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| Assyrian Security Force Needed in Iraq's Nineveh Plain |
 (AINA) -- On Feb. 20, 2008, Uruknet1 and the Kurdistan Post2 reported that Masroor Barzani, son of the Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani, was arrested in Austria for an assassination attempt against Kurdish journalist and outspoken critic of the KRG, Mr. Kamal Sayid Kadir.3 Mr. Kadir was arrested and detained for several months in 2005 in the KRG Region for harsh criticism of the Kurdish government and political parties.
On Feb. 17th, 2008, Johnny Khoshaba, an Assyrian Deacon, was arrested by the Kurdistan Democratic Party Peshmerga from his home in Telkeif4, Iraq, and taken to a prison in Sarsink, in the KRG Region. Telkeif lies in the Nineveh Plains, outside of the KRG, yet the KDP militia operates as a security force in the area. Johnny Khoshaba's crime was criticism of what he sees as corruption in Assyrian religious and political leaders including Finance Minister Sarkis Aghajan, and also the KRG and Kurdish political parties.5 Before his release four days later, he was required to sign an agreement to stop all criticism of the KRG and Assyrian religious leaders.
Both Mr. Kadir and Mr. Khoshaba live outside of the KRG, yet the reach of the Peshmerga and KDP seems to extend to wherever there is dissent or criticism of Kurdish authorities.
The KDP uses an unstable Iraq as an excuse to use direct their militias as they please, seemingly with the nod of approval -- or the blind eye -- of coalition forces.6 As early as 2005, the Washington Post discussed the Kurdish militias7, describing a situation where KDP militias are free to do as they please to consolidate the power of their party, intimidating and arresting at will.
While Peshmerga presence likely brings some stability to the area, it comes at a severe price: the long, corrupt arm of the KDP is extended into the indigenous Assyrian territory outside the territory already taken - a territory which the KRG draft constitution seeks to "normalize" and annex to the KRG Region. Should the Nineveh Plains not be annexed to the KRG, expansion of KRG territory would be difficult.
KDP offices and control are, therefore, necessary for this goal of annexation. In 2006, when the Assyrian Democratic Movement received permission from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior to assign 800 new policemen in the Nineveh Plains, to be chosen from the local inhabitants, the KDP-controlled Provincial Council in Nineveh successfully delayed and ultimately blocked the implementation, ensuring their control of the area.8 However, without immediate implementation of the Ministry's order for a local police force, stories like Mr. Khoshaba's will become more and more common.
As the KRG overreaches their authority and continues, unchecked, the pattern of authoritarianism it is blatantly displaying, it will be difficult to reverse the process and ensure Iraq becomes a democracy for all of its citizens, rather than only for the privileged political elites and those "connected" to the rich and powerful. With increasing reports of economic and political marginalization of non-Kurds, intimidation to join the Kurdish political parties for financial and physical security, and usurpation of independent organizations to control ethnic and religious minorities, the KRG is quickly showing its proficiency at controlling their agenda through brute force and superior financial resources. It is becoming increasingly clear that the KRG is not much different than the previous Iraqi regime9 in terms of their political tactics and structure. Indeed, "The Other Iraq" is looking more and more like "The Previous Iraq, continued".
By Waleeta Canon
Waleeta Canon is the Director of the Washington, D.C. based Assyria Foundation. She has published and presented on Assyrian political and human rights issues since 2003.
Notes:
1 "Barazani's son arrested in Austria on murder attempt charge." See here also.
2 http://www.kurdistanpost.info/news/173.html.
3 Kadir, Kamal Sayid; Iraqi Kurdistan's Downward Spiral
4 AINA 2-22-2008. The KDP Peshmerga often acts under the guise of the Iraqi National Guard -- although it is clear they are taking orders from the KDP (see "Kurdish Soldier Kill Assyrian Boy in Drive-By Shooting", Assyrian International News Agency, July 2007; "Northern Iraqi Human Rights Field Mission", Iraq Sustainable Democracy Project, April, 2006.
5 See Mr. Khoshaba's letter to Ankawa.com after his release.
6 "Militias on the Rise in Iraq."
7 Ibid
8 "Kurds Block Assyrians, Shabaks from Police Force in North Iraq.
9 Rubin, Michael; Is Iraqi Kurdistan a Good Ally?
source: www.aina.org |
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| Turkey Forcing Church to Fight to Stay Open, Again |
The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has just learned that last week police in the Turkish capital of Ankara warned a legally recognized church that it would be closed in three days.
The Batikent Protestant Church, located in Ankara, is one of the very few Protestant churches which have been legally recognized in Turkey by winning a series of precedent-setting court cases. On June 2, however, two police officers served the pastor with a notice from the local government that the church was to be closed within 3 days because it is meeting in a building that is not approved as a place of worship. This is in spite of the fact that the Batikent Protestant Church won a court case against the Yenimahalle Municipal Government last year that overturned the government's attempts to shut it down on the basis of zoning code violations. This current notice is forcing the church to fight yet another legal battle over a case it has already won.
On June 4, the founding pastor of the Batikent Protestant Church, Daniel Wickwire had his lawyers open a court case challenging the police notice that they received on June 2. Wickwire, who has been a missionary pastor in Ankara for the past 23 years, said, "It is very obvious that what is happening to our church is a pre-meditated, continuous and jointly orchestrated direct attack against the Church as a whole in Turkey by the right-wing Islamic government (AK Party) that is currently in control in Turkey." He mentioned specifically that the Yenimahalle Municipal Government has been working in conjunction with the national Ministry of the Interior to try to shut down the church.
Wickwire himself has been the target of much hostility for having the audacity to take the Turkish Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom at face value. Officially, he has been forced to stay in Turkey as a tourist for the past 19 years while having to leave the country every 90 days, because the government refuses to give him either a residence permit or a work permit on the basis that he is a missionary.
His attempt! s to eve n apply for a work permit at the Turkish Consulate in Chicago were mysteriously "lost" in red tape. A year after he applied in Chicago his wife returned to follow-up on the application and was refused her request for information. Wickwire said, "The consulate officials became very nervous and said that they would lose their jobs if they were to give out this information. They said that if we were Muslims we would not be having this kind of trouble."
A well-know TV newsperson repeatedly came to his church to do interviews with him with the express purpose of shutting down the church, but was convicted by the courts of trying to incite a riot against the churches in Ankara and was given a 2 year jail sentence. However, this man was somehow able to get out of having to do any jail time.
Pastor Wickwire has been involved in over 15 court cases in the last 6 years in order to keep the church doors open. Wickwire told ICC, "It is high time for the international community to speak out against such overt, blatant and continual harassment and persecution of the church."
Would you pray for Pastor Wickwire and the Batikent Protestant Church? In addition, would you please call or write your Turkish embassy to ask them to uphold religious freedom by dropping this latest attack against the Batikent Protestant Church?
Source: www.aina.org |
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| British Foreign Minister in Lebanon to Meet Leaders |
British Foreign Minister David Miliband arrived in Beirut late Sunday for a 24-hour visit during which he was to meet the country's leaders, official sources said.
Shortly after arriving, Miliband met Lebanon's parliament speaker Nabih Berri and Foreign Minister Fawzi Sallukh. He is due to meet other leaders on Monday, including President Michel Sleiman.
Miliband said he was there to show Britain's support for the Doha accord, signed on May 21, which ended the 18-month political crisis that at one point threatened to plunge the country into civil war.
He said he wanted to show his support for the new president, whose election was made possible by the Doha accord.
"I am very conscious that Lebanon is dependent on peace in the wider region for its own stability but also it can contribute to wider peace in the region," said Miliband
source: www.aina.org |
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| Families Seek Redress for Turkish Incursions |
British lawyers are taking Turkey to the European court of human rights in pursuit of compensation for deaths and damage allegedly inflicted by repeated bombardments of northern Iraq.
The test cases, lodged in Strasbourg, will force one of Nato's largest military powers to justify incursions aimed at destroying Kurdish rebel bases in mountains beyond its borders.
Details of the legal challenge emerged as Turkish jets launched a fresh wave of attacks over the weekend on positions occupied by the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK) fighters in the Zap region of northern Iraq.
Ahmad Danas, a PKK spokesman, confirmed "there was a Turkish air strike last night ... but it caused no casualties. They hit empty bases. The fighters do not have fixed bases."
A senior Turkish commander said last week that Turkey and Iran are cooperating, sharing intelligence and carrying out coordinated strikes against the PKK and Pejak, the group's Iranian wing.
In February, thousands of Turkish soldiers moved into northern Iraq in an attempt to annihilate strongholds occupied by the PKK. Turkey denies civilians were killed.
That incursion - the largest in a decade - provoked international criticism that it would destabilise the one region of Iraq that was relatively calm. US officials confirmed they were also sharing intelligence with the Turkish military in order to pinpoint rebel bases and minimise civilian casualties. Kurdish rebels have been fighting for a homeland in eastern Turkey since 1984. More than 30,000 people have died during the conflict.
Turkey, an eager applicant for membership of the EU, was one of the founding states of the Council of Europe, the body that established the European court of human rights. The legal claims have been brought by the London-based Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) on behalf of Muslim and Chaldean Christian villagers who say they lost their homes during Turkish air raids last October and December.
The cases will test the limits of the court's jurisdiction but have a precedent. A 1995 case, also brought by the KHRP, resulted in the Strasbourg court establishing the principle that Council of Europe states could be held accountable for human rights abuses committed beyond their borders - even outside Europe. The KHRP failed on that occasion, however, to prove that Turkish soldiers had killed seven shepherds found dead in northern Iraq.
The latest cases have been prepared following a fact-finding mission to the area this spring. Kerim Yildiz, the organisation's director, said of his investigations: "We have been told that Turkish shelling and bombing caused civilian deaths and injuries, and damage to livelihood, farmland and property.
"In Iraq I witnessed some of these atrocities and also saw that civilians have been traumatised [and] ... displaced. The military operations have compromised the human rights of Iraqi civilians." One of the British lawyers involved is Mark Muller QC, who chairs both the Bar Human Rights Committee and the KHRP.
A Turkish embassy spokesman in London said: "To my knowledge there were no civilian casualties [in northern Iraq]. But there were some civilians who complained that they had lost livestock."
By Owen Bowcott
The Guardian
source: www.aina.org |
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| Iraq Talks With Kuwait, Iran on Shared Oil-report |
DUBAI (Reuters) -- Iraq, home to the world's third largest proven oil reserves, is in talks with neighbouring Iran and Kuwait to reach a deal to pool shared oilfields, the London-based Asharq al-Awsat reported on Sunday. "Iraq has entered negotiations with Kuwait and Iran," it quoted Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani as saying.
"We have informed them of the necessity of signing an agreement to unify the oil fields and to move away from a situation where each side has control from its side as that will bleed these fields in an uneconomical way."
Iraq is hoping for a further output boost after oil production and exports reached a post-war high in May.
The country, whose main source of revenue is oil, needs huge investment after decades of sanctions and war, but sabotage and oil smuggling have robbed it of billions of dollars and hampered reconstruction.
Delays in approving a long-awaited oil law to govern the industry have also held back investment in the sector.
Asharq al-Awsat did not say which oil fields Iraq was hoping to pool with its neighbours. (Writing by Lin Noueihed; Editing by David Fogarty)
Source: www.aina.org |
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