The world is turning, Baghdad is burning

By Mufid Abdulla:

While the whole world is turning to bring in the New Year in a few days time, the region of Iraq has become an abyss of terror. In one day alone, on Thursday 22 December 2011, sixty people were killed and hundreds injured. It was no coincidence that this took place directly after the American withdrawal: it was a calculated atrocity.

This war in Baghdad has been going on for the last eight years. We have to ask ourselves: why so cruel a civil war and why can’t these two communities in Baghdad live alongside each other? Antoine Garapon suggests that because love is the opposite of hate, the most fraternal of communities can become the most murderous. The greatest happiness that once existed between all communities has now become a living hell. This is the Baghdad civil war. What happened yesterday was a massacre and the perpetrators deserve condemnation and punishment. The civil war in Baghdad has been fuelled by several factors: injustice in the legal system, corrupt political leaders and de facto dictatorship. How could it be possible to have a dictatorship in a democracy? It is like having our winter in July. But it is the sad reality. We have a Shia-dominated government that is responsible for most of the crimes against humanity that are happening in Iraq.

We must ask ourselves: who are the rulers in Baghdad? It is the group of Shia nationalists who have the same principles as the Ba’thist Saddamist Party. The Prime Minister Nuri Maliki’s history shows him as the worst leader in the Arab world for his atrocities against his own people. If you watch your own people being massacred on a daily basis for the last so many years and do nothing, this is a crime. Nuri Maliki and his henchmen should be brought to justice for their mismanagement of Iraq. What hope can we place in this regime when, after all the sacrifices made by the Iraqi people, it abstains in the UN vote against the brutal Syrian regime? And most shameful of all are the Americans who have supported this regime for the last eight years.

It is a difficult time for the Shia-led government because, in the past, hatred of Saddam brought all the Shias together. What can unify them now? Under the Maliki regime many innocent people been killed, tortured and imprisoned. This civil war has to end, and the only way for it to end is to implement a democratic system led by technocrats not Shias. Iraq needs justice for its people and to bring criminals to trial and ask Maliki how it has been possible for him not to control the mayhem and bloodshed over the last six years of his premiership.

For the last eight years not a single positive protocol has been signed between Baghdad and the KRG to resolve key issues such as Article 140, oil, the budget, etc.

The KRG leaders should not get involved in the Iraqi conflict: it is a walk in a minefield. An arrest warrant has been issued by the Maliki government and this is nothing but part of the tit-for-tat war between the two sects of Iraq. The KRG does not owe any Iraqi politicians any favors: Kurdistan has not reclaimed any of the disputed areas which were cleansed by Saddam’s regime.

Copyright © 2011 Kurdistantribune.com

 

One Response to The world is turning, Baghdad is burning
  1. haval
    December 24, 2011 | 15:30

    Today’s Guardian editorial pagebranded Nuri Maliki as a dictator and said”Dictatorial shia dominated goverment in Iraq” Nuri maliki is a dictator and has no mistake about it ,his root is Dawa Party which is most famous for brutality in 2006 against exBasthist Saddamist man .

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