The Absurd Cause For The Faili Kurds Holocausts

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Faili Kurds Holocausts

Dr. Ala Musa Hasan | Exclusive to iKurd.net

Political Hypocrisy

Across Iraq, the roots of political hypocrisy have survived numerous regime changes and year after year, political pretense was passed on from generation to generation. In essence, this culture of political hypocrisy has kept many Iraqi regions trapped in a vortex of poverty, hardship, and struggle for the Iraqi populations and especially the Faili Kurds population.

For the last four decades, there are numerous examples where political and economic hypocrisy that led to mass atrocities cross the country. Perhaps the most stunning example of political hypocrisy was after the U. S. occupation of Iraq in 2003. This is where all the current corrupted Iraqi leaders who are in power today, came from outside Iraq with their absurd agenda to demolish Iraq’s society and history.

Almost all countries in the world have national or ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities within their societies. However, in Iraq’s society, there have been many violations of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of minority groups, especially the Faili Kurds people.

They are still up to date experiencing discrimination, racism and exclusion on the grounds of their ethnic, religious, national, or racial characteristics from both governments (the central Arab majority government and the regional Kurdistan government). Minority issues have been on the agenda of the current Iraqi government for more than 13 years, and still nothing was accomplished yet.

Accordance to the United Nations, “The promotion and protection of the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities are contributing to political and social stability and peace and enrich the cultural diversity and heritage of society”.

Faili Kurds were recognized as an Iraqi minority group, ethnically belonging to the Kurdish population. According to many figures, at least 22,000 Faili Kurds went missing during Saddam’s dictatorship. Faili Kurds continued to experience threats to their survival as a minority group even after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

There are many of direct and indirect pressure on the Faili Kurds people to take side either with the Iraqi central government or the Kurdish regional government. The influence that politics has upon our people is not generally acknowledged and accepted yet. These pressures shape the way that we perform everyday as well as act out our lives.

The Baath party had stigmatized the Faili Kurds community before legitimizing violence against them. Thus, the Faili Kurds genocide of 1980s was attributed to ethnic tensions, political/social segregation, and economic negligence that contributed to the supremacy of the Arab population.

It was the Baath party who ultimately encouraged the killing campaign against tens of thousands of Faili Kurds people. The Faili Kurds Genocide is the first of the 20th century where there has not been closure for over 40 years. Without an official acknowledgement, there will never be any discovery of the actual truth, the mass graves, and the release for the ones who are left behind their descendants.

Thus, the current roots of violence and discrimination against the Faili Kurds people can be traced back to the 1980s genocide, when the Arab leaders and authorities in Iraq consider the Faili Kurds people as a threat to their civilization. Consequently, beyond the walls of the Green Zone of Baghdad, the current Arab leaders continually demoralize the Faili Kurds concerns by placing a dark shade over their eyes.

The only time the Faili Kurds issues comes to existence during the election purposes, but once the election is over, the Faili Kurds issues go under the ground again.

The most important question that the Faili Kurds people can asks, which can never be answered by any Arab or Kurds politicians, and government’s officials, what will they do with the Faili Kurds genocide? And how would they attempt to address their sufferings? For example, the monument of the Faili Kurds people was unveiled in a ceremony at Beirut Yard in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

The Iraqi Arab authorities did not allow the public to raise the Kurdish flag next to the Iraqi flag or sing the Kurdish national anthem during the ceremony.

The Faili Kurds officials were under pressure not to nationalize this important event, because the Shiite political groups within the Iraqi National Coalition, particularly the former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki party, prohibited any association of the Faili Kurds people with the Kurdistan Region or the Kurdish nation at the ceremony. No Kurdish MPs or authorities were invited to attend this important ceremony.

Thus the Faili Kurds people had no say in that important event and whom they can invite for their event. This ignorant act will motivates the violence, mass rapes, and the ethnic cleansing against the Faili Kurds people.

We need to emphasize that there is a need for humanity check in order to prevent the systematic persecution, ostracism, legitimization of cruel treatment to the Faili Kurds population, and the denial of wrong doing that does not allow closure for the victims and their close relatives and friends.

There were many children, men, and women had been separated by Saddam’s security forces. The men and the boys were taken away and never seen again. About 20,000 Faili Kurds youth were disappeared and have never been found yet, and the Iraqi officials (Arab and Kurds) takes this painful event for their sick and selfish principle to get their agenda cross.

On the demise of Saddam’s bloody regime back in 2003, and the hypocrisy of the current Iraqi government, we the Faili Kurds people, still experiencing discrimination, segregation, and humiliation on every day basis. We did pin a great deal of hope on what was then a potential turning point for us, but once again we were disappointed.

The families of disappeared Faili Kurds youths are still waking up to the everyday shocking discovery of the countless scattered mass graves and almost a decade has past where we once again are awoken to the harsh lack of justice that is the inability to prove the genocide internationally and receive our God given rights as humans and as Iraqis. However, sadly history seems to repeat itself and show a continual trend in the overlooking of our rights as citizens of this planet.

Dr. Ala Musa Hasan, a Canada-based Faili Kurd, PHD Candidates in Clinical Psychology.

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