South of Kurdistan crying out for strong leadership

By Mufid Abdulla:

Over the past month, even a political illiterate could have foreseen this crisis developing over the Iranian bombardment. The KRG has displayed a dithering inability to resist the large-scale bombardment of our borders which extended to affect several towns and cities and has to date displaced hundreds of families and killed several people. In these circumstances the absence of leadership has been painfully all too obvious. As the Kurdistan Tribune said recently, the President of Kurdistan and the President of Iraq are both Kurds and they should send a strong message of condemnation to the Iranian rulers. But this hasn’t happened.

The breakdown in negotiations between the opposition and the two ruling parties has been dragged into this maelstrom which threatens the region’s very survival. And throughout this critical month – which could yet trigger a new political crisis in Baghdad – what was Talabani, the President of Iraq, devoting his energy to? Politicians in Baghdad have not reached any agreement to set up a broad-based government. Baghdad’s politics are driven by loyalty to political parties and not to serving the people.

The Iranians are exploiting all this weakness. A woeful lack of leadership in the south of Kurdistan is making a perilous situation worse. People hate uncertainty and they sense no one is in control. Our political masters have failed to give sufficient attention to the crisis for weeks. The situation cries out for leadership by someone with the foresight and willpower to take the initiative.

One Response to South of Kurdistan crying out for strong leadership
  1. Dilshad Xoshnaw
    August 21, 2011 | 11:54

    Dear Kak Mufid,

    How do you know that “.. Kurdistan crying out for strong leadership”?

    Have you conducted any scientifically correct poll among the people in Kurdistan? or is it just a guts feeling?

    If it is the second case then I am with you, so to speak. This is also what I would assume.
    The trouble is:
    among the kurdish opposition and the vast majority of the so called intellectuals it is “chic” to say:
    “the time for strong leaders is over and there is no room for eternal leaders etc.”.

    As the current threats from Iran, Turkey and arab Iraq show, S-Kurdistan is in the most fragile situation and it will stay so for a long time to come.
    It’s existence is by no means secure and those enemies of Kurds are doing their best that this existence comes to an end very soon.

    This has been a fact for a long time, known to anyone who has been watching Kurdistan with an open eye and a clear conscious.

    To stand a chance against such enemies you have to work as hard as you can and build a strong country to have a secure space for your people to protect them from those dangers.

    So it is obvious that building this space should be the priority and not racing about who has the most modern demands for democracy and transparency, by imitating those advanced societies in the West.

    Most Kurds seem to be more concerned about having the most recent SUV’s and the most expensive houses and equipment, finding about the best massage palaces, rather than concentrating on building a kurdish house that our enemies can not destroy so easily to resume their Halabjas and Anfals etc.

    I am not sure what are you trying to tell by mentioning the breakdown of the negotiations between the PDK/PUK and the opposition?

    It is common believe among the opposition that PUK & PDK are to blame for the breadown.
    So my understanding is that you are putting the blame on PUK & PDK, sugegsting that there is less of the strong leadership you wish because they are not negotiating with the opposition.

    We have told everybody in 2009, who wanted to know, that there is an international complot against the kurdish people in general and S-urdistan in particular, led by Turkey, Iran and Iraq with the backing of many arab countries and the silence of the US & Britain.
    They have been very active since 2003 but their efforts were starting to crystallise after 2007-8 and their practical actions on the ground, that we see intensivized these days, has already started long ago.
    We firmly believe that the concentrated attacks of Gorran and the Islamists since the beginning of year 2011 are part of this plan and theer have been signs for a long time for everyone to see, who wanted to see.

    In our view the opposition and their political theatre is decisively weakening the already very weak KRG.

    Those 3 groups are dragging their feet and resist condemning Iran ad Turkey for their agression.
    They declare that it is the duty of the KRG to do so.
    Who is preventing Gorran & the 2 Islamist parties to condmen Iran & Turkey strongly and clearly specially that they are not bound about the limitations that a surrounded body like the KRG has?

    The 2 Islamist parties are clearly sympathising with Iran & Turkey and Gorran is trying to hide themselves.

    Gorran’s behaviour is not fitting how most of their supporters are trying to portray themselves as the real kurdish patriots fighting for the rights of the kurdish people.

    These issues and many others that don’t fit this spacce are clear evidence that the opposition are part of this great complot to put an end to the relative kurdish self rule in S-Kurdistan.

    So it is time for the kurdish people to wake up and rise up against those threats.
    100 thousends were on to the streets after february 17th but so far I havent seen that, not even in hundreds, protesting against those agressions from Iran & Turkey.
    The kurdish people better wake up now before it is too late.

    Slaw u Rez
    Dilshad Xoshnaw

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