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possible meeting with the PJAK to discuss the unification of both parties, Azizi said, “If we decide to meet with PJAK we will meet with the PKK instead, because they are the same.”</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/11/13/rudaw-in-english-iranian-kurdish-leader-pjak-and-pkk-are-the-same/#more-13901" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13785"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/12/iraqi-kurds-offer-christians-a-sanctuary-reliefweb/#respond" title="Comment on Iraqi Kurds Offer Christians a Sanctuary | ReliefWeb">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 12th, 2011 by Nabil</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/12/iraqi-kurds-offer-christians-a-sanctuary-reliefweb/" 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians-in-iraq/" rel="tag">christians in iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-christians/" rel="tag">iraqi christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-kurdistan/" rel="tag">Iraqi kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iwpr/" rel="tag">IWPR</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kirkuk/" rel="tag">Kirkuk</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kurdistan/" rel="tag">Kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/local-government/" rel="tag">Local Government</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/patriotic-union-of-kurdistan/" rel="tag">patriotic union of kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/puk/" rel="tag">PUK</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sectarian-violence/" rel="tag">sectarian violence</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <div style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; padding-left: 5px; width: 48%; padding-right: 5px; float: right; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <p>They have fled in droves to escape sectarian violence, but now Kurdish politicians are helping some rebuild their lives.</p> <p>By Samah Samad – Iraq</p> <p>ICR Issue 380, 12 Oct 11</p> </p></div> <p>The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK, party is offering homes to poor Christian families uprooted by sectarian violence in what it says is a humanitarian gesture, denying suggestions the move is designed to boost its electoral base in the disputed Kirkuk region.</p> <p>Since the 2003 United States-led invasion, Iraqi Christians have often been the target of violence by Islamist extremists, forcing more than 200,000 of them to leave Iraq.</p> <p>In the worst outrage in October 2010, al-Qaeda-linked militants stormed a church in central Baghdad, killing over 60 people.</p> <p>In an effort, the PUK says, is aimed at alleviating their plight, the joint ruling party in Iraqi Kurdistan has provided 200 plots of land and 10,000 US dollar grants to low-income Christian families in a gated compound in Se Ganian (The Three Springs in Kurdish), a Kurdish village destroyed by Saddam, ten kilometres north of Kirkuk.</p> <p>While commentators acknowledge the plan is well-intentioned, they suggest it may be strategic too.</p> <p>“This initiative is humanitarian but also a political move to get more votes for [the PUK’s] next campaign in Kirkuk,” said Mohammad Ameen, a political analyst and a professor at Kirkuk university.</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/12/iraqi-kurds-offer-christians-a-sanctuary-reliefweb/#more-13785" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13096"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/22/analysis-iraqi-kurd-demos-threaten-image/#respond" title="Comment on Analysis: Iraqi Kurd demos threaten image">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 22nd, 2011 by Burhan Aydin</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/22/analysis-iraqi-kurd-demos-threaten-image/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Analysis: Iraqi Kurd demos threaten image">Analysis: Iraqi Kurd demos 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rancour to call for a complete dissolution of the autonomous government.</p> <p>"Politics in Kurdistan is a very emotive topic," said Ali al-Saffar, an Iraq analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit in London. "All sides have shown quite a lot of restraint, but if something were to happen it could boil over."</p> <p>Saffar noted that if protesters in Sulaimaniyah were attacked en masse by security forces, "the reputational damage will be immense."</p> <p>"Kurdistan has spent millions in Washington lobbying the US government, and if any crackdown were to happen, it would push back relations a great deal," he said.</p> <p>The three-province region, whose assembly makes decisions independent of Baghdad in most policy areas, is reputed for being markedly safer than the rest of Iraq, where hundreds still die on a monthly basis in insurgent violence.</p> <p>As a result, several foreign firms have invested in the region: the only international chain hotel in Iraq is in the Kurdish capital of Arbil, and several shopping malls have recently been built or are under construction with foreign financing.</p> <p>But high levels of unemployment, graft and nepotism in Kurdistan, which has been ruled by two-parties for decades, sparked street protests in Sulaimaniyah from mid-February, fuelled by uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.</p> <p>In three straight days of rallies this week more than 100 protesters were wounded when security forces attempted to disperse demonstrations.</p> <p>Kurdish security officials and local non-governmental organisations said more than 300 protesters had been detained since Saturday at the protests.</p> <p>Paris-based watchdog Reporters Without Borders noted in a statement on Thursday that it was "deeply shocked by a spate of arbitrary arrests," while Human Rights Watch in New York called on Kurdish authorities to "end their widening crackdown on peaceful protests."</p> <p>"The demonstrations started especially with the young generation," said Asos Hardi, a Sulaimaniyah-based Kurdish journalist. "The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt were the main spurs of the protest but, very quickly, a wider section of society joined in."</p> <p>"If you go back and read reports from international organisations about human rights, freedoms, management and corruption in Kurdistan, you can understand why people are angry with their leaders," added Hardi, who helped found two of the region’s biggest independent newspapers.</p> <p>He noted, however, that despite the poisonous views the protesters and government had of each other, there was still hope for dialogue.</p> <p>Sulaimaniyah, reputed as the intellectual capital of the region, has long been a bastion of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. A faction of the PUK, however, split in 2009 and went into opposition.</p> <p>In the regional capital of Arbil, by contrast, the Kurdistan Democratic Party of regional president Massud Barzani retains a tight grip.</p> <p>A poll conducted by the Washington-based International Republican Institute in December offered hints for the causes behind the anger in Sulaimaniyah.</p> <p>Some 62 percent of respondents in Sulaimaniyah said Kurdish MPs were not listening to their needs, and 35 percent said the economic situation in Kurdistan was either "somewhat bad" or "very bad," both of which were the highest in the region.</p> <p>"The KDP and the PUK must change," said Mahmud Othman, an independent Kurdish MP in the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad. "They need to change, definitely, but are they capable, are they serious? That is what remains to be seen."</p> <p>Regardless of possible change, independent journalist Hardi insisted the two months of protests marked a crucial shift in Kurdistan.</p> <p>"Everything in our history has been about protecting our existence as a culture, as a nation, as a people," Hardi said. "But now, these protests are about changing and improving our existence."</p> </blockquote> <blockquote><p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=45727" target="_blank" class="external">Middle East Online</a></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13093"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/22/%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%aa%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b6%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%ad%d8%b5%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%b8%d8%a7%d9%87%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%a8/#respond" title="Comment on اعتراضات على حصر التظاهرات في الملاعب">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 22nd, 2011 by Nur Hussein Ghazali</div> <h3><a 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The authorities should hold accountable those responsible for attacking protesters and journalists in Arbil and Sulaimaniya since April 17, 2011, including opening fire on demonstrators and beating them severely, Human Rights Watch said.</p> <p>Human Rights Watch also called on Iraqi authorities in Baghdad to investigate the detention and torture of a protester, Alaa Nabil, and to charge or release more than two dozen activists held in a prison in Baghdad’s Old Muthanna Airport. Central government and Kurdistan Regional Government authorities should revoke their recent bans on unlicensed demonstrations in Sulaimaniya province and on street protests in Baghdad, Human Rights Watch said.</p> <p>"Iraqi authorities in Kurdistan and Baghdad need to rein in their security forces and protect the right to protest peacefully," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "The Iraqi political authorities need to end their knee-jerk responses and stop banning protests, detaining demonstrators, and beating journalists."</p> <h3>Repression in Kurdistan</h3> <p>In the afternoon of April 18 in Arbil, the Kurdistan capital, dozens of armed men in civilian clothes attacked students from the Kurdistan region’s largest university, Salahadin, as they tried to hold a demonstration. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that the assailants also attacked journalists and at least one member of parliament.</p> <p>A third-year Salahadin student told Human Rights Watch that a large group of organized assailants wearing civilian clothes attacked the protesters with brute force.</p> <p>"We chanted ‘freedom, freedom,’ and then security forces came and abolished the demonstration," the student said. "They were hitting people by knives and sticks … and arrested 23 protesters."</p> <p>The assailants beat Muhamad Kyani, a member of the Iraqi national parliament for the opposition party Goran (Change) List, and his bodyguard while they were walking away from the demonstration. "There was no violence from us, nothing happened from our side to incite them," Kyani told Human Rights Watch. "I was on my way to the car when the Asayish [the official security agency for the Kurdistan region] threw me to the ground and started to kick and beat me." Kyani had two black eyes and other minor injuries from the beating. "They just wanted to intimidate and insult me and those with me," he said. "During the beating they swore at us and called me a traitor."</p> <p>Reporters without Borders documented attacks on at least 10 journalists covering the April 18 protest. The group said assailants also detained numerous journalists, including Awara Hamid of the newspaper <em>Rozhnam, </em>Bahman Omer of <em>Civil Magazine</em>, Hajar Anwar, bureau chief of the Kurdistan News Network, and Mariwan Mala Hassan, a KNN reporter, as well as two of the station’s cameramen.</p> <p>Shwan Sidiq of <em>Civil Magazine</em> was hospitalized after the assailants broke his hand. "My hand is broken, my head still hurts," he told Human Rights Watch. "What I saw was what in 1988 Saddam Hussein did against me and my family."<strong></strong></p> <p>Security forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government and the two ruling parties there, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, have used repressive measures against journalists since the start of the protests in Iraq on February 17. The local press freedom group Metro Center has documented more than 150 cases of attacks and harassment of Kurdish journalists since February 17. In March, Human Rights Watch interviewed more than 20 journalists covering the protests in Kurdistan.</p> <p>"Time and again we found that security forces and their proxies violate journalists’ freedom of expression through death threats, arbitrary arrests, beatings, harassment, and by confiscating and vandalizing their equipment," Stork said.</p> <p>In Sulaimaniya, daily clashes since April 17 have injured more than 100 protesters, journalists, and security forces. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that on April 17 security forces fired live ammunition into the air to clear protesters blocking a road, while others shot into the crowd indiscriminately, wounding at least seven demonstrators.</p> <p>"Police and security forces used everything to attack us," one protester told Human Rights Watch. "They opened fire, threw stones, used sticks and their Kalashnikovs to keep us from demonstrating."</p> <p>Protest organizers told Human Rights Watch that on April 18, security forces violently seized control of Sara Square, the center of daily protests in Sulaimaniya since February 17, and demolished the protesters’ podium. Security forces have fanned out across the city and have refused to allow protesters back to the site – renamed Azadi (Freedom) Square by demonstrators – resulting in clashes on April 18 and 19.</p> <p>On March 6, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/03/07/iraqi-kurdistan-prevent-attacks-protesters" class="external" target="_blank">masked assailants attacked demonstrators</a> and set their tents on fire but failed to evict protesters from the site.</p> <p>On April 19, protest organizers said, security forces detained dozens of students and others in and around Sulaimaniya, releasing most later in the day. One law undergraduate told Human Rights Watch that security forces attacked her and other protesters at the Dukan checkpoint on their way to Sulaimaniya.</p> <p>"We were forced to get off the buses," she said. "They threatened if we went [to the protest], we would be killed. A friend of mine asked them not to shoot us because we have pens and not guns, but when he raised his pen security forces opened fire and he was badly injured."</p> <p>Since then, this student said, she has received anonymous threatening phone calls telling her not to return to Sulaymaniya. Security forces raided Koya University, where she studies, and arrested two students. Their whereabouts remain unknown.</p> <p>The family of a prominent Kurdish writer and activist, Rebin Hardi, told Human Rights Watch that security forces severely beat him during and after his arrest on April 19 for participating in a protest in front of the Sulaimaniya courthouse. Photos taken after his release later that day viewed by Human Rights Watch showed severe swelling up and down the right sight of his body including his eye, arm, and thigh.</p> <p>Since February 17, clashes with security forces have killed at least seven civilians and injured more than 250 demonstrators in Kurdistan, but thousands have continued to protest alleged corruption and the political dominance of the KDP and PUK.</p> <p>On April 19, the government’s Security Committee for Sulaimaniya Province banned all unlicensed demonstrations. Legislation passed by the Kurdistan Regional Government in December gives authorities wide discretion in deciding whether to approve a license for a protest. The law’s wording is exceptionally vague and susceptible to abuse, Human Rights Watch said. Under article 3(c) of the law, authorities can reject a request if "the protest will damage the system or public decency."</p> <h3>Protests in Baghdad</h3> <p>Iraqi security forces in Baghdad are detaining and abusing activists in connection with protests against the chronic lack of basic services and perceived widespread corruption. On April 8, security forces in a vehicle with markings from the 43rd Brigade of the Army’s 11th Division, arrested Nabil at the end of a peaceful protest at Tahrir Square. He was immediately transferred to other security forces in civilian clothing, and held for a week.</p> <p>Released on April 15, Nabil, an organizer of the February 25 Group – one of several groups planning demonstrations in the capital – told Human Rights Watch that he had been beaten repeatedly while his hands were held behind his back with plastic zip-ties, and often while blindfolded. He said his captors also used a stun gun on his arms, chest, and back.</p> <p>"I heard them giving orders to shock us and hit us only below the neck, so there wouldn’t be any marks. They shocked me and hit me on the arms and back and chest," he said. "I got a cut on my head that was bleeding, and one of the guards yelled at another who caused it. ‘Why did you make him bleed? He is a son of a bitch and will make a scandal for us. Do not leave any marks. Hit him in places where there will be no marks.’"</p> <p>Nabil said his captors went through his cell phone and told him, "We know all these numbers, and we are watching and listening to all your calls.’"</p> <p>Nabil had previously been arrested on March 22, and Human Rights Watch witnessed signs of physical abuse immediately after his release from that detention. Human Rights Watch sent inquiries about Nabil’s arrest and others to the offices of the prime minister and security officials but has received no response from authorities.</p> <p>On April 13, security forces entered the adjoining offices of the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI) and the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), where the February 25 Group has held meetings in Baghdad. The security forces arrested one of the group’s members, Firas Ali, who has peacefully participated in several of the Tahrir Square demonstrations.</p> <p>A protester detained in early April for taking part in demonstrations at Tahrir Square told Human Rights Watch upon his release that he saw Ali inside a prison in Baghdad’s Old Muthanna Airport. The witness said Ali was being held with more than two dozen protesters, 20 of whom were detained on the day of the April 15 demonstration.</p> <p>Human Rights Watch is also concerned about Haydar Shihab Ahmad, also from the February 25 Group, who has been missing since April 1, just after taking part in that day’s demonstration in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. Members of his family told Human Rights Watch that they have made several inquiries at prisons in Baghdad in unsuccessful attempts to locate him, and have received no official reply about whether he has been detained.</p> <p>"Iraqi authorities need to release any peaceful protester held incommunicado and without charge, and account for those it is charging with a criminal offense," Stork said.</p> <p>Iraqi authorities have taken several steps to eliminate protests in the capital from public view. On April 13, officials issued new regulations barring street protests and allowing them only at three soccer stadiums.</p> <p>"We have specified Al-Shaab, Kashafa and Zawraa stadiums as permitted sites for demonstrations in Baghdad instead of Ferdus or Tahrir squares," Baghdad’s security spokesman, Major General Qassim Atta, said at a news conference televised by the state broadcaster, Iraqiyya TV. "Many shop owners and street vendors have called us and complained to us because demonstrations have affected their work and the movement of traffic."</p> <p>In late February, Iraqi police <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/02/17/iraq-investigate-protester-deaths" class="external" target="_blank">allowed dozens of assailants</a> to beat and stab peaceful protesters in Baghdad. In the early hours of February 21, dozens of men, some wielding knives and clubs, attacked about 50 protesters who had set up two tents in Tahrir Square. During nationwide February 25 protests, security forces killed at least 12 protesters across the country and injured more than 100. On that day, Human Rights Watch observed Baghdad security forces beating unarmed journalists and protesters, smashing cameras, and confiscating memory cards.</p> <p>On June 25, 2010, in response to thousands of Iraqis who took to the streets to protest a chronic lack of government services, the Interior Ministry issued onerous regulations that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/09/17/iraq-stop-blocking-demonstrations" class="external" target="_blank">effectively impeded Iraqis from organizing</a> lawful protests. The regulations required organizers to get "written approval of both the minister of interior and the provincial governor" before submitting an application to the relevant police department.</p> <p>Iraq’s constitution guarantees "freedom of assembly and peaceful demonstration."As a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Iraq is obligated to protect the rights to life and security of the person, and the rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly. Iraq should also abide by the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms, which state that lethal force may only be used when strictly unavoidable to protect life, and must be exercised with restraint and proportionality. The principles also require governments to "ensure that arbitrary or abusive use of force and firearms by law enforcement officials is punished as a criminal offense under their law."</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/04/21/iraq-widening-crackdown-protests" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq: Widening Crackdown on Protests | Human Rights Watch</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10180"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/30/glass-ceiling-for-female-kurdish-politicians/#respond" title="Comment on Glass Ceiling for Female Kurdish Politicians">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 30th, 2010 by Harith</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/30/glass-ceiling-for-female-kurdish-politicians/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent 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Rahim had her pen ready to note how many of the new ministers would be women.</p> <p>“I wanted to write down the names…because I expected more women than there were in the former cabinet,” Rahim, head of the Assuda Organisation for women’s rights, said.</p> <p>“When I saw there was only one woman appointed, I was shocked. I realised our government had taken another step back on women’s issues.”</p> <p>Dismal female representation in the KRG has become a widespread complaint from politicians and activists like Rahim. Critics say the Erbil government has backtracked on campaign promises to expand the role of women in the new administration.</p> <p>Following regional elections in July 2009, the KRG dissolved the ministry of women’s affairs and reduced the number of ministerial posts from 42 to 19. In the old cabinet, there were three women ministers and in the new just one. And while there are 37 female lawmakers in the 111-seat Kurdish parliament, activists claim the most senior posts are almost exclusively reserved for men.</p> <p>“We were three women in the last cabinet and we wanted to see this number grow. To have only one woman in the cabinet is an unfair share of power and it doesn’t reflect our society. We should have a real voice in power,” said Chinar Sadullah, the former minister of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs who was replaced by a man when the new cabinet was selected by KRG prime minister Barham Salih in October.</p> <p>“Political parties made promises about involving women in the government, but this was all election propaganda. I hope people don’t forget these promises. We are fed up with words and speeches. We want real steps to be taken for women.”</p> <p>Minister of Cultural Affairs and KRG spokesman Hadi Mahmud said there hadn’t been a deliberate move to restrict the number of women in the new cabinet.</p> <p>“It was not in our hands. All of the political parties that decided to be part of the KRG sent men as their candidates for cabinet positions. We could not force parties to nominate women for ministerial posts,” Mahmud said.</p> <p>Arif Rushdi, a senior official in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK, party, said Kurdish political groups are reluctant to nominate women for high office because they don’t seem to believe that they’re capable of holding such posts.</p> <p>“We want to make progress in women’s participation in leadership and we admit we have failed to do this,” Rushdi said.</p> <p>“The PUK will introduce a quota system for women at the next [party] congress that will include them in the party’s leadership committee.”</p> <p>Although a quota system requires that 25 per cent of seats in the Kurdish parliament be held by female lawmakers, few are in the top echelons of the parties they represent. Of all the Kurdish parties, only the opposition Kurdistan Islamic Union, KIU, has a woman in its party leadership.</p> <p>“The political parties have not given many leadership positions to women and in the media there is a negative view of women. We could bring so many Kurdish women out of their homes, if through the media and awareness campaigns women were given a chance to speak out,” said Bekhal Abubekir, head of the Kurdistan Sisters Organisation, a KIU-affiliated NGO formed in 1994 to promote women’s rights.</p> <p>According to Chinar Muhammad of the Rasan Organisation, an NGO devoted to empowering women, the male-dominated nature of Kurdistan society prevents women making real progress as politicians or professionals. She claimed that when women are appointed ministers, they tend to get <br/>“soft” portfolios rather than substantive ones.</p> <p>Asos Najeeb Mahmud, the current minister of social affairs, declined several interview requests and did not answer emailed questions from IWPR on women’s roles in the KRG. The now-defunct ministry of women’s affairs has been subsumed by the social affairs ministry.</p> <p>“Having one woman in the KRG means our role in government and the political process has declined. I agree with women who blame the political parties for not including more women. But at the same time, today’s women and activists must blame ourselves. We have not paved the way for women to have a greater role in government,” Muhammad said.</p> <p>The government has responded to stern criticism from activists and civil society groups on the lack of female cabinet ministers by proposing to establish a panel of women to advise policymakers.</p> <p>Mahmud said the KRG plans to announce in the coming days a 15-member board of women that will be overseen by the regional premier, Saleh.</p> <p>“Through this board, Kurdish women will have a real role in government and their voices will be heard. They will monitor all ministries in terms of women’s viewpoints and rights,” said Mahmud without giving a specific date for the board to begin operation.</p> <p>Former minister Sadullah has low expectations of the proposal.</p> <p>“I don’t think establishing this board will do anything. It is a public relations move. It will have nothing to do with solving women’s issues,” Sadullah said.</p> <p>Pakhshan Zangana, a former lawmaker and leading women’s activist who is said to be the leading candidate for the board’s secretary post, also has misgivings.</p> <p>“We still don’t know what the main agenda of the board will be. We insist that we don’t want the board to be compensation for the dissolution of the ministry of women’s affairs,” Zangana said.</p> <p>“But if the KRG is serious in supporting this board we can do many things for the women of Kurdistan.”</p> <p><strong>Shorsh Khalid is an IWPR-trained journalist in Sulaimaniyah. 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في العراق ابو ايوب المصري وابو عمر البغدادي عدد من زعماء التنظيم خلال عملية امنية نفذت في منطقة الثرثار التابعة لمحافظة الانبار. <br/>وقال المالكي إن العملية التي نفذتها القوات الامنية والتي قتل فيها ابو عمر البغدادي وابو ايوب المصري وزرعماء اخرون في القاعدة كانت برية وجوية وبمساعدة القوات الامريكية الجوية. <br/>واضاف أن قوات عراقية انتشرت على اهداف تم التحقق منها بموجب توجيهات صدرت من الخلية الاستخبارية والضربة كانت مشتركة من القوات الامريكية والعراقية وذلك وفق للأتفاقية المبرمة بين العراق ولولايات المتحدة. <br/>وحول طريقة التاكد من هوية البغدادي والمصري قال المالكي لدينا صور سابقة للأرهاببين وتم وضع الصور الى جانب الجثث وتم التحقق والتدقيق وساعدنا الجانب الامريكي في التأكد من المعلومات . <br/>من جانب اخر قال المالكي إن ما صدر من المحكمة المعنية بالنظر في الطعون شأن عراقي ويسير باتجاه قانوني، مشيرا الى ان القرار انتصار للقضاء واستقلاليته. <br/>واوضح المالكي ان قرار المحكمة يعد انتصارا للقضاء واستقلالية القانون وانتصارا لحق الشعب العراقي وما يخرج من عملية العد والفرز في بغداد سيكون ملزم للجميع ما دام سار وفق المسارات القانونية. <br/>من جانب اخر وصف زعيم ائتلاف دولة القانون رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي الحوار بين ائتلافه والائتلاف الوطني العراقي بانه عقيم ولم يصل الى نتيجة. <br/>وقال المالكي في مؤتمر صحافي أن الحراك السياسي بين الائتلافين بشأن الاندماج لم يصل الى نتيجة والحوار عقيم الى الان، مضيفا لكن لابد من الاستمرار به للوصول الى نتيجة نرجوها من اجل ايجاد العتبة الاولى على طريق تشكيل الحكومة المقبلة. <br/>وبشأن استبعاد احد الاطراف اذا ما تم اندماج الائتلافين اوضح المالكي أنه لاتوجد نية لاستبعاد طرف حتى يتحول الى المعارض او لعملية دعم الارهاب انما، والنية معقودة، حتى لو انجز الاتفاق بين الائتلافين هذا لايعني اننا سنمضي فقط في تشكيل الحكومة انما سنمضي في اتجاه التحالف الكردستاني وباتجاه القائمة العراقية وباتجاه التوافق وباتجاه وحدة العراق وكل القوائم التي شاركت وفازت بالانتخابات لكي تكون شريكة وفق قاعدة يمكن اعتمادها في تشكيل الحكومة.</p> <p><strong>الجيش الاميركي يؤكد مقتل قياديي القاعدة </strong></p> <p>بعد ساعة من اعلان المالكي، اكد الجيش الاميركي مقتلَ زعيمي 2تنظيم القاعدة في العراق ابو عمر البغدادي وابو ايوب المصري في عملية ٍعسكرية ٍعراقية ٍاميركية مشتركة في وقت ٍمُبكر من صباح الاحد. واوضح َالجيش في بيان ٍان قوةً عراقية بدعم ٍمن القوات الاميركية َقتلت ابرزَ قياديين لتنظيم القاعدة في العراق خلالَ سلسلة ٍمن العمليات ِالامنية المشتركة على بُعدِ عَشرة ِكليومترات جنوب ِغرب ِمدينة ِتكريت. <br/>واعتبر البيانُ الاميركي مَقتلَ الارهابيين ضربة ًكبيرة ًلتنظيم ِالقاعدة في العراق. </p> <h3><font color="#800000">الاخبار السياسية</font></h3> <p><strong>اعتراض الصدر يعرقل تحالف المالكي ـ الجعفري</strong></p> <p>بغداد: تعثر اعلان تحالف الكتلة البرلمانية الاكبر بين ائتلافي "دولة القانون" (بزعامة نوري المالكي) و"الوطني "(بزعامة رئيس الوزراء السابق ابراهيم الجعفري) بعدما اصطدم بتحفظات واعتراضات زعيم التيار الصدري مقتدى الصدر المنصبة على شكل وطبيعة ومكونات التحالف الجديد الذي سيتيح في وضعه الراهن احياء الجبهة السياسية بشكل يمكنها من تأليف الحكومة المقبلة، ما أثار انتقادات واسعة في أوساط القائمة العراقية (بزعامة اياد علاوي) التي رأت فيه عودة الى الاصطفافات الطائفية ومدخلا لعودة العنف بالرغم من تمسكها بحقها الدستوري في تشكيل الحكومة.واكد القيادي في الائتلاف الوطني محمد مهدي البياتي ان اعلان التحالف ما بين ائتلافه ودولة القانون تأجل الى اشعار آخر. وقال البياتي ان "اعلان التأجيل جاء بناء على طلب زعيم التيار الصدري مقتدى الصدر"، مؤكدا" فوجئنا بهذا الطلب برغم اكمال التشاور والحوار بشأن النقاط الخلافية بين الأئتلافين الوطني ودولة القانون".واعتبر زميله في الائتلاف الوطني فالح الفياض ان "المحادثات مع دولة القانون لم تتعثر بل توقفت لبعض الوقت بعد ان اكملنا كثيرا من الامور الخاصة بتحالف الائتلافين".واكد الفياض القيادي في تيار الاصلاح (بزعامة ابراهيم الجعفري) ان "الاتفاق على تشكيل التحالف واعلانه حصل قبل 3 ايام لكن بعض الاطراف طلبت التريث في الاعلان وتأجيله مؤقتا حتى استكمال الامور الخاصة بالاستحقاقات"، مشيرا الى ان" المحادثات سوف تستكمل خلال الاسبوع الحالي وهناك سعي جاد من كلا الطرفين للاتفاق على التحالف واعلانه".وقال الفياض ان "مسألة الترشيح لرئاسة الوزراء ما زالت احدى النقاط العالقة التي تم التريث بها حتى الاتفاق على الالية الخاصة التي يتم وفقها اختيار رئيس الوزراء" ، مشيرا الى ان "هذا الملف سيؤجل الى ما بعد اعلان التحالف وسيتم بحث اختيار رئيس الحكومة في المرحلة اللاحقة من المحادثات".واتهم عزت الشابندر القيادي في ائتلاف دولة القانون التيار الصدري بأنه تسبب بعرقلة تحالف ائتلافه مع الوطني، قائلا ان "الشروط المسبقة التي وضعها التيار الصدري هي التي تعرقل تحالف الائتلافين الذي سيكون نواة لتحالف وطني اكبر لان الائتلافين يريدان التحالف مع كل القوى الوطنية”.وأكد الصدريون في تصريح للقيادي في التيار الصدري بهاء الاعرجي ان طلب مقتدى الصدر تأجيل اعلان التحالف ما بين الائتلافين جاء لان "ارضية هذا التحالف ما زالت هشة ولم تضم جميع المكونات السياسية الاخرى".وقال الاعرجي ان"   الصدر يرفض خلق حالة من التخندقات والاصطفافات الطائفية التي تقتصر على مكون واحد"، مضيفا "اننا نريد لهذا التحالف ان يضم اكبر قدر من المكونات العراقية لا سيما الكتل الفائزة في المراكز الاربعة في الانتخابات البرلمانية".وأوضح الاعرجي "لم نكمل جميع الشروط والاتفاقات من اجل تشكيل حكومة الشراكة الوطنية الحقيقية ونحن الان في حاجة الى الاتفاق على آلية اتخاذ القرارات المصيرية وكيفية اختيار مرشح رئيس الوزراء وآلية التحالف مع الكتل الاخرى من اجل تشكيل الحكومة المقبلة وتوزيع المناصب السيادية وبالتالي اذا لم يتم حسم هذه الامور فسيكون هذا التحالف اضطراريا ومؤقتا"، مشيرا الى ان"الصدر اشترط على توجيه دعوات الى جميع المكونات السياسية من دون استثناء للمشاركة في هذا التحالف وخاصة القائمة العراقية".يذكر ان الائتلافين الوطني ودولة القانون أجريا خلال الايام الاخيرة جولات مكثفة من المحادثات لتشكيل تحالف مشترك كما تم تشكيل لجان خاصة بذلك وقد واجهت المحادثات في اليومين الاخيرين صعوبات خاصة في مسألة تسمية رئيس الوزراء وآلية اختياره، اذ يرفض التيار الصدري تجديد ولاية رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي مرة اخرى او ترشيح اي من الشخصيات المنضوية في حزب الدعوة الذي يقوده المالكي. وكان ائتلاف دولة القانون قد اعتبر المالكي مرشحه الوحيد لمنصب رئيس الوزراء بينما هناك عدة مرشحين في الائتلاف الوطني منهم مرشح التيار الصدري ابراهيم الجعفري ومرشحو المجلس الاعلى كل من نائب الرئيس العراقي عادل عبدالمهدي ووزير المالية باقر الزبيدي.الحراك الذي تشهده الساحة السياسية فتح شهية قيادات من لائحة علاوي باتجاه تكثيف الانتقادات الى التحالف المرتقب بين الوطني ودولة القانون والتاكيد على حقهم بتشكيل الحكومة العراقية الجديدة دون اغفال اعتماد كل الخيارات ومنها الانسحاب من العملية السياسية او تشكيل كتلة برلمانية معارضة في حال اندماج الائتلافين لتشكيل الكتلة الاكبر في البرلمان حيث انتقد نائب الرئيس العراقي والقيادي في القائمة العراقية طارق الهاشمي بعض الكتل السياسية لمحاولتها "تفسير بعض بنود الدستور بالطريقة التي تخدم أغراضها من أجل إجهاض الحق الشرعي والدستوري لكتلة العراقية بتشكيل الحكومة</p> <p><strong>الدملوجي: العراقية تثمن موقف الصدر الرافض لتشكيل كتلة طائفية </strong></p> <p>اشادت الناطقة باسم القائمة العراقية ميسون الدملوجي، الاثنين، بموقف زعيم التيار الصدري مقتدى الصدر ورفضه اندماج ائتلافي دولة القانون والوطني لتشكيل الكتلة البرلمانية الاكبر في مجلس النواب المقبل. <br/>وقالت الدملوجي في حديث نشرته وكالة (أصوات العراق) انهم يقدرون ويثمنون حرص مقتدى الصدر على مستقبل العراق، موضحة انهم علموا أن الصدر اعترض على تشكيل كتلة طائفية، حسب قولها. <br/>وكان القيادي في التيار الصدري بهاء الاعرجي قد اعلن في تصريحات صحفية أن الصدر يرفض خلق حالة من التخندقات والاصطفافات الطائفية التي تقتصر على مكون واحد، وانهم بريدون لهذا التحالف أن يضم اكبر قدر من المكونات العراقية لاسيما الكتل الفائزة في المراكز الاربعة في الانتخابات البرلمانية.</p> <p><strong>قيادي كردي: اجتماع الحزبين الكرديين هو لتأكيد التحالف الإستراتيجي بينهما </strong></p> <p>كشف القيادي في الاتحاد الوطني الكردستاني فريد اسسرد، الاثنين، عن ان اجتماع الحزبين السياسيين الكرديين (الاتحاد الوطني، والديمقراطي) هو للتأكيد على التحالف الاستراتيجي بين الحزبين. <br/>وأوضح اسسرد في حديث نشرته وكالة (أصوات العراق) ان الاجتماع الذي عقد الاحد بين المكتبين السياسيين للإتحاد الوطني الكردستاني والحزب الديمقراطي الكردستاني في أربيل، تم خلاله بحث عدة مسائل مهمة على مستوى إقليم كردستان والعراق وطرح فيه نفس القضايا السابقة والتي من أهمها التأكيد على التحالف الاستراتيجي بين الحزبين. <br/>وذكر أن الاجتماع تطرق ايضا إلى العمل على بذل الجهود في المرحلة الحالية من اجل تشكيل الحكومة العراقية.</p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 1.5em"><font color="#800000">الاخبار الامنية </font></span></strong></p> <p><strong>التطورات الامنية يوم الاثنين</strong> </p> <p>في التطورات الامنية، انفجرت عبوة ٌناسفة بعد ظهر الاثنين في منطقة الكفاءات شرق الموصل ما أسفر عن استشهاد مدنيين وإصابةثلاثة ٍآخرين بجروح ٍخَطِرة . وفي محافظة كركوك نجا العميد في الشرطة /مؤنس الحمداني/ من محاولة ِاغتيال ٍعلى يد مسلحين كانوا يستقلون سيارة ًمدنية في منطقة طريق بغداد وسط المحافظة ، ما ادى الى إصابته بجروح ٍمتوسطة نُقلَ على إثرها إلى مستشفى قريب لتلقي العلاج. اما في محافظة ديالى فاعتقلت الشرطة اربعة عشر شخصاً في شمال شرق بعقوبة بينهم عدد ٌمن عناصر الصحوات، كما أبطلت مفعول َثلاث ِعُبوات ٍناسفة خلال العملية. واوضحَ مصدرٌ امني ٌمسؤول للسومرية نيوز أن عملية َالدهم جرت على خلفية ِالانفجار الذي استهدف َمساءَ الاحد دوريةً للشرطة ما اسفرَ عن إصابة ِشرطي ٍبجروح . </p> <p>شهدت بعض المحافظات العراقية اليوم <span style="color: red">الاثنين</span> أحداثا أمنية عديدة راح ضحيتها عدد من الشهداء والجرحى، كما شهدت عدة عمليات عسكرية شنتها القوات الأمنية العراقية مستهدفة أوكار الإرهابيين والخارجين عن القانون ومخازن الاعتدة والذخائر والعبوات الناسفة في مناطق متفرقة، ونبدأها من العاصمة <span style="color: red">بغداد</span> اذ القت القوات الامنية التابعة لوزارة الداخلية اليوم القبض على ارهابيين اثنين في ناحية الطارمية شمال العاصمة بغداد. وان دورية تابعة للشرطة العراقية تمكنت من<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>القاء القبض على الارهابيين وبحوزتهما عبوة ناسفة يرومان زرعها بجانب الطريق في الناحية المذكورة ، مشيرا الى ان<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>الدورية قامت بتسليمهم الى الجهات المختصة ومن جهة اخرى اصيب جندي في الجيش العراقي قبل قليل بجروح اثر تعرضه لاطلاق نار قناص في منطقة حي العامل غربي العاصمة بغداد وان" الجندي المصاب كان ضمن دورية استهدفها مسلح مجهول بواسطة بندقية قنص ، مشيرا الى ان الجندي اصيب بجروح بليغة تم على اثرها نقله الى<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>احدى المستشفيات القريبة لتلقي العلاج ومن جانب اخر القت قوات الجيش العراقي<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>اليوم القبض على قيادي في تنظيم القاعدة الارهابي في منطقة شاخة (1) التابعة لناحية اللطيفية جنوب بغداد وان القاء القبض تمت في عملية دهم وتفتيش نفذتها قوات الجيش العراقي في المنطقة المذكورة. مبينا ان هذا الارهابي كانت قد صدرت بحقه مذكرة أعتقال رسمية من الجهات القضائية المختصة وفي محافظة <span style="color: red">الموصل</span> اغتال مسلحون مجهولون مدنيا عند خروجة من منزلة في حي التحرير شرق مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوىوان" مسلحون مجهولون قاموا بفتح نار اسلحتهم على المدني مما ادى الى استشهادة على الفور وقامت الاجهزة الامنية بتطويق مكان الحادث بحثا عن المسلحن وفي الموصل ايضا عثرت دورية تابعة للفرقة الثالثة شرطة اتحادية على عبوة ناسفة كانت مزروعة قرب احدى المدارس الابتدائية في منطقة الهرمات غرب مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى وان الدورية قامت باغلاق الشارع المؤدي الى العبوة واستطاع فريق المعالجةمن تفكيكها دون وقوع اي اصابات ومن جهة اخرى عثرت دورية تابعة للفرقة الثالثة في جيش العراقي على عبوة ناسفة كانت مزروعة قرب مدخل ناحية تل عبطةجنوب مدينة الموصل وذكر مصدر امني لمراسل وكالة انباء الاعلام العراقي واع </p> <p>ان الدورية قامت باغلاق الشارع المؤدي الى العبوة واستطاع فريق المعالجةمن تفكيكها دون وقوع اي اصابات كما عثرت دورية تابعة للشرطة محافظة نينوى على عبوة ناسفة مكانت مزروعة على احدى الشوارع الرئيسية في منطقة الخزرج غرب المدينة وقامت<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>الدورية باغلاق الشارع المؤدي الى العبوة واستطاع فريق المعالجة من تفكيكها دون وقوع اي اصابات وفي <span style="color: red">الرمادي</span> اذ بدأت القوات الامنية اليوم حملة امنية واسعة في مدينة الرمادي بحثا عن مطلوبين وان" قوات مشتركة من الجيش والشرطة تقوم بعملية تفتيش واسعة في منطقة الصوفية جنوب الرمادي والقرى القريبة منها بحثا عن مطلوبين ". واضاف المصدر ان" القوات اتخذت اجراءات امنية مشددة عند مداخل ومخارج المناطق المذكورة دون ان يعطي تفاصيل اكثر عن خلفية هذه الاجراءات مكتفيا بالقول ان الحملة لم تسفر حتى الان عن اي اعتقالات اما في <span style="color: red">تكريت</span> حيث تمكنت دورية من الشرطة العراقية من تفكيك عبوة ناسفة في قضاء طوز خورماتو 65 كم شرق مدينة تكريت ان العبوة كانت موضوعة على جانب الطريق في القضاء المذكور .مبينا ان الدورية<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>استدعت فريق هندسي من مكافحة المتفجرات تمكن من ابطال مفعولها دون وقوع خسائر مادية او بشرية وفي <span style="color: red">بابل</span> تمكنت دورية للجيش العراقي اليوم من تفكيك عبوة ناسفة في منطقة جرف الصخر التابعة لقضاء المسيب شمال بابل وان العبوة كانت موضوعة قرب من احد المدارس الابتدائية في البمنطقة<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>المذكورة .مبينا ان العبوة كانت مستهدفة طلبة المدرسة الابتدائية وقد تم رفعها دون حدوث اي خسائر او اضرار تذكر ,وفي <span style="color: red">الديوانية</span> رضت قاعدة ايكو التابعة لقوات الاحتلال الامريكي في الديوانية مساء اليوم الى قصف بصواريخ الكاتيوشا للمرة الثانية هذا اليوم ان" القاعدة التي تتمركز فيها قوات الاحتلال وسط مركز مدينة الديوانية تعرضت للقصف بصواريخ الكاتيوشا مساء اليوم . مبينا ان أعمدة من الدخان تصاعدت من داخل القاعدة دون معرفة تفاصيل عن حجم الخسائر بداخلها .</p> </p></div> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8939"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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Double suicide attack to election polls in Baghdad. The Shiites are divided into two camps, even the Kurds. The novelty of the secular party of Allawi. The game play is between a unitary and centralized state and a federal state. </p> </p></div> <p>Baghdad (<a title="AsiaNews" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/All-parties-in-Iraq-set-for-the-vote-17794.html" class="external" target="_blank">AsiaNews</a>) – Voting in parliamentary elections in Iraq starts today, with a part of the electorate called to the polls in advance of the March 7date. This amounts to 796 thousand people – including soldiers, prison officers and health care workers and hospitalized patients – divided into 450 polling stations opened specifically in all regions. Tomorrow it will be the turn of Iraqis abroad. In the meantime, suicide bombers attacked two polling stations in different areas of Baghdad killing at least seven people and wounding many others .    </p> <p>There are six candidates for the post  of prime minister: the current prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, Vice President Adel Abdel Mahdi, Minister of Finance Baqer Jaber Solage, Iyad Allawi, prime minister of the first post-Saddam Iraqi government, the controversial financier linked to the CIA and former deputy prime minister Ahmed Chalabi, and Interior Minister Jawad Bolani. This time the political spectrum of candidates in the running are very different than that of the last elections in 2005.  </p> <h3>The split of the Shiites </h3> <p>The United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), the Shiite coalition that won in 2005, no longer exists. Its dissolution has marked the split of the Shiites. The new coalition, the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), brings together parties along more confessional lines, such as the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) led by Ammar al-Hakim, a current of Moqtada al-Sadr and Fadhila party, but does not include the followers of the Da’wa Party who have remained loyal to al-Maliki, who has founded a new list. It is the Alliance for the Rule of Law, which aims to have a more nationalist and secular spirit (so much so that he tried to involve some Sunnis and Kurds), but has failed to unmark a suspected close reliance on the Islamic regime in Tehran .     The recent campaign de-baathification – which excluded 500 candidates, mostly Sunnis – put the outgoing premier in a bad light for having supported the move, causing him to lose credibility as a figure above the sectarian struggles.  </p> <h3>Allawi’s "secularists"</h3> <p>It’s a real debut at the polls, however, for the Iraqi National Movement (INM), led by former prime minister, Iyad Allawi (Shiite). The coalition also includes several Sunni formations and offers itself as the only real secular grouping. The INM is the greatest opponent to the INA and the list of al-Maliki, and was also struck by  the controversial de-baathification campaign.      </p> <h3>The Sunni Front </h3> <p>After the boycott of the vote in 2005, a choice that relegated them to the margins of decision making in the country, the Sunnis seem willing to take part in the elections. Sunni political groupings are present within INMA, but also on independent lists.  </p> <h3>The Kurds </h3> <p>Although the formations have maintained a strong Kurdish identity, even here the political landscape has changed. For the two historical parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), have been moine by Gorran (Movement for Change), led by a former member of the PUK, Pusherwan Mustafa. The movement that emerged in the regional elections in July, promotes itself as independent and the sole opponent of corruption and cronyism.    </p> <p>The idea now seems established that national reconciliation is no longer an issue of  resolving the conflict between Shiites and Sunnis, but between advocates of a centralized unitary state (the formation of al-Maliki) and proponents of a federal or confederal state (Kurds and of the Sunnis), between defenders of a secular approach (Allawi) and defenders of a religious approach. </p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/All-parties-in-Iraq-set-for-the-vote-17794.html" class="external" target="_blank">IRAQ All parties in Iraq set for the vote</a> – by Layla Yousif Rahema – <a title="Asia News English" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://www.asianews.it/en.html" class="external" target="_blank">AsiaNews</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8861"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/27/%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%8a%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%ac%d9%85%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%85%d9%82%d8%b1%d8%a7-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%ba%d9%8a%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d9%88%d8%b3%d8%b7-%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a8%d9%8a%d9%84/#respond" title="Comment on مسلحون يهاجمون مقرا للتغيير وسط اربيل">No Comments</a></span> Posted on February 27th, 2010 by Um Thalit</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/27/%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%8a%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%ac%d9%85%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%85%d9%82%d8%b1%d8%a7-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%ba%d9%8a%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d9%88%d8%b3%d8%b7-%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a8%d9%8a%d9%84/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to مسلحون يهاجمون مقرا للتغيير وسط اربيل">مسلحون يهاجمون مقرا للتغيير وسط اربيل</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/goran-movement/" rel="tag">Goran Movement</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/goran-movement-activists-attacks-on/" rel="tag">Goran Movement Activists - 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Change wants to make the situation bigger and shows Sulaimaniyah as an unstable city," said Arif Rushdi, a member of the PUK leadership committee. </p> <p>“In fact, the incidents were not related to political conflict. They were all personal.” </p> <p>According to Change, the first shooting occurred on December 4, when party activist Sardar Qadir was shot and wounded in his sister-in-law’s living room in downtown Sulaimaniyah. </p> <p>On December 12, Change member Rauf Zarayani was killed by gunmen in front of his home in the town of New Halabja. </p> <p>That same day, bullets were fired into the home of Change member Bakhtyar Shekh Muhammad, who lives behind Sulaimaniyah’s main police station. </p> <p>A week later, Change members Yasin Abdullah and Burhan Hama Ramazan were shot in Shanadar village outside of Sulaimaniyah. </p> <p>Then on December 30, the office of Change lawmaker Seewail Osman Ahmed was burned in the town of Koya. </p> <p>"I just want to know why only our members were shot and threatened?" said Safin Mala Qara, a senior Change official. "Most of the people in Sulaimaniyah are frightened and alarmed about the destabilised situation in their city. These incidents have put the city on the verge of civil war." </p> <p>Salahadin Babekir, spokesman for the opposition Kurdistan Islamic Union, KIU, told IWPR that although members of his party had been threatened in the past, “since the tension between PUK and Change, the threats [against KIU] have decreased considerably”. </p> <p>He said that the public was concerned about growing hostilities between Change and PUK. </p> <p>"The situation between Change and PUK makes people very upset,” he said. “If they continue like this there will likely be a civil war in the city." </p> <p>Iraqi Kurdistan’s deputy interior minister Jalal Karim said that locals should not assume the rash of violence will continue into the election period as the Kurdistan Regional Government, KRG, has launched a plan to provide safety during the vote. </p> <p>But others warn that a period of calm that followed a January 10 call from Kurdistan region president Masoud Barzani to end the political tension may be short-lived. </p> <p>"The political situation in Sulaimaniyah is almost ready to explode. The two sides (Change and PUK) are in a deep conflict over the attacks and I don’t think this calm is going to last,” said Yusuf Muhammad, a political science lecturer at the Sulaimaniyah University. </p> <p>“As the election gets closer, the tension heats up. Neither side nor the government can guarantee that there won’t be violence," Muhammad added. </p> <p>Najmaddin Qadir, head of the Sulaimaniyah police directorate, said investigations into the incidents had not produced any arrests or identified any suspects. </p> <p>A KRG parliamentary committee assigned to investigate the attacks has submitted a preliminary report claiming the security forces were negligent in investigating the attacks, according to Samir Saleem, a KIU legislator who serves on the committee. </p> <p>He said that security forces told committee members that the attacks were personal, without providing any evidence. </p> <p>Saleem said that the five-member committee, which includes two PUK and two Change members of parliament, was itself trying to determine whether the incidents were political or personal. </p> <p>However, Saleem said he felt it was unlikely that any action would be taken in the run-up to the elections. “If it turns out that a political party was behind these acts, people won’t vote for that party,” he added. </p> <p>“The investigations are not complete and it is not yet clear whether [the attacks] were personal or political,” Sulaimaniyah police chief Najmaddin Qadir said. “We are waiting for the results of the investigations." </p> <p>But Qadir Hamma Jan, director general of security in Iraqi Kurdistan and senior to Qadir, told IWPR that preliminary police investigations indicated that the crimes were personal attacks. </p> <p>"The incidents are not as you see in the media. The attacks in Sulaimaniyah were personal problems. The Change Movement has exaggerated the issue for their political purposes,” said Jan, who is also a senior member of the PUK. </p> <p>“We have not arrested anyone, but we are not careless about the security of our people.” </p> <p>Change was established last year by Nawshirwan Mustafa, a PUK co-founder who resigned from the party following a power struggle with PUK leader and Iraqi president Jalal Talabani. Mustafa has claimed the party was plagued by corruption and unwilling to enact reform. </p> <p>Competition between the PUK and Change has been intense since the newly-founded movement won 25 seats in the 111-member Kurdish parliament and swept Sulaimaniyah province in the July 2009 Kurdish parliament elections. While tensions between the two groups ran high, that election was relatively peaceful. </p> <p>Mustafa owns Wusha, a powerful and influential media company that includes local and satellite TV stations, a newspaper, a website and radio station which are enormously popular among Kurds, especially in Sulaimaniyah. </p> <p>The recent attacks on Change members were widely covered by these outlets and sparked a fierce media campaign between Change and PUK that dredged up the PUK’s history. </p> <p>Talabani accused Mustafa, his former deputy, of betraying the Kurds by ignoring Baathist threats to use chemical weapons on Halabja in 1988. He also held him responsible for the bloody civil war between the PUK and Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party in the 1990s. </p> <p>Mustafa denied the allegations and launched an attack on Talabani, blaming him for not standing up for Kurdish interests. </p> <p>On the Change website, Mustafa recently claimed that Talabani’s description of him as "anti-Kurdish" in an October conference was "a green light for attacks". </p> <p>As the media battle grew increasingly personal, Barzani and other party leaders stepped in to mediate between Change and PUK. </p> <p>The parties agreed to halt their feuding, but some worry that the tense truce will not hold as elections season approaches. </p> <p>“I do worry that there will be bloodshed between the Change movement and PUK,” said Hoshyar Karim Ahmed, a 70-year-old shopkeeper in Sulaimaniyah. “I hope things will be sorted out.” </p> <p>Some senior Change leaders feel the party is treated unfairly in Sulaimaniyah by PUK officials. For instance, most members of Sulaimaniyah’s security forces are PUK loyalists. </p> <p>“We don’t feel safe because the security forces and police are under the control of the political parties. We don’t have a military and [security] forces. We are a civil movement. We want the government to protect all parties without exception," former Kurdish Peshmerga commander and senior Change leader Mam Rostam told IWPR this week. </p> <p>“We have not exaggerated [the incidents] … our activists have been killed, abducted, beaten and fired [from their jobs] and they want us to be silent? One of our activists killed and it is exaggeration to say he was killed?" </p> <p>Some like Qadir, who was shot twice in the legs while drinking tea with his extended family on Iskan Street in Sulaimaniyah, are left wondering why they were targeted and by whom. </p> <p>"I don’t have any problems with the police, but I am concerned that they say it was personal assault. I don’t think so," he said. "I know myself better than anyone and I don’t have any problems with anyone." </p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126093456/http://iwpr.net/?p=icr&s=f&o=359692&apc_state=henh" class="external" target="_blank">Kurdish War of Words</a> By Shorish Khalid in Sulaimaniyah (ICR No. 321, 28-Jan-10) Shorsh Khalid is an IWPR-trained journalist in Sulaimaniyah. Hemin H Lihony is IWPR’s local editor in Sulaimaniyah. 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