ، وجود دولتهای بزرگ مانع رشد اقتصاد بازار است و دولتهایی چون ایران و ترکیه‌ و عراق باید ، طبق خواست دار و دسته‌ی بوش تجزیه‌ بشوند و همه‌ی اینها شرایط تولد کردستان مستقل را به‌ وجود می آورد.

هنگامیکه‌ بوش و بلیر به‌ جزایر ازورز ( Azores ) پرتقال رفتند تا برنامه‌ی جنگ با عراق را اعلام کنند ( 16 مارس 2003 ) در نهایت انزوای سیاسی و دیپلوماتیک بودند . این جنگ ، جنگ بین دشمنان آزادی بود و بزرگترین جنبش ضد جنگ تاریخ از یک ماه پیشش دنیا را فرا گرفته‌ بود . اثری از سلاح کشتار جمعی نبود اما دارودسته‌ای که‌ حکومت آمریکا را در کنترل خود داشتند میخواستند به‌ هر قیمتی شده‌ رژیم عراق را تغییر بدهند. گاه و بیگاه برای توجیه سیاست خود و تظاهر به‌ حق به‌ جانبی اشاره‌ای به‌ کشتار دسته‌جمعی کردها و سیعه‌ها توسط صدام می کردند. به‌این ترتیب ستمدیدگی خلق کرد و شیعیان عراق بازیچه‌ای شد در دست جنگ افروزان .

در سوال پرسیدید که‌ چرا من " بر خلاف افکار عمومی کردستان ، با حمله‌ی آمریکا به‌ عراق مخالفت بسیار " کرده‌ام . امیدوارم توانسته‌باشم تا حدی پاسخ این سوال را بدهم. من خوب می دانم که‌ چرا افکار عمومی کردستان و روشنفکران کرد از جنگ آمریکا پشتیبانی کردند . ملتی که‌ در دوران سی و پنج سال حکومت بعث چیزی جز قتل و کشتار و شکنجه‌ و ویرانی و انفال ندید چگونه‌ میتواند از سقوط صدام و رژیمش – به‌ دست هر کسی که‌ باشد _ استقبال نکند؟ من خودم رژیم ترور و وحشت بعث اول را که‌ به‌مدی کوتاهی در قدرت بود به‌ یاد دارم و هنگامیکه‌ در ژوئیه‌ی 1968 دوباره‌ به‌ قدرت رسیدند وحشت کردم. من بارها در جلوی سفارتهای عراق در اوتاوا ، لندن و پاریس علیه‌ این رژیم تظاهرات کرده‌ام و به‌ شیوه‌های دیگر علیه‌ ان مبارزه‌ کرده‌ام . سرنگونی این رژیم و محاکمه‌ی سران آن به‌ اتهام ژنوسید ، جنایت علیه‌ بشریت ، جنایات جنگی ، زبانکشی و دیگر جرائم از آرزوهای من بوده‌ است.

با این همه‌ تبهکاری رژیم بعث ، که‌ کردها و شیعیان قربانیان اصلی آن بودند ، به‌ نظر من در مبارزه‌ علیه‌ آن بوش در ردیف صدام قرار دارد نه‌ علیه‌ او . من بوش و بلیر و امثالهم را متحد و متفق در مبارزه‌ علیه‌ استبداد و مورد مشخص آن – رژیم بعث - به‌ حساب نمی آورم. دولتهای آمریکا و انگلستان و بعضی دیگر در جریان جنگ عراق علیه‌ ایران از هیچ کمکی به‌ صدام کوتاهی نکردند و استفاده‌ از سلاح شیمیایی را علیه‌ کردها و علیه‌ ایران نادیده‌ گرفتند و حتی به‌ آن کمک کردند. دولت آمریکا حتی با وجود این که‌ از پروژه‌ی انفال با خبر بود ، نه‌ تنها صدای آن را درنیاورد بلکه‌ سعی کرد هر صدایی را خفه‌ بکند و رئیس جمهور وقت آمریکا ( ریگان ) یک میلیارد دلار اعتبار به‌ صدام داد . بعد از توافق ایران و عراق در الجزایر در مارس 1975 ، مطبوعات اروپا از آمریکا انتقاد میکردند که‌ واشنگتن به‌ کردها پشت کرده‌ و آنها را در مخمصه‌ گذاشته‌ و به‌ زبان صریح تر ، از پشت به‌ آنها خنجر زده‌است. هنری کیسینجر ، یکی از معماران این برنامه‌ ، در پاسخ به‌ این قبیل انتقادها و نیز در عکس العمل به‌ گزارش پایک ( pike ) که‌ کنگره‌ی آمریکا تهیه‌ کرده‌ بود ، اعلام کرد که‌ این قبیل عملیات ( استفاده‌ از کردها و بعد ول کردن آنها ) را نباید با کار خیریه‌ اشتباه کرد. آمریکا به‌ خاطر منافع خود از کردها استفاده‌ کرد و وقتی منفعتش ایجاب میکرد آنها را رهاکرد. نه‌ رهبران کرد و نه‌ روشنفکران مایلند از این تجارب استنتاج درست بکنند.

خلاصه‌ بکنم ، من در جریان برنامه‌ریزی آمریکا برای جنگ علیه‌ عراق و در طول جنگ با آن مخالفت کردم و کاملا متوجه‌ بودم که‌ نظر من ، خط سیاسی من ، در تقابل با افکار عمومی در کردستان است . اما شنا کردن خلاف جریان ضروری است ، به‌ ویژه‌ در این شرایط که‌ جریان بسیار قوی است ، همه‌ را با خود می برد و فرصت دوراندیشی به‌ کس نمی دهد . اما مساله‌ فقط دوراندیشی و آینده‌ نگری نیست.

من در طول زندگیم با ستم ملی مبارزه‌ کردم – ابتدا مانند بسیاری از قربانیان به‌ شیوه‌ای خود به‌ خودی و در چهارچوب سیاست و جهانبینی ناسیونالیستی. خوشبختانه‌ بعدها توانستم این دیدگاه و این چهارچوب سیاسی را پشت سر بگذارم . من هنوز علیه‌ ستم ملی مبارزه‌ می کنم ام انه‌ از دید ناسیونالیستی بلکه‌ در چهارچوب سیاست انترناسیونالیستی . معتقدم که‌ کردها یک " خلق " یا " ملت " هستند و سزاوار حق تعیین سرنوشت هستند و از آنجا که‌ مورد ستم بی حد و حصر قرار گرفته‌اند مجاز هستند که‌ این حق را به‌ اجرا بگذارند ، یعنی دولت مستقل خود را تاسیس بکنند . این حق یک حق دمکراتیک است و کسی که‌ آنرا از خلق کرد یا خلق فلسطین و دیگر خلقهای تحت ستم انکار بکند ، دمکرات نیست . کسی که‌ معتقد به‌ انترناسیونالیسم باشد و چنین حقی را بر یک ملت ستمدیده‌ روا ندارد از انترناسیونالیسم بوئی نبرده‌است.

اما تفاوت دید من با دید ناسیونالیستی همه‌ جانبه‌ است . من ، هم معتقد به‌ حق تعیین سرنوشت کردها هستم و هم معتقد به‌ وحدت و همزیستی خلق کرد با سایر خلقهای ایران و ترکیه‌ و عراق و سوریه‌ و قفقاز. این دوتا – اصل جدایی و وحدت – نه‌ تنها با هم در تضاد نیستند بلکه‌ لازم و ملزومند . با یهودی ستیزی ( آنتی سمیتیسم ) به‌ شدت مخالفم و به‌ همان شدت با رژیم اشغالگر و آپارتاید اسرائیل مخالفم و ایجاد یک دولت واحد فلسطینی را می طلبم که‌ در آن هر دو ملت فلسطین و یهودی و سایرین همزیستی بکنند. با سلام ستیزی رایج در غرب ( همه‌ی مسلمانها را تروریست و عقب مانده‌ به‌ حساب آوردن ) به‌ شدت مخالفم و در عین حال سکولار هستم و معتقد به‌ بنیاد دین نیستم. معتقدم که‌ اسلام ستیزی امروز مانند یهودی ستیزی سالهای 1930 میتواند به‌ نتایج خطرناکی مانند هولوکاست ( ژنوسید یهودیها و دیگران ) منجر شود. از مبارزه‌ی خلق فلسطین با قاطعیت پشتیبانی میکنم و معتقدم این مبارزه‌ در راس مبارزات آزادیخواهانه‌ی دنیای معاصر قرار دارد. به‌ نظر من اگر کسی ادعای آزادیخواهی بکند اما از مبارزه‌ی خلق فلسطین دفاع نکند ، یا از ستمدیدگی این خلق به‌ کلی بی خبر است یا ادعای آزادیخواهیش جای تردید است. من با امپریالیسم آمریکا مخالفم اما مردم آمریکا را متحد و متفق مردمی میدانم که‌ مورد تجاوز دولتشان قرار میگیرند . با تجاوز ارتش آمریکا به‌ حراق مخالفم اما از سربازان آمریکایی که‌ حاضر نیستند در جنگ عراق شرکت کنند و به‌ کانادا پناه برده‌اند پشتیبانی میکنم. من به‌ شدت مخالف هر نوع ترک ستیزی ، فارس ستیزی و عرب ستیزی هستم – آنهم در شرایطی که‌ دولتهای ناسیونالیست ترک ، فارس و عرب شدید ترین ستم ها را بر کردها اعمال کرده‌اند. ستم دولتها را ناشی از ستمگری این خلقها نمیدانم . جنگ و دعوا بین ناسیونالیسم کرد و ناسیونالیسم آذربایجانی را ( بر سر مرز یا هر مسئله‌ دیگری ) محکوم می کنم و به‌ هیچ وجه‌ نمیخواهم بخشی از آن باشم . این دو خلق سنت های همکاری و همدردی و همزیستی دارند و خود را متعلق به‌ این بخش از تاریخ می دانم. اینها و بسیاری مواضع دیگر ، سیاست من را از سیاست ناسیونالیستی متمایز می کند.

همچنان که می دانیم تا کنون معادلات جهانی به اشکال مختلف بر ضد حقوق و منافع خلق کرد بوده است، آیا حمله‌ی آمریکا به عراق توانسته است این معادلات را تا حدی بر هم زده و فرصت مناسب‌تری برای خلق کرد فراهم آورد؟

دکتر امیر حسن پور : همانطور که‌ اشاره‌ کردم کردها ، بر اساس اصول و موازین حقوق بین الملل ، یک " خلق " یا " ملت " به‌ شمار می روند و در نتیجه‌ مستحق حق تعیین سرنوست هستند و از آنجا که‌ مورد ستم سدید قرار گرفته‌اند می توانند این حق را اعمال بکنند.ام ادر حالیکه‌ حقوقدانها این حق ملت کرد را تایید می کنند ، آمریکا ، اتحادیه‌ی اروپا و سازمان ملل ، به‌ دلالیل سیاسی نه‌ حقوقی ، این حق ملت کرد را انکار می کنند.

آمریکا در پروژه‌ی جنگ 1991 که‌ هدفش پایان دادن به‌ اشغال کویت توسط عراق بود به‌ هیچ وجه‌ برنامه‌ی تجزیه‌ی عراق یا قصد کمک به‌ کردهای عراق را نداشت . ایجاد " حکومت منطقه‌ای کردستان " در سال 1992 نتیجه‌ی برنامه‌ریزی یا خیر خواهی آمریکا نبود وسیر وقایع بعد از جنگ منجر به‌ ایجاد آن شد. آمریکا در برنامه‌ی تغییر رژیم صدام در سال 2003 نیز قصد ایجاد کردستان مستقل را نداشت و در واقع یکی از اهداف آمریکا خاتمه‌ دادن به‌ بلاتکلیفی وضع عراق از جمله‌ بلاتکلیفی کردستان عراق بود به‌ این ترتیب که‌ حکومت شبه‌ مستقل کردستان را خاتمه‌ بدهد و آنرا در دولت عراق ادغام کند . اما این برنامه‌ هم به‌ علت شکست پروژه‌ی بازسازی دولت عراق عملی نشد و امروز بسیاری از ناظران معتقدند که‌ عراق عملا تجزیه‌ شده‌ است و این تجزیه‌ در آینده‌ ی نه‌ چندان دور رسمیت می یابد و در نتیجه‌ کردستان عراق مستقل می شود . اما آینده‌ی عراق هنوز بسیار ناروشن است . در هر حال ، استقلال کردستان عراق ، اگر عملی بشود ، محخول به‌ رسمیت شناختن حق تعیین سرنوشت کردهای عراق از طرف آمریکا یا دولتهای منطقه‌ یا ناسیونالیستهای عراقی نیست بلکه‌ ناشی از به‌ سنگ خوردن همه‌ی تیرهای آنهاست. البته‌ اگر آمریکا معمار این تجزیه‌ بشود ، ممکن است بحث حق تعیین سرنوشت را مطرح بکند. با توجه‌ به‌ آشوبی که‌ بر روابط بین المللی حکمفرماست ، موقعیت کردستان هر آن ممکن است از این رو به‌ این رو شود.

تردیدی نیست که‌ شرایط آشوب و بحران کنونی برای همه‌ " فرصت " به‌ وجود آورده‌ است. جای نیروهای انقلابی خالی است . رهبران کردهای عراق تلاش کرده‌اند که‌ در سوراخ و سنببه‌های نظام فرتوت و بحران زده‌ی بین المللی جای پایی برای خودشان و ملتشان پیدا بکنند. اما ، اگر کردستان در این شرایط و با این سیاستها به‌ استقلال برسد سرنوشتش بهتر از حکومتهای ملی ارمنستان ، تاجیکستان ، آذربایجان و یا دولتهای آفریقای که‌ در سالهای 1960 – 1970 مستقل سدند نخواهد بود . بعد از رفع ستم ملی در کردستان مستقل ، " ملت " در اثر فقر ، بی عدالتی ، نابرابری و دیکتاتوری مبارزه‌اش را متوجه‌ حکومت خودی خواهد کرد.

همچنان که دیده می‌شود آمریکا بین کردهای بخش‌های مختلف کردستان تفاوت قائل است؛ برای مثال موضع آمریکا در قبال نیروهای کردستان عراق و مبارزات کردهای کردستان ترکیه متفاوت است و علی‌رغم این بارها مخالفت خود را به اشکال مختلف با مبارزات خلق کرد در کردستان ترکیه نشان داده است. در عین حال آمریکا اجازه نداده است ترکیه از راه کردستان عراق به پایگاه های pkk حمله کند، دلایل این امر را چگونه ارزیابی می‌کنید؟

دکتر امیر حسن پور : سیاست آمریکا در مورد کردها نه‌ بر اساس ملاحظات حقوق بشر است ، نه‌ ملاحظات حقوق بین الملل و نه‌ ملاحظات اخلاقی . تنها معیار آمریکا – مهم نیست کدام جناح در کاخ سفید مستقر باشد – منافع سرمایه‌داری این کشور است ، آن هم طبق برداشت رئیس جمهوری و جناحی از سرمایه‌ که‌ ازاو پشتیبانی میکند. کردهای ترکیه‌ از دید آمریکا و رسانه‌های جمعی آن بد هستند زیرا دولت ترکیه‌ دوست و " متفق " آمریکاست. اختلافات مختصری که‌ بر سر نقش ترکیه‌ در جنگ عراق پیش آمده‌ به‌ هیچ وجه‌ این رابطه‌ را تغییر نمی دهد . خوبی یا بدی کردهای عراق و ایران نیز بستگی به‌ این داشته‌ است که‌ رابطه‌ی دولتهای عراق و ایران با آمریکا چطور بوده‌ است. تنها چیزی که‌ برای آمریکا مطرح نیست سرنوشت کردها ، آرزوها ، حقوق ملی ، رفاه و آسایش است.

آمریکا ، مانند ترکیه‌ و شاید بیشتر از آن ، مایل است بساط پ ک ک را برچیند. هر روزنامه‌نگار غربی ، حتی آنهایی که‌ تاریخ این روابط را نمی دانند ، به‌ آسانی درک می کنند که‌ آمریکا به‌ ترکیه‌ می گوید : " فعلا دست نگه دار چون وضع سیاسی و نظامی در عراق بسیار حساس است . دست نگه دار تا بعد با هم سرکوبشان کنیم ."

آیا به نظر شما دلایل مخالفت آمریکا با مبارزات خلق کرد در کردستان ترکیه، با این قضیه در ارتباط نیست که اوج‌آلان بدون اتکا به قدرت‌های خارجی و در ضمن مخالفت با آن ها، از راه‌های مختلف مشوق مبارزات انقلابی و رادیکال توده‌های خلق کرد بوده است؟

دکتر امیر حسن پور : به‌ نظر من نه‌ ! اوج آلان چند سال قبل از ربوده‌شدنش و به‌ خصوص به‌ دنبال آن خواستهایی را پیش کشیده‌ است که‌ به‌ مراتب محدود تر از خواستهایی بوده‌ که‌ رهبری کردهای عراق از سال 1961 به‌ بعد مطرح کرده‌اند. اوج آلان امروز حقوق فرهنگی و زبانی کردها را می طلبد. . مسئله‌ هم این نیست که‌ روزگاری خواستهای پ ک ک وسیع تر یا رادیکال تر خواستهای کردها ی عراق بوده‌ . هر دو هم درگیر مبارزه‌ی مسلحانه‌ بوده‌اند. سیاست واشنگتن در رابطه‌ با کردهای ترکیه‌ و فلسطینیها بر اساس نقشی که‌ دولتهای ترکیه‌ و اسرائیل در منطقه‌ بازی می کنند و جایگاه آنها در سیاست خارجی آمریکا تعیین و تدوین و جرا می شود. بر طبق قطعنامه‌های سازمان ملل ، ترکیه‌ باید اشغال قبرس شمالی را پایان بدهد و ارتش خود را از آنجا خارج بکند و اسرائیل باید از مناطقی که‌ در جنگ 1967 اشغال کرده‌ است خارج بشود . اما اگر آمریکا برای پایان دادن به‌ اشغال کویت علیه‌ عراق جنگ راه انداخت ، در عمل از اشغال قبرس شمالی و ساحل غربی رود اردن و نوار غزه‌ و ارتفاعات " گلان " پشتیبانی میکند.

به نظر شما آمریکا از این به بعد چه موضعی در قبال حکومت کردی موجود در کردستان عراق و دیگر نیروهای اپوزوسیون کردی اتخاذ می کند و چه برنامه‌هایی برای این مسئله دارد؟

دلتر امیر حسن پور : پیش بینی جزئیات سیاست آمریکا مشکل است چون شکستی که‌ در عراق و افغانستان متحمل شده‌ است نه‌ تنها تضاد بین مردم آمریکا و حکومت بوش را شدت بخشیده‌ بلکه‌ تضادهای درون حکومت امریکا ، تضادهای درون خود دار و دسته‌ی بوش و نیز تضادهای بین آمریکا و متحدینش را نیز وخیم تر کرده‌ است. نه‌ میتواند عراق و افغانستان را ول بکند و نه‌ امکان درگیری بیشتر دارد. در درون ناتو جنگ و جدال است بر سر اینکه‌ کدام دولت چند سرباز فرستاده‌ و این سربازها کجا مستقر شده‌اند و چه‌ نقشی – جنگی یا غیر جنگی – ایفا می کنند. در عین حال ، ارتش آمریکا ، قویترین ارتش امپریالیستی دنیا ، مایل نیست شکست مفتضحانه‌اش در ویتنام را دوباره‌ در عراق و افغانستان تکرار بکند . اما شواهد موجود حاکی از این است که‌ این شرایط نظامی به‌ آسانی دگرگون نمی شود . آمریکا، در صورت لزوم حکومت کرد را کنار میگذارد؛ یا جدایی کردستان را در صورت وابستگی کامل به‌ ترکیه‌ عمل میکند ؛ پ ک ک را سرکوب میکند ؛ از کردهای ایران و سوریه‌ استفاده‌ می کند : " منافع ملی " اگر ایجاب بکند ، همان راهی را می رود که‌ کیسینجر رفت.

آیا حمله‌ی آمریکا به افعانستان و عراق را می‌توان به مثابه‌ی جنگی تاریخی بین سرمایه‌داری جهانی و استبداد شرقی قلمداد کرد، و یا اینکه آمریکا با این حملات در صدد کنترل نیروهای ترقی خواه و انقلابی است؟

دکتر امیر حسن پور : حمله‌ی آمریکا به‌ افغانستان و عراق هیچ عنصری از تضاد بین سرمایه‌داری جهانی و استبداد را در برنمی گیرد. آمریکا و نظام سرمایه‌داری امروز بزرگترین مانع رشد دمکراسی در سطح جهان هستند ( جریانات عمیقا ارتجاعی مانند طالبان و بن لادن در سطح محلی گاهی متحد آمریکا و گاهی با آن شاخ به‌ شاخ می شوند). سرمایه‌داری در آغاز حیات خودش ، هنگامیکه‌ هنوز به‌ قدرت نرسیده‌ بود ( قرن 17 تا اواخر قرن 18) ، با فئودالیسم و استبداد فئودالی در تضاد بود ( در عصر روشنگری ) . اما بعد از این که‌ طبقه‌ی سرمایه‌دار به‌ قدرت رسید ( ابتدا در انگلستان و هلند و آمریکا و فرانسه‌ ... در نیمه‌ دوم قرن 18) به‌ مقابله‌ با دهقانها ، طبقه‌ی نوپای کارگر و مردم مستعمرات برخاست.

سرمایه‌داری نظامی استثمارگر است و این استثمار آنرا با برده‌داری و فئودالیسم هم‌سنخ میکند. سرمایه‌داری آمریکا، علیرغم اعلامیه‌ استقلال سال 1776 که‌ اعلام کرد " همه‌ی انسانها برابر آفریده‌ شده‌اند " ، با تکیه‌ بر برده‌داری و قلع و قمع مردم بومی قاره‌ی آمریکا و خالی کرد آفریقا از سکنه‌ رشد کرد. سرمایه‌داری انگلیس در مستعمراتش از جمله‌ در هندوستان با نظام فئودالی و عشیره‌ای و مردسالاری همزیستی میکرد و در حدود 600 امارت و حکومت خرد و درشت فئودالی را رهبری میکرد. آمریکا و انگلستان برای مقابله‌ با حکومت افغانستان که‌ وابسته‌ به‌ شوروی بود و به‌ منظور ایجاد یک ویتنام برای شوروی با مرتجعترین جریانها و عناصر همدست شد. همدست و همسوئی آمریکا با عربستان و رژیمهای مرتجع منطقه‌ زبانزد خاص و عام است.

نظام دولتی آمریکا ، که‌ بعصی از منتقدین آمریکایی آنرا نظام تک حزبی – دوفراکسیونی (Bi – factional one- party system ) می نامند ، در پنج سال اخیر تحت کنترل مرتجع‌ترین جریان تاریخ معاصر بوده‌ است . دار ودسته‌ی بوش قوانین و موازین بین‌المللی را زیر پا گذاشته‌اند ( آدم ربائی ، زندانهای مخفی ، شکنجه‌ ، ترور افراد ) و در همان حال مهمترین اصول دمکراسی بورژوایی – آزادیهای مدنی ، حقوق فردی ، حقوق بشر ، حقوق زنان ، تفکیک قوا ، جدایی دین و دولت و غیره‌ - را نقض کرده‌اند . به‌ صراحت می گویند : از آنجا که‌ امنیت ملی در خطر است ، باید دمکراسی را برای مدتی محلق بگذاریم. امروز تمام علائم اولیه‌ی ظهور فاشیسم را میتوان در آمریکا و دیگر کشورهای غربی مشاهده‌ کرد. نظام سرمایه‌داری معمولا در شرایط عادی ، هنگامیکه‌ بحرانی در بین نیست ، رژیم حکومتی مشهور به‌ " دمکراسی لیبرال" را ترجیح می دهند اما هنگامیکه‌ احساس خطر بکند به‌ راحتی به‌ نظم حکومتی فاشیسم متوسل می شود. نازیسم ، که‌ وحشیترین فرم فاشیسم بود ، از طریق انتخابات و همدستی لیبرالها و محافظه‌کارها با نازیها ، در سال 1933 در آلمان به‌ قدرت رسید و شش سال بعد جنگ جهانی دوم و کوره‌های آدم‌سوزی را راه انداخت. حتی در شرایطی که‌ نظام سرمایه‌داری با هیچ بحرانی روبه‌رو نیست و اقتصادش هم رونق دارد ، حکومتهای فاشیستی و شبه‌ فاشیستی ممکن است به‌ قدرت برسند. برای مثال در آمریکا در اوائل سالهای 1950 که‌ بحرانی در بین نبود دار و دسته‌ای به‌ رهبری سناتور مک آرتی جریانی شبه‌ فاشیستی راه انداختند که‌ مشهور به‌ مک ارتیسم است .

این ادعا که‌ سرمایه‌داری با دمکراسی عجین است یکی از افسانه‌های بزرگ سرمایه‌داری است. جالب این است که‌ روشنفکران کرد ناسیونالیست در شرایطی این افسانه‌ها را تبلیغ می کنند که‌ در غرب تحقیقات مفصل در مورد پیوند ناگسستنی بین دمکراسی و دیکتا توری منتشر می شود. برای مثال در سال 2005 ، کتاب مایکل مان Mann عنوان جانب تاریک دمکراسی : تبیین دمکراسی قومی ( انتشارات دانشگاه کمبریج ) (The Dark side of Democrasy : Explaining Ethnic Cleasing )

رابطه‌ی بین اعمال خشونت از قبیل پاکسازی قومی و دمکراسی را بررسی کرد و بحث مفصل راه انداخته‌ است و این تنها تحقیق در این زمینه‌ نیست . آمریکا در استفاده‌ از سلاح اتمی ( هیروشیما و ناکازاکی ) ، اسلحه‌ی شیمیایی ( ویتنام) ، بمبهای خوشه‌ای و دیگر سلاحهایی که‌ به‌ طور جمعی مردم را می کسد یا زخمی می کند ، راه انداختن کودتا ، قتل عام ، استفاده‌ از فضا برای مقاصد نظامی ، شکنجه‌ و ترور و جنایات جنگی و جنایت علیه بشریت مقام رهبری را به‌ خود اختصاص داده‌ . آمریکا ، در محافل بین المللی ، به‌ طور سیستماتیک با ممنوع کردن اسلحه‌هایی از قبیل مین و بمب خوشه‌ای مخالفت کرده‌ است و مدام اسلحه‌های خطرناکتر تهیه‌ میکند. جورج سوروس (

soros) سرمایه‌دار آمریکایی اخیرا گفته‌ است که‌ آمریکا بزرگترین مانع دمکراسی است – البته‌ دمکراسی سرمایه‌داری – ظاهرا روشنفکران کرد به‌ گرد پای سوروس هم نمی رسند.

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شایان ذکر است که‌ این مصاحبه‌ در تاریخ 25 نوامبر 2006 انجام شده‌است و قرار بر این بود که‌ در یکی از مجلات داخل کردستان یا ایران منتشر شود که‌ متاسفانه‌ چنین نشد ( به‌ دلایلی که‌ فعلا قابل گفتن نیست ) .

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آخرین اثر دکتر امیر حسن پور نوشتن مقاله‌ای درباره‌ی ژنوسید کردهاست که‌ با نام " کردها " است که‌ در انسیکلوپیدیای ژنوسید وجنایت علیه‌ بشریت منتشر شده‌ است .

‌همراه با همسرش دکتر شهرزاد مجاب تحقیقات و مقالات ارزشمندی درباره‌ی مسائل زنان و ناموس در کردستان و خاورمیانه‌ منتشر کرده‌است.

دکتر حسن پور تحولات خاورمیانه‌ و به‌ ویژه‌ کردستان را با وسواس بسیار دنبال می کند و از نگاه چپ و انترناسیونالیستی در تحلیل رویدادها استفاده‌ می کند.

Civilization vs. Purification

By: Dr. Kamal Artin

Dec 6^th 2006

Civilization and purification have a long history and are not limited to an empire, culture, race, and social class. Purification here might be substituted with a less permissible word that describes gratification of sexual urges of others for monetary gain. While civilization tends to promote long term strengthening of a society’s foundation, purification might serve the immediate gratification of individuals with unusual sexual urges. Some of the thinkers of an old school in the East, such as the proponents of ‘Hilmism’ – ideas of Dr Fereydun Hilmi, tend to put Western Civilization (WC) and its counterpart, Western Purification (WP), in the same boat. Although they have W in common, it is unjust to consider WP and WC as the same. Reviewing pros and cons of these two phenomena is beyond the scope of this satire. Instead I try to highlight some of the aspects of WP and WC that are relevant to the people of my origin.

Despite their shallow pockets, most of the people of my origin have been fighting for progressive universal values such as liberty, justice, and equality for all. Some of these people allied themselves with the W forces for a mutual immediate gratification; some did the same for adding to the dept of our contemporary global civilization. While WC tends to be more democratic and serve the humankind, WP has some gender biases and usually is at the service of mankind, as evidenced by a lack of a significant political power by the womankind. Interestingly like the womankind, the people of my origin have been repeatedly looked upon as the second class human beings by many leaders in the Middle East and few senior politicians from the Wild West. The latest confirmation of such an attitude is evident in the “Risk Intelligence” strategy suggested by David Apgar and a plan by retired politicians such as Hamilton and Baker. The plan of these boisterous seniors (BS) is known as the BS plan by many people of my origin in Kirkuk and other part of their divided land to four infamous Middle Eastern countries.

The short version of the recommendation of these “experts” is that the sociopath leaders of dominant ethnic groups in the Middle East, who have been able to deepen their own pockets very successfully, are entitled to keep the people of my origin as the second class citizens. These “experts” who suffer from selective blindness, refuse to see that stability can not exist without equality for all including for the people of my origin. They refuse to see that these people have no intention to give up in their fight for equality and independence until they have their own representative in the United Nations.

My recommendation to Mr. Apgar is to make sure he had an Apgar score above 7 out of ten 10 at birth, since his recommended additional two Arab states without one for the people of my origin is an insult to any free thinker with an IQ score of more than 70%. To the seniors in the Ham-Baker group, who know only the culture of hamburger and domination, I suggest they learn form their peer, the retired boxer George Forman, who has experienced domination and failure. Forman at this age is aware that he will be more successful in the business of grilling ham instead of unifying the artificial Iraq to remain a purified Arab state!

If Ham-Baker group and other W forces do not support the people of my origin in fulfilling their dream of democratization and independence, soon these people classify the Western civilizations as a purifying force that sells itself to gratify the urges of Arab, Turk, and Persian purifiers. Such classification would be an insult to all of those who voluntarily have left their darkened home in the East for the enlightened hope of the West.

محمود نزهت زاده

جنبش آذربايجان ـ راه حل دموكراتيك يا راه حل قومي ارضي؟

ناسيوناليسم مدنى، طرحى براى دستيابى شهروندان كرد به حقوق خويش

دكتر اميرحسين خنجی

پان‌توركيستها ‌و آرزوی پاره‌پاره شدن ايران

ريشه‌هاي ترک‌ستيزي در ايران

ماشاالله رزمي