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THE KURDISH DEMOCRATIC EXPERIMENT: AN ASSYRIAN TRAGEDY
By Majed Eshoo www.ana-ashur.com
Assyrian International News Agency
Aug. 16, 2006
Before beginning with the details of the tragedy and heinous crime
which was committed by some criminal terrorists from the Ikmala Kurdish
village when they murdered a young shepherd Akhiqar Giwargis Audisho
from the village of Gondkosa, it's very useful to address the matter
of the origin of Kurds, and the history of their presence in northern
Iraq or in Mesopotamia. Researchers and historians have disagreed
about the roots and historical origins of this people but a recent
study published by the Babylon d'Nineveh Institute for Historical
Studies, researcher Dr. Ghazi Abdul Ghafur published a study which is
the closest for acceptance amongst all other scientific theories and
studies. This research indicates that the Kurds most likely belonged
to the Bingra or Bingras tribes, a word meaning gipsy in the Indian
Sanskrit language. These tribes were scattered in the Indian desert
of Rajastan and spoke the Marwari which has great similarities with
the Kurdish language. The Bingra tribes were Aryans and they used to
move from one place to another looking for their livelihood, many of
them had moved to Persia and settled in Iran. Upon the Mongol invasion
to Baghdad in 1258, Hulagu brought a group of those gipsy tribes and
settled them in the north of Iraq and Turkey after they took Islam as
a religion. Hulagu as well as the Ottomans recruited the Kurds to kill
and expel the Assyrian and Armenian Christians (the infidels!!!) from
their prosperous homelands where the Kurds committed horrible, barbaric
massacres bringing about the Ottoman policy of Islamizing the region.
As for the word Kurdish, it has a story in history which we won't
mention for its ugliness, but we say to those who want to kurdify us
that it's not an honor and we are in no need for such a lineage. Our
pride and honor is that we are the proud inheritors of the Assyrian,
Sumerian and Akkadian civilizations, where the world bows before their
accomplishments and advancement in all fields of science and learning.
It's certain that not all Kurds belong to the aforementioned origins
but there are indigenous Assyrians, Armenians, and Jews (the Dhemmis)
who were forced to become Muslims and became Kurdish as a result of
mounting pressure and heavy taxes which were imposed on them by the
Ottoman and Islamic states; it was for them a manner of avoiding the
massacres which they were exposed to every now and then, but many of
them have adopted the customs and traditions of these gipsy tribes
of betrayal and treachery even towards their closest friends and
relatives, that's what took place in many Iraqi cities as Arabism
entered Iraq with Islam and the tribe Khazraj was one of the first
Arab tribes which settled in Iraq during the rule of Caliph Omar bin
al- Khattab when this tribe was sent to Iraq in order to resolve
a 40 years old dispute between the Aws and Khazraj tribes in the
Arabian Peninsula.
Many Arabs admit to their Assyrian, Sumerian, and Akkadian roots and
even those who don't acknowledge their origins still recognize the
Assyrians as the ancient forefathers of the Arabs, unlike the Kurds,
who want to move in the opposite direction of history and irrefutable
evidence when they accuse the Assyrians of being the "occupiers"
of the so-called (Kurdistan), when this word didn't exist before the
Mongol arrival to the land of Assyria (Ashur) and because the region
was vast and the Kurds were less in numbers there, hence they were
not able to kurdify the land all at once because that required a long
time thus they took advantage of any possible opportunity to spread
their domination and annex what lands they could to the so-called
(Kurdistan). As an example, in the 1947 census there's no mention of
any Kurd in the district of Dohuk (Nohadra) when it was inhabited by
the Assyrians and remnants of the exiled Jews. Today the Kurds boast
that Dohuk (Nohadra) is Kurdish as they want to annex the villages
of the Nineveh Plain to their so-called (Kurdistan) and if it's left
up to them they're dreaming of having their borders up to the Mount
of Hemreen.
No one knows the betrayal and treachery of the Kurds as the Assyrian
people do because there are countless true stories in this regard.
For example, there was an Assyrian who befriended a Kurd and they
both developed a brotherly relationship and wouldn't do any thing
whether good or bad if they were not together. One day the Assyrian
was walking while the Kurd walked behind him, when the Kurd said:" I
want you my friend to walk behind me and not before me". The Assyrian
was surprised at the request:" why my friend"? The Kurd responded:"
You know my friend we've been together for a long time during which
I never lied to you but recently whenever I see you walking before
me I have feelings of killing you and indeed many a time I proceeded
to take my dagger in order to kill you but some how I was able to
control myself, so I beg you not to walk before me because I feel that
I will betray our friendship one of these days and I will kill you"
That was the end of that friendship.
There isn't an Assyrian village which hasn't experienced the Kurdish
betrayal and it's rare to find an Assyrian who hasn't been betrayed
by the Kurds, that's why the Assyrians have a famous and well known
proverb which has been known from father to son:" If a Kurd becomes
a piece of gold don't place it in your pocket".
The Kurds as individuals, groups and leaders have proved that they
carry the germ of treason and betrayal in their blood, isn't it
enough of a proof the killing of the martyr Patriarch Mar Shimon
Benyamin in 1918 in Kunashahr, Iran at the hands of the criminal
Simko al-Shikaki in the latter's home when the Patriarch was there
to talk about an agreement..
Then the killings of both the martyr Francis Yusuf Shabo who was a
member in the Kurdish parliament and that of the fighter Lazar (Abu
Nassir) and their killer was given the right to belong to the Barzani
clan in order to protect him from being exposed for his many crimes.
Have we forgotten what they did to the shepherd Edward Khoshaba when
they dragged him out of jail to kill him in the most savage way with
the consent of the senior officials or when they threw the body of
Helen Sawa to the dogs after she was raped by a senior official in
the political bureau of Barzani's party.
There's no doubt also that they were behind the killing of Fransu
Hariri who was a member of their leadership, otherwise where is
the murderer who was supposedly arrested and they mentioned that he
belonged to the Islamic movement?
The Iraqi opposition had also experienced their betrayal in 1996,
when the Iraqi army was sent to the city of Arbil to chase out the
Talabani group following an agreement between Barzani and Saddam, and
the price was the heads of the opponents in the Arab parties. Today
all of Iraq is living their betrayal, treachery, and deceit feeling
the brunt of it all. The homeland has become a cheap commodity to
buy and sell in international markets.
However, not to dwell on the near and not so distant past; let us talk
about the present and how events developed resulting in the horrific
crime which lead to the killing of Akhiqar Giwargis Audisho who was
born in 1965, married with three daughters.
The Kurdish greed for the lands of the Gondkosa village is an old one
because of its rich and fertile soil with an abundance of water, this
greed in particular is that of the Kurds in the neighboring Ikmala
Kurdish village who have some agricultural fields but they are not
allowed into the pastures because they are not residents of Gondkosa,
however, after the uprising of March 1991, the Kurdish trespassing
on Gondkosa's lands increased resulting in many clashes during the
past few years between the people of the two villages, however,
the local authorities didn't solve the problem in order to deter
the trespassing Kurds but rather kept the conflict going even though
the villagers of Gondkosa presented several complaints to the local
authorities beginning with the department of agriculture in Mangish
and Dohuk (Nohadra) passing through the Governor of Dohuk (Nohadra),
the ministry of agriculture, the parliament, the Kurdish and Assyrian
political parties, Sarkis Aghajan, then Massoud and Nechirvan Barzani,
but not one of them was able to put an end to the Kurdish greed and in
less than a year the Kurdish transgressions from the Ikmala village
increased and turned into challenges and attacks with the help of
one called Abdul Rahman the director of agriculture in Mangish. The
Kurds bombed a water pump which was the property of a farmer called
William Khoshaba, and then another water pump was sabotaged followed
by throwing some irrigation pipes into the river while the authorities
didn't take any action.
A week before the crime two peasants Oshana and Nissan were surprised
to discover an area of five Donums of red melons burned completely due
to the use of a pesticide which exterminates all sorts of vegetation,
and even though They complained but the authorities claimed that the
suspects swore on the Koran that they weren't the culprits so they
were cleared. ((Yes, the Kurds have their own "Koran verses" aside
from all other Muslims. One says:" maleh fala halaleh" which means
the usurpation of Christian property is Halal (permitted). The other
one says:" bkosheh fala dijta bhashteh" which means kill a Christian
and you will go to paradise. The latter phrase was repeated until
recently during Friday prayers in Kurdish mosques and even though
today they have less faith in that phrase but they still apply it;
that's how they have been able to establish an area for themselves
at the expense of our Assyrian name and history))
The suspects were released in spite of the repeated threats which
they uttered in the presence of the Kurdish officials in Mangish that
there would be dire consequences if their wishes of getting the land
in Gondkosa weren't met. On the night of the horrific crime Tuesday
08-08, 2006 many of the village's young men were present at the center
of the Dohuk (Nohadra) governorate, where they had contacted Giwargis
the Deputy governor, who is also a church deacon and a lawyer in the
hopes that he would be able to solve their problem with the greedy
Kurds from the Ikmala village but unfortunately he was unable to do
any thing because his duties are limited to the propaganda of showing
the world that the Kurds are "good with our people" and to say there's
an Assyrian Deputy governor, this is what all other ministers and
parliamentarians do, in addition to our parties which are helpless
and their duty is nothing more than polishing the image of the Kurds
claiming (brotherhood with the Kurds) or (the democratic experiment!).
The killer Chirdel Tahir Khalid and his two friends who were in a car
took advantage of the absence of the village's young men in order
to ambush the martyr Akhiqar Giwargis Audisho shooting him with a
Kalashnikov rifle, one bullet hit him in his chest and another hit
his rifle causing it to malfunction so he wasn't able to shoot back.
The murder happened around 7:30 p.m. while the victim was tending
to his sheep, another shepherd saw what happened and hurried to the
scene of the crime which forced the killers to leave their car and
escape on foot towards the orchards in the north side of the village
because they couldn't take their car any more since the road passes
through the village. The villagers went out to see what happened as
they heard gun shots, they heard the shepherd calling for help saying
that Akhiqar was killed, the villagers brought a car and promptly
transported the victim to the Dohuk (Nohadra) hospital where he was
still conscious and talking about the killers and how he wasn't able
to use his rifle. At the Ikmala village, where the car had to pass,
an ambush made up of the killer's uncle and two of his cousins stopped
the car; they wanted to finish off Akhiqar thinking that his killer
was killed but when they learned that he had escaped to the northern
parts of the village they let the car pass. This clearly proves that
the crime was premeditated and it wasn't a coincidence.
The victim was admitted to the emergency ward at the hospital
and was entered to the operations room at 12:00 midnight when his
situation worsened and he passed away at 3:00 a.m. due to heart and
lung injuries.
The authorities had sent police forces to the two villages and they
detained the villagers of Gondkosa preventing them from leaving the
village in order to contain the events, and the first thing that
the police did in the interest of the killer was to remove his car
from the crime scene as soon as they arrived, then they began their
investigation trying to show the issue as a personal one not related
to Kurdish transgression on our Assyrian villages. Thus the pedants,
opportunists and Kurdish authorities began to spread the news that the
issue was a personal animosity between the murderer and the victim,
so let's ask one question only why the existing conflict wasn't solved
during the past 15 years of Kurdish rule?
It's worthy to mention that the continuous Kurdish transgressions on
our Assyrian villages are countless thus Gondkosa wasn't the first
but also Mangish was a scene of such Kurdish violations. Two thirds
of the village is occupied by the Kurds while only one third of the
land in the north corner of the village remains for its original
inhabitants and even in this part there are around 30 more Kurdish
houses. In the mid 1970's some neighboring Kurdish homes belonging
to Jaafar Bisvki were deported so he visited Bishop Hanna Qalu and
asked him to allow those deportees to live in the empty houses where
the owners were either working in Baghdad, in other cities or were
living outside of Iraq. The Bishop agreed thinking of it as an act
of charity, however, even though their villages were re-built but
those Kurds refused to leave the district of Mangish and insisted on
staying. Then the campaign of Sarkis Aghajan included the re-building
of Mangish so the inhabitants decided to demolish and re-build their
homes in order to clear out the remaining third of this inveterate
Assyrian area of Kurdish settlers.
The Kurds were not satisfied with robbing the two thirds of the
village, but also insisted on remaining in it and when the village's
inhabitants refused that, the Kurds turned to their usual ways of
threatening and intimidation, so some 20 armed tribal Kurds arrested
Paulus an engineer of Mangish and he was literally told: "You will
be killed if you don't build us new homes as the building campaign
is going on".
The engineer went to complain at the Dohuk (Nohadra) governorate
but the local authorities didn't take any legal procedures because
they never do if the trespasser or the offender is a Kurd!! When we
complain all we hear is sweet talk which doesn't prevent nor comforts.
This is the Kurdish government and this is how we're living.
We wonder what will happen to us in the future if they were to be
independent of Iraq and declare (their state!!?)
It's certain that our situation wouldn't be any better than it is
today, then let's hurry to unite and work together asking for our
rights and for a secure region to protect ourselves and our children
from murder, extortion, and terrorism which is haunting us even in
the so-called secure areas.
By Majed Eshoo www.ana-ashur.com
Assyrian International News Agency
Aug. 16, 2006
Before beginning with the details of the tragedy and heinous crime
which was committed by some criminal terrorists from the Ikmala Kurdish
village when they murdered a young shepherd Akhiqar Giwargis Audisho
from the village of Gondkosa, it's very useful to address the matter
of the origin of Kurds, and the history of their presence in northern
Iraq or in Mesopotamia. Researchers and historians have disagreed
about the roots and historical origins of this people but a recent
study published by the Babylon d'Nineveh Institute for Historical
Studies, researcher Dr. Ghazi Abdul Ghafur published a study which is
the closest for acceptance amongst all other scientific theories and
studies. This research indicates that the Kurds most likely belonged
to the Bingra or Bingras tribes, a word meaning gipsy in the Indian
Sanskrit language. These tribes were scattered in the Indian desert
of Rajastan and spoke the Marwari which has great similarities with
the Kurdish language. The Bingra tribes were Aryans and they used to
move from one place to another looking for their livelihood, many of
them had moved to Persia and settled in Iran. Upon the Mongol invasion
to Baghdad in 1258, Hulagu brought a group of those gipsy tribes and
settled them in the north of Iraq and Turkey after they took Islam as
a religion. Hulagu as well as the Ottomans recruited the Kurds to kill
and expel the Assyrian and Armenian Christians (the infidels!!!) from
their prosperous homelands where the Kurds committed horrible, barbaric
massacres bringing about the Ottoman policy of Islamizing the region.
As for the word Kurdish, it has a story in history which we won't
mention for its ugliness, but we say to those who want to kurdify us
that it's not an honor and we are in no need for such a lineage. Our
pride and honor is that we are the proud inheritors of the Assyrian,
Sumerian and Akkadian civilizations, where the world bows before their
accomplishments and advancement in all fields of science and learning.
It's certain that not all Kurds belong to the aforementioned origins
but there are indigenous Assyrians, Armenians, and Jews (the Dhemmis)
who were forced to become Muslims and became Kurdish as a result of
mounting pressure and heavy taxes which were imposed on them by the
Ottoman and Islamic states; it was for them a manner of avoiding the
massacres which they were exposed to every now and then, but many of
them have adopted the customs and traditions of these gipsy tribes
of betrayal and treachery even towards their closest friends and
relatives, that's what took place in many Iraqi cities as Arabism
entered Iraq with Islam and the tribe Khazraj was one of the first
Arab tribes which settled in Iraq during the rule of Caliph Omar bin
al- Khattab when this tribe was sent to Iraq in order to resolve
a 40 years old dispute between the Aws and Khazraj tribes in the
Arabian Peninsula.
Many Arabs admit to their Assyrian, Sumerian, and Akkadian roots and
even those who don't acknowledge their origins still recognize the
Assyrians as the ancient forefathers of the Arabs, unlike the Kurds,
who want to move in the opposite direction of history and irrefutable
evidence when they accuse the Assyrians of being the "occupiers"
of the so-called (Kurdistan), when this word didn't exist before the
Mongol arrival to the land of Assyria (Ashur) and because the region
was vast and the Kurds were less in numbers there, hence they were
not able to kurdify the land all at once because that required a long
time thus they took advantage of any possible opportunity to spread
their domination and annex what lands they could to the so-called
(Kurdistan). As an example, in the 1947 census there's no mention of
any Kurd in the district of Dohuk (Nohadra) when it was inhabited by
the Assyrians and remnants of the exiled Jews. Today the Kurds boast
that Dohuk (Nohadra) is Kurdish as they want to annex the villages
of the Nineveh Plain to their so-called (Kurdistan) and if it's left
up to them they're dreaming of having their borders up to the Mount
of Hemreen.
No one knows the betrayal and treachery of the Kurds as the Assyrian
people do because there are countless true stories in this regard.
For example, there was an Assyrian who befriended a Kurd and they
both developed a brotherly relationship and wouldn't do any thing
whether good or bad if they were not together. One day the Assyrian
was walking while the Kurd walked behind him, when the Kurd said:" I
want you my friend to walk behind me and not before me". The Assyrian
was surprised at the request:" why my friend"? The Kurd responded:"
You know my friend we've been together for a long time during which
I never lied to you but recently whenever I see you walking before
me I have feelings of killing you and indeed many a time I proceeded
to take my dagger in order to kill you but some how I was able to
control myself, so I beg you not to walk before me because I feel that
I will betray our friendship one of these days and I will kill you"
That was the end of that friendship.
There isn't an Assyrian village which hasn't experienced the Kurdish
betrayal and it's rare to find an Assyrian who hasn't been betrayed
by the Kurds, that's why the Assyrians have a famous and well known
proverb which has been known from father to son:" If a Kurd becomes
a piece of gold don't place it in your pocket".
The Kurds as individuals, groups and leaders have proved that they
carry the germ of treason and betrayal in their blood, isn't it
enough of a proof the killing of the martyr Patriarch Mar Shimon
Benyamin in 1918 in Kunashahr, Iran at the hands of the criminal
Simko al-Shikaki in the latter's home when the Patriarch was there
to talk about an agreement..
Then the killings of both the martyr Francis Yusuf Shabo who was a
member in the Kurdish parliament and that of the fighter Lazar (Abu
Nassir) and their killer was given the right to belong to the Barzani
clan in order to protect him from being exposed for his many crimes.
Have we forgotten what they did to the shepherd Edward Khoshaba when
they dragged him out of jail to kill him in the most savage way with
the consent of the senior officials or when they threw the body of
Helen Sawa to the dogs after she was raped by a senior official in
the political bureau of Barzani's party.
There's no doubt also that they were behind the killing of Fransu
Hariri who was a member of their leadership, otherwise where is
the murderer who was supposedly arrested and they mentioned that he
belonged to the Islamic movement?
The Iraqi opposition had also experienced their betrayal in 1996,
when the Iraqi army was sent to the city of Arbil to chase out the
Talabani group following an agreement between Barzani and Saddam, and
the price was the heads of the opponents in the Arab parties. Today
all of Iraq is living their betrayal, treachery, and deceit feeling
the brunt of it all. The homeland has become a cheap commodity to
buy and sell in international markets.
However, not to dwell on the near and not so distant past; let us talk
about the present and how events developed resulting in the horrific
crime which lead to the killing of Akhiqar Giwargis Audisho who was
born in 1965, married with three daughters.
The Kurdish greed for the lands of the Gondkosa village is an old one
because of its rich and fertile soil with an abundance of water, this
greed in particular is that of the Kurds in the neighboring Ikmala
Kurdish village who have some agricultural fields but they are not
allowed into the pastures because they are not residents of Gondkosa,
however, after the uprising of March 1991, the Kurdish trespassing
on Gondkosa's lands increased resulting in many clashes during the
past few years between the people of the two villages, however,
the local authorities didn't solve the problem in order to deter
the trespassing Kurds but rather kept the conflict going even though
the villagers of Gondkosa presented several complaints to the local
authorities beginning with the department of agriculture in Mangish
and Dohuk (Nohadra) passing through the Governor of Dohuk (Nohadra),
the ministry of agriculture, the parliament, the Kurdish and Assyrian
political parties, Sarkis Aghajan, then Massoud and Nechirvan Barzani,
but not one of them was able to put an end to the Kurdish greed and in
less than a year the Kurdish transgressions from the Ikmala village
increased and turned into challenges and attacks with the help of
one called Abdul Rahman the director of agriculture in Mangish. The
Kurds bombed a water pump which was the property of a farmer called
William Khoshaba, and then another water pump was sabotaged followed
by throwing some irrigation pipes into the river while the authorities
didn't take any action.
A week before the crime two peasants Oshana and Nissan were surprised
to discover an area of five Donums of red melons burned completely due
to the use of a pesticide which exterminates all sorts of vegetation,
and even though They complained but the authorities claimed that the
suspects swore on the Koran that they weren't the culprits so they
were cleared. ((Yes, the Kurds have their own "Koran verses" aside
from all other Muslims. One says:" maleh fala halaleh" which means
the usurpation of Christian property is Halal (permitted). The other
one says:" bkosheh fala dijta bhashteh" which means kill a Christian
and you will go to paradise. The latter phrase was repeated until
recently during Friday prayers in Kurdish mosques and even though
today they have less faith in that phrase but they still apply it;
that's how they have been able to establish an area for themselves
at the expense of our Assyrian name and history))
The suspects were released in spite of the repeated threats which
they uttered in the presence of the Kurdish officials in Mangish that
there would be dire consequences if their wishes of getting the land
in Gondkosa weren't met. On the night of the horrific crime Tuesday
08-08, 2006 many of the village's young men were present at the center
of the Dohuk (Nohadra) governorate, where they had contacted Giwargis
the Deputy governor, who is also a church deacon and a lawyer in the
hopes that he would be able to solve their problem with the greedy
Kurds from the Ikmala village but unfortunately he was unable to do
any thing because his duties are limited to the propaganda of showing
the world that the Kurds are "good with our people" and to say there's
an Assyrian Deputy governor, this is what all other ministers and
parliamentarians do, in addition to our parties which are helpless
and their duty is nothing more than polishing the image of the Kurds
claiming (brotherhood with the Kurds) or (the democratic experiment!).
The killer Chirdel Tahir Khalid and his two friends who were in a car
took advantage of the absence of the village's young men in order
to ambush the martyr Akhiqar Giwargis Audisho shooting him with a
Kalashnikov rifle, one bullet hit him in his chest and another hit
his rifle causing it to malfunction so he wasn't able to shoot back.
The murder happened around 7:30 p.m. while the victim was tending
to his sheep, another shepherd saw what happened and hurried to the
scene of the crime which forced the killers to leave their car and
escape on foot towards the orchards in the north side of the village
because they couldn't take their car any more since the road passes
through the village. The villagers went out to see what happened as
they heard gun shots, they heard the shepherd calling for help saying
that Akhiqar was killed, the villagers brought a car and promptly
transported the victim to the Dohuk (Nohadra) hospital where he was
still conscious and talking about the killers and how he wasn't able
to use his rifle. At the Ikmala village, where the car had to pass,
an ambush made up of the killer's uncle and two of his cousins stopped
the car; they wanted to finish off Akhiqar thinking that his killer
was killed but when they learned that he had escaped to the northern
parts of the village they let the car pass. This clearly proves that
the crime was premeditated and it wasn't a coincidence.
The victim was admitted to the emergency ward at the hospital
and was entered to the operations room at 12:00 midnight when his
situation worsened and he passed away at 3:00 a.m. due to heart and
lung injuries.
The authorities had sent police forces to the two villages and they
detained the villagers of Gondkosa preventing them from leaving the
village in order to contain the events, and the first thing that
the police did in the interest of the killer was to remove his car
from the crime scene as soon as they arrived, then they began their
investigation trying to show the issue as a personal one not related
to Kurdish transgression on our Assyrian villages. Thus the pedants,
opportunists and Kurdish authorities began to spread the news that the
issue was a personal animosity between the murderer and the victim,
so let's ask one question only why the existing conflict wasn't solved
during the past 15 years of Kurdish rule?
It's worthy to mention that the continuous Kurdish transgressions on
our Assyrian villages are countless thus Gondkosa wasn't the first
but also Mangish was a scene of such Kurdish violations. Two thirds
of the village is occupied by the Kurds while only one third of the
land in the north corner of the village remains for its original
inhabitants and even in this part there are around 30 more Kurdish
houses. In the mid 1970's some neighboring Kurdish homes belonging
to Jaafar Bisvki were deported so he visited Bishop Hanna Qalu and
asked him to allow those deportees to live in the empty houses where
the owners were either working in Baghdad, in other cities or were
living outside of Iraq. The Bishop agreed thinking of it as an act
of charity, however, even though their villages were re-built but
those Kurds refused to leave the district of Mangish and insisted on
staying. Then the campaign of Sarkis Aghajan included the re-building
of Mangish so the inhabitants decided to demolish and re-build their
homes in order to clear out the remaining third of this inveterate
Assyrian area of Kurdish settlers.
The Kurds were not satisfied with robbing the two thirds of the
village, but also insisted on remaining in it and when the village's
inhabitants refused that, the Kurds turned to their usual ways of
threatening and intimidation, so some 20 armed tribal Kurds arrested
Paulus an engineer of Mangish and he was literally told: "You will
be killed if you don't build us new homes as the building campaign
is going on".
The engineer went to complain at the Dohuk (Nohadra) governorate
but the local authorities didn't take any legal procedures because
they never do if the trespasser or the offender is a Kurd!! When we
complain all we hear is sweet talk which doesn't prevent nor comforts.
This is the Kurdish government and this is how we're living.
We wonder what will happen to us in the future if they were to be
independent of Iraq and declare (their state!!?)
It's certain that our situation wouldn't be any better than it is
today, then let's hurry to unite and work together asking for our
rights and for a secure region to protect ourselves and our children
from murder, extortion, and terrorism which is haunting us even in
the so-called secure areas.