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2006-07-03 Iraq

Kurds Block Assyrians, Shabaks From Police Force in North Iraq

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nonetheless, the KDP got most votes in the election in Nineveh province (38%) and as more Kurds expelled by Saddam return (and as the constitution specifically states they can), will doubtless increase it's vote.

More whining by the losers.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-07-03 01:02|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-03 01:02|| Front Page Top

#2 This seems more to be that the Kurds, so long a persecuted minority in Iraq, are taking the opportunity to discriminate against an even smaller minority.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-03 06:36|| 2006-07-03 06:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Hear, hear TW.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-07-03 06:41|| 2006-07-03 06:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Kurds and Assyrian Christians are traditional enemies. While everyone knows about the massacre of Armenians, the Kurds killed about half the Assyrians in Iraq in the early 1920s while the Brits ignored it.
This is disappointing, sincee I had heard that the Kurds were actually paying Christians to move into Kurdistan.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al 2006-07-03 10:16|| 2006-07-03 10:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Ancient manuscripts tell of very early Christians bravely venturing into Koordestan to spread the news to vicious cannibals, and even the Apostle Paul was warned away from the area. The Kurds must be genetic cousins to the Afghans who charged tanks on their horses and skinned people alive. With such ancient prejudices, how can they ever grasp such concepts as equality and true justice?

Posted by Danielle 2006-07-03 11:02|| 2006-07-03 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Turkey, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Iran have all practiced depradations against the Assyrians and other minorities. The Turks continue to enlist the aid of Kurds to drive Surian Christians from villages around Urfa. The Surians, few as they are, become pawns sacrificed in a political battle to appease Kurdish tribal leaders. "Drive these guys out, and we'll give you their land if you behave."

If the world isn't going to turn back the clock on this and related land, money, and power grabs, then logically speaking, no one should have any objection to the Isrealis keeping their place in the sun.

There's a good account of this in Dalrymple's 1997 book, "From the Holy Mountain" (he's no fan of Israel, but inadvertantly argues for that country's ultimate success). Ironically, it's only in Syria that Middle Eastern Christians are reasonably treated anymore. The minority Alawite government uses the multi-denominational Christian minority plus the Druze and Shiite minorities to buttress its numbers against the Sunni majority. "Do anything you want, so long as you stay out of politics."

Posted by Snirt Jesh4074 2006-07-04 00:13|| 2006-07-04 00:13|| Front Page Top

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