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In
the last four months, Kurdistan Democratic
Party has being oppressing people in the areas
under its control. Besides, it committed
crimes and violation against the activists of
our party. In December last year, Yousif
Qadir, who is in charge of the
administration of our party’s branch in Arbil,
had been detained twice. The first time was
because he was distributing the statement of our
party pertaining to the election farce in
December, and the second time was in the end
of December when he was distributing our
statement about Ja’fari’s decision of
increasing the prices of fuel. The security
forces of KDP (Asaiysh) raided his house,
arrested him and released him after two hours of
interrogation. Then, on 21st of March
and at nine o’clock, they abducted Bashdar
Ali, one of our cadres when leaving an
internet café. They tortured him both
physically and psychologically and
incarcerated him up till the next morning,
telling him that ‘this is only a warning’.
In addition, on 23rd of March
someone shot Jabar Sofi in his face and
deeply wounded him in Dyana town; but
fortunately escaped death. Jabar Sofi is a
well-known figure in Dyana and he is in
charge of distributing the publications of
our party.
incarcerating Yousif Qadir
is a clear
violation of freedom of political activities
and an apparent prohibition of political
opponents’ activities, had KDP bear
the responsibility of abducting Bashdar Ali and
the attempt to assassinate Jabar Sofi.
Sentencing Dr. Kamal Said Qadir for thirty
years, the mentioned violations which have
happened recently in a short period of time,
and the security forces (Asaiysh) of Duhok’s
attack on the demonstrators on 26th.
of this month apparently show that KDP’s
administration tries to oppress the activity
of any political opposition and Kurdistan
people’s political, civil and individual
rights. It is worth mentioning that KDP has
not met the demands of teachers, students,
and other parts of society of demonstrating,
and thus has not allowed any demonstration
and oppressed them just from the beginning.
Simultaneously, the violations referred to
above affirm the fact that the allegation of
Barzani and the authorities of KDP about
‘political freedom’ and ‘the promise of
annulling the ban on political freedom’ in
Arbil is none but a futile attempt to
decorate their mass media and to deceive the
public opinion in Iraq and all over the
world.
We,
the Worker-communist Party of Iraq, see that
is our duty to inform the public opinion of
the world about these facts and we will take
all variant political ways in our struggle
to stand against those oppressive deeds and
to make KDP respect freedom of political
activities. KDP has to terminate these
anti-freedom undertakings and give up those
acts which remind people the history of
despotism and suppression.
Through this statement, I call the people of
Kurdistan, the leaders of the protest
movements, and the freedom-loving people in
Iraq and all over the world and the
progressive and human right organizations to
exert pressure on KDP and make it stop
attacking people and their protests and to
respect freedom of demonstration, expression
and political activities in Kurdistan.
Saman Karim
In
charge of Kurdistan Organization of
Worker-communist Party of Iraq
1st.
April 2006
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