16-03-2010
Rudaw - On the 22nd anniversary of the genocide in Halabja, the executive council of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the KCK, released a statement that the Kurdish issue in Iraq is still not resolved yet. "The mentality of the colonial state-nation, which performed the genocide in Halabja, still insists to survive to this very day."
According to the PKK, those, who want to maintain the hegemony of the states on Kurdistan on the basis of denial and ignorance, address the Kurds as a raw matterial to establish the Turkish, Persian and Arab nations. "Because of this mentality, the Kurds are coming face to face to the systematic policies of intense assimilation, oppression, intimidation, and force evacuation policies almost in all areas. Where the resistance of the Kurdish people cannot be broken and the policy of melting does not get any results, the colonial mentality’s destruction policies are still on the agenda today."
The PKK mentioned that still the disputed regions between the Erbil and Baghdad haven't returned yet to Kurdistan. "Almost , 40% percent of the territory of South Kurdistan [Iraqi Kurdistan] has not been yet included as a territory of Kurdistan. So, the problem is far from being fully resolved." The PKK thinks that because of the US withdrawal from Iraq, not 'only Arabs, but also Turkish colonialist want to apply the same orientation and policies on South Kurdistan.
The PKK also suggest that Turkey is again 'preparing an extensive military operation alone with the recent political practises of genocide'. It also added that Europe, "who gave chemical weapons to be used in Halabja for its economic and political benefits, is now, once again, arresting the Kurdish politicians and developing pressure on the kurds’ biggest TV channel, ROJ TV, in order to give support to the Turkish state’ colonialist and genocidel policies for its own regional benefits."
© Rudaw
