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| Do not radicalize the Kurds |
| 2017-11-07 |
| [RUDAW.NET] First of all, I am not a Kurd, I am a Chaldean Assyrian Syriac Christian from Erbil, a descendent of Babylon and Assyria, a descendent of the one of the most ancient Christian churches, the Church of the East. I have lived all my entire life beside my Kurdish friends, most of them Moslems, and others Yezidis and Kakeis. Since elementary school in my town Ankawa, which is considered today the largest Christian city in Iraq and Kurdistan, and until finishing my MA studies in Erbil, I had made many good Kurdish friends. The Kurds, a nation of 45 million, have been separated between several countries, and they have struggled more than a century for their rights to be identified as a nation, to have the right to speak their own language, to sing their songs freely, to govern themselves according to their values and principles. Sadly they were killed, tortured, oppressed, and even denied their existence by the countries they have lived in, only because they wanted to live according to their standards and not according to other people goals. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 See Catalan independence for an idea of the difficulty in breaking away. Also see Brexit. There is a lot of push-back by the Globalists/NWO types against nationalism movements. A Kurd nation would probably be good for the Kurds but it's not too popular with Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-07 07:35 |
| #1 Finally, I want to send a message to all supporters of religious and ethnic coexistence in the world, to the lovers of peace and harmony: please help Kurdistan in these difficult times, please do not leave us alone in the face of tyranny and oppression. Don't hold your breath. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-11-07 01:55 |