KurdishMedia, UK
March 16 2007
Have Your Say: The international responsibility for genocide of Kurds
3/16/2007 KurdishMedia.com
In the memory of Halaja: we must not forget Halabja!
London (KurdishMedia.com) 16 March 2007: On 16 March 1988, the
Kurdish town of Halabja came under chemical attack, killing most of
its inhabitants and poising the regions for generations to come.
The people of Halabja, in particular, and Kurds, in general, did not
get justices that they were expected and deserved, after ousting the
regime of Saddam Hussein. In a political twist by the current Iraqi
Shiia regime, Saddam and two of his co-workers were hanged for the
crimes committed against dozens of Shiia in the town of Dujail, not
Halabja. This is exactly what Saddam Hussein did, using the Iraqi
political power for the benefit of one single community in Iraq,
Sunni Arabs. Saddam and others were vital witnesses in this genocide
of the 20th century which is similar to Armenian genocide by Othman
Turks and Holocaust by Nazi Germans. All the party and government
officials and loyalists of the former Iraqi regime who had hands in
the genocide of Kurds never came to the justices. Hence the human
history lost an impotent lesson and an opportunity to build a
brighter future upon it for all of us, the inhabitants of this
planet. It is the case that this genocide involves Kurds, but it is
not Kurdish; it belongs to humanity. It shows the failure of today’s
world order and the current leadership of the international
community.
Sadly, genocide of Kurds is and will not be the last on our planet.
One can argue that the oppression of Kurds in Turkey, Iran and Syria
amounts to genocide, perhaps in a different form.
How do you see the international community’s responsibility in
creating an environment in the world which is free from genocide?
What do you think? Have your say!
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
