US Involved in Ethnic Cleansing and in Promotion of Pseudo-Kurdish Terrorism in Iraq

There are no Kurds, and every statement that opposes this historical reality represents an academic and political fallacy composed, sustained and promoted by the colonial powers, England and France, and the colonial establishment of Washington.

Out of a multitude of ethno-religious groups that have different origins, national identity, faith, customs, language and socio-cultural characteristics, the criminal regimes of London, Paris and Washington try to create (not a nation – this would be a fake – but) a state that would detach provinces from Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria and would consist in an excellent puppet in the colonial hands.

The rulers of the planned state Pseudo-Kurdistan are currently being formed by the Americans in Iraq. To speed up the impending developments, the US army and administration in Iraq contributed to the ethnic cleansing of Kerkuk’s Turkmen because the colonial powers want to attach the Oil-rich province to the pseudo-state of their criminal and anti-human conspiracy.

What the Holland-based SOITM (Iraqi Turkmen Human Rights Research Foundation) study reveals is appalling. It bears witness to the illegal settlements of populations controlled by the so-called Kurdish parties that have been effectuated in Kerkuk between 2002 and 2007 with the criminal support of the pseudo-democratic and pseudo-humanist US administration.

I will republish the Report in two parts, and in forthcoming articles I will expand more on the issue.

An Aspect of the Misfortune to Which Kerkuk Region is Exposed: Satellite Maps of 2002 Compared with Maps of 2007
By Iraqi Turkmen Human Rights Research Foundation

http://www.turkmen.nl/

Date: May 05, 2009
No: Rep.9-E0509

In the early morning of Thursday 15 April 2009, the inhabitants of the oldest Kerkuk neighborhood, Musalla, were awakened by the sound of bulldozers destroying the wall and graves of the Seyyid Kızı part of the large Musalla Turkmen graveyard.[1] The Musalla graveyard is the oldest graveyard in Kerkuk and comprises thousands of graves including those of many celebrated Turkmen. Inhabitants flocked to the area, stopping the demolition before complaining to the police office. Nevertheless, about 15 graves were destroyed.

After investigation, it was found that an official contract was given by the chief of the Investment Commission of Endowments directorate of Kerkuk, a Kurd from Kerkuk, for the building of a commercial complex in that part of the graveyard.[2] The Commission director [3] is a Peshmerga Kurd brought from the province of Sulaymaniya during the distribution of senior posts between members of the Kurdish KDP and PUK political parties directly after occupation. The person who was given contract is a Kurd from Sulaymaniya province, too.

This is part of policy of the Kurdish political parties, who remain alone in administering Kerkuk since the occupation in 2003, to eradicate the Turkmen characteristics of the region in their attempts to Kurdify the province, control the huge oil reserve and annex it to the Kurdish region. The names of streets, bridges, villages and sub-districts were changed to Kurdish. The signboards inside governmental offices and hospitals were changed to Kurdish, even though a large part of the Kerkuk population cannot read it. Sculptures of prominent Kurds, such as, killed-Peshmerga militants, have also been erected on the streets.

In 2003, the first Kurds-dominated Kerkuk city council has dramatically Kurdified the administration, which was mainly distributed between the two Kurdish parties, KDP and PUK. Approximately 10,000 staff was appointed to Kerkuk governmental offices, of whom almost 80% were Kurds brought from Duhok, Sulaymaniya and Erbil. Security forces have been completely replaced by Kurds. They dominate the police system. Thousands of Peshmergas militants from other Kurdish regions are also distributed in Kerkuk province.

Kurdish political parties have also settled tens of thousands of Kurdish families in Kerkuk province. Kerkuk’s population, which was 870,000 at the day of occupation, became more than 1,300,000, [4] Moreover, more than 100,000 Arabs have either left Kerkuk or been expelled by the Kurdish Peshmerga militants. About thirty Arab villages in the south and south west Kerkuk was evacuated. The population of some Kurdish villages has been increased several-fold, for example, Kara Injir and Shuwan.

The incoming families have built on almost every piece of undeveloped land within Kerkuk city. [Table 1] Many large Kurdish neighborhoods and shopping centers have been erected, particularly to the east and north of Kerkuk city. [Map 1 and 2] The Kerkuk city area is increased about 20 km2 [Map 3]. These lands mostly belonged to Turkmen and also to municipality and government. The number of complaint cases which have been presented to the Property Claim Commission (PCC) in Kerkuk is about 40,000, about 80% of which are of Turkmen. The Kurdified administration of Kerkuk has continually hampered the decisions of the PCC. Today, about 20% of the cases are only completed. Many of those who win the decision of the PCC still could not get their lands.

UNAMI office in Kerkuk

The degree to which the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) is involved in Kerkuk issues requires close monitoring of the situation in the province. Furthermore, UNAMI is going to make a historical decision on Kerkuk which is going to influence deeply all the Iraqi communities and the future of Iraq. Despite numerous calls for a UNAMI representation in Kerkuk from Arab and Turkmen groups, it was before about a year such a presence was established and it remains under resourced and challenged in meeting the requirements of the multifaceted Kerkuk crisis.

The UNAMI representative lacks a permanent staff, and staff members are frequently replaced with others and work only two or three days in a week. Rarely can two staff members be found at the same time. There is no bureau assigned for the UNAMI in Kerkuk. A room had been assigned to UNAMI staff during the meetings of the Kerkuk Article 23 Commission in the building of the Kerkuk governorate. At the time Arab and Kurd, but not Turkmen, translators were present - making Turkmen authorities worry about the accuracy of the translation of such historical negotiations.

Recommendations:

- To the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq

Complete the institution of UNAMI office in Kerkuk and provide it with sufficient staff.

Provide the office with experts in human rights, public relations, minority issues, urbanization engineers and international law.

Provide a Turkmen - English translator

- The Iraqi government

Provide the requirements to the Kerkuk Article 23 Commission to enable the commissioners to realize their mission

Realize the decision, which you made, to evacuate the governmental buildings in Kerkuk

Replace Peshmerga militants with Iraqi army units throughout Kerkuk province

- The Kurdish parties

Abandon the inflexible policies to assist the solution of Kerkuk problem and facilitate the reconciliation processes which certainly quicken building of Democratic Iraq and establishment of regional stability.

- The international civil society organizations: Human Rights Watch & Amnesty International

Open offices in Kerkuk to closely observe the human rights situation and huge demographical changes [Map 1, 2 and 3] and publish regular reports

To the international community and authorities

Actively support the decisions of Iraqi government and the Iraqi parliament, particularly, on Kerkuk, and provide or withdraw your support accordingly.

- The Turkmen and Arab groups in Kerkuk

Institute a well developed press office staffed with English speaking journalists to enlighten the international community about:
- Developments in Kerkuk issues, particularly, that of the Kerkuk commission
- The huge human rights violations since occupation, the dramatic demographic changes and the Kurdish domination of almost all power centers in Kerkuk

References :

1. For centuries, Musalla graveyard is visited every Thursday by thousands of females of Kerkuk. Whilst such phenomenon shows the degree of importance which Kerkuk people give to the dead, at the same time, it is considered one of the very few social activities for females in such a conservative community.

2. Kurdish families had already built tens of houses at the east and north of Musalla graveyard.

3. It is well known that almost all the finances and lands which the directorate of endowments of Kerkuk province possesses have been donated by Turkmen.

4. The numbers of both the Kurds and the Turkmen, who had been exiled from Kerkuk province during the Arabification policies of Ba’ath regime, were 100,000 according to the United States Special Committee for Refugees and 120,000 according to the Human Rights Watch and the Kurdish parties. It should be known that a large number of the expelled Kurdish families were not born in Kerkuk, the came to Kerkuk from other Kurdish province. http://www.irinnews.org/InDepthMain.aspx?InDepthId=16&ReportId=62521&Country=Yes

Note
Picture: Kerkuk belongs to the Turkmen.