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    ANFAL AND LEADERS!
    By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
    Translated by Dr Kamal Mirawdeli

    KurdishMedia
    Updated: 9/13/2006 5:26:05 AM GMT

    By Qadir Nadir, from: Hawal, Sulaymaniyah, independent weekly newspaper
    in Sorani Kurdish, 9 Sep 06. p 3.

    Although Anfal was the greatest act of dishonour to our nation,
    it has been reduced by Kurdish leaders to such a degree that to
    criticize the Kurdish leaders for insulting [our martyrs] creates
    more reaction than the issue of their dishonoring of Anfal victims.

    Besides, the anniversary celebrations they organize for their parties
    are much more sumptuous and spectacular than the anniversary of Anfal
    and Halabja tragedies.

    In our country anything you write and say passes as truth. What is
    happening here is unprecedented in the history of any nation. People
    with background of serving the Ba'th party have now become
    theoreticians of our national security; people who participated in
    Anfal operations have been put in charge of running the small towns
    where Anfal survivors are living; a "writer" who sold his pen to
    Ba'th and was a Ba'thist agent is now in the prominent face of the
    journal of Kurdish government.

    I do not believe that the leaders of any other nations who have
    suffered genocide such as the Jews, the Armenians and the Rwanda
    people, have ever dared even to give shelter to even one perpetrator
    of genocide.

    It is only in our country that it is so easy to be a traitor and
    sell yourself and then find respect and position. Yes, still we can
    hear from the Kurdish officials some nationalist slogans, but when
    you look at what is happening in the areas which suffered Anfal,
    chemical attacks and Arabisation, you can realize clearly that what
    they say is all lies and deception.

    I read a story told by a woman who has survived Anfal.

    I could not help weeping passionately when I read what she said about
    her child. She says she had a little child who was ill. She was taking
    care of him and hugging him to her chest when an Arab officer came
    to take the child away from him. She hugged him even more closely
    to her heart. But the Arab officer kicked her and smacked her hard
    then took the child away. She says: Still there is a fire burning in
    my liver when I remember his last look and his last two words: Daye,
    Daye (Mum, Mum).

    I read this and could not stop my tears from flowing as I could vividly
    imagine this mother in her night of loneliness and helplessness. And
    then, thanks to our leaders, apart from tears what else can we
    do? Those leaders who have been sheltering the Anfalists for fifteen
    years, and think that the best projects for Anfal women is to force
    them to sell bread and eggs on the streets. And the government that
    so far has changed five cabinets but has worked more for the comfort
    and power of Anfalists than the victims of Anfal.

    Let everyone put herself or himself in the place of an Anfal woman. Can
    anyone even endure thinking even for few minutes? My own child had only
    a simple ailment and he called me in this way. This shattered my soul.

    Then how could be the state of the mother who heard her child for
    last time? How can she live on? How many terrible stories must she
    imagine every day? Has a dog eaten his child after he was killed?

    When I read this story I cannot help but think of all those people
    who shelter Anfalists and ignore the plight of these women as
    criminals too.

    I am sure the survivors of Anfal have suffered a lot in the last
    fifteen years under the Kurdish political rule. None of the leaders
    have ever visited them to tell them: the seats of power and prosperity
    we enjoy now are the result of your sacrifice. That is why we will
    become the fathers for your orphans. We will have even more kindness
    to them [than to our children] and we will never let them to be forced
    to wear torn shoes and ragged clothes. They must be as happy as our
    children. Instead of your [martyred] brothers, we will become your
    brothers and friends. We will not allow anyone to look at you with
    disrespect. In place of your fathers, we will make your pains and
    suffering the real daily concern of all our party members!

    Everyone knows that the process of Anfal and chemical attacks aimed
    at the elimination of the Kurdish people. Yet during 15 years of
    Kurdish rule no serious major project for serving and benefiting Anfal
    victims have been established although they enjoy annual revenues of
    several billion dollars. To add insult to injury, the perpetrators
    of Anfal roam freely ; they have power and they have roles. Also
    internationally nothing has been done to promote the cause of Anfal
    and bring onto international political agenda.

    Then can we say that these leaders any national honour and dignity
    in relation to Anfal?

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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