But it
need not happen. In recent Kurdish history a short vignette is told about a
meeting during a visit to Europe between a successful former Kurdish refugee,
now a US citizen, and one of his countrymen. After giving up his wealth in
Kurdistan the soldier sought to fight for his country's freedom. One of his
sons had been killed in the war; the other one was still serving. He did not
mention his wife and was living in a one-bedroom house, with hardly anything
else to his name. His question was, "What more can I do for my people?'
Combine
this story with Ocalan's and multiply it tens of times to come up with the
Kurdish PKK's leadership and the many thousand-fold support of its rank-and-file
civilian and military members. Ready to forge a nation and provide leadership
beyond their own country in democracy and confederate government, they also
stand for the just distribution of wealth from natural resources.
Although mostly superseded in newsworthiness by other events, the recent
dishonourably conducted Iraqi Kurdistan elections might eventually be noticed
if many or all of the PCDK's thirty-nine claims of procedural infringements are
dealt with adequately by the court system. Then the world will at last find out
the level of duplicity that plagues the "democratic' process in the KRG, and
maybe some of those touting democracy will raise the alarm about the Kurdish
people's right to freely choose the government that will serve all their
interests in the way the PCDK has advocated.
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