If you are a Peshmerga, how dare you tell your Mother that you killed your Brother! What for?

Omar Sindi, Washington | Exclusive to iKurd.net

Non grata news, between Kurdish KDPI and PKK Peshmerga forces conflicts: these collusions course between the two sides or with any other political party, it is grim at its best, and it is regrettable at its worst. All Kurdish Political parties must and shall place the national interest above and beyond its party’s interest; these totalitarianisms of deploying peshmerga for rival ideology of hegemony must and should come to end – Kurds have larger issues then political rivalry of hegemony, the primary goal must be how to unyoke Kurdistan’s perpetual occupations. If not, they will not be on the right side of history- the history would not be so compassionate toward that particular clique, neither will it forget, nor will it forgive that political party or its leader.

Kurdish people expect their political parties to stop these intragroup conflicts, for a temporary political interest; this snub history need not repeat itself, still the residue tainting stigma of the 1980’s and 1990’s civil wars hunting the Kurdish people. Kurdish people have been frightened and discouraged from those hearkened increasingly to a master demagogue who rendered to lead them in a right path; residue destructive train wreck intragroup conflict must come to end; if not, shellacking to be the Kurdish political parties, the winner will be the Kurdish enemy, as they have for generations. Suppressions and rights violation of the Kurdish people have exposed to the global stages via Media outlets, therefore, the empathy for the Kurds’ aspiration has gained momentum supports, particularly in the Western Europe and in the United States, however, this momentum has not gone un-noticed, among the regional apparatus governments in Middle East, have employed its machination at work thru many political think tanks, writtings, political pundits attacking the Kurds aspiration through many methods: Rampant corruptions scandals, and political rivalry not being a cohesive forces, etc. Even though ISIS/ISIL so called Islamic state has lost territory at the hand of Kurdish soldiers “peshmerga” in both countries, in Iraq and in Syria, still these regional governments apparatus strong lobbying influences in the Western Capitals preventing directly arming the Kurds. There are anecdotal evidences that the international marketers have for purchased oil from nongovernmental agencies around the world for years, however the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG-Iraq) is internationally recognized it is an autonomous region, but still the KRG could not sell its oil into the international market, that is mainly due to a strong Lobbying resentment against Kurdish aspiration, but French speaking autonomous region Quebec in Canada sells its oil with no difficulty.

If this disunity continues, the gathered momentum’s support might be eroded; the opportunity will be lost again, to unknown future.

Let me share with you the Kurdish an anthology : There were three bulls pasture grazing at three different valleys along each other’s; one day a hungry lion appeared on the top of the mountain looking down to the valleys, and saw these three big bulls are grazing: One Bull was white, one was yellow and the other was black. The lion thought over his scheme, he knew for sure that he couldn’t attack all three of them at once. The lion approached through befriending all three of the bulls, perhaps to find cracking between them through gossiping; for a while the lion befriended all three bulls, one day the lion talked to white bull, and he told him, “You and the yellow bull have a beautiful colors, but the black bull, oh my god he is ugly, and if you want, I can get rid of him.” the white bull told the lion go get rid of the black bull, and the black Bull was gone. A little bit later, the lion again approach to the white bull, and he told him again: “Your color is beautiful, but yellow bull is ugly.”

The white bull told the lion to kill the yellow bull. Now both black and yellow bulls are gone, and the white bull had no support left. One day the white bull was looking at the lion’s eye when he told him, “I know your skullduggery project; I know what you’re up to; just go ahead and kill me too!” The above example is a self- explanatory comparison concept, how the neighboring countries have manipulated the Kurdish political parties against each other to produce self-destructive behaviors.

Peshmerga rave killed in 1982 — Photo: Omar Sindi

There are countless graves all over Kurdistan like Islam Othman’s, mostly unmarked- in their mind they fought and died for the freedom of the Kurdish people and Kurdistan, not for particular partisan politics…

I urge Kurdish political leaders, before they order a trigger of intragroup conflicts, they should go look for graves like the above. To be noted, Islam Othman was martyred on March 19th, 1982; fighting the Republican Guard of the dreaded man, Saddam Hussein’s regime in the Northwestern Zakho city.

The Kurdish people have been oppressed by the neighboring Countries’ powers; they are still, in much measure, the victim of gross injustice. The snub history of the Kurdish political parties must not repeat itself. These quarrels between Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) & the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) shall resolved be through dialogue, not in the battlefield, the peshmerga‘s rifle trigger must be squeezed against the foe, not his brother, peshmarga. Those who encourage intragroup conflicts will be on the wrong side of Kurdish history, – the mothers will not forget, nor will they forgive…

Omar Sindi, a senior writer, analyst, and columnist for iKurd.net, Washington, United States.