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June 9, 2008
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Territorial Disputes and Human Rights in S-Kurdistan
Kurdishaspect.com - By Kay Azadabeen
Resolving the territorial disputes in S-Kurdistan is gaining weight gradually. Three obstacles remain the same and include the Iraqi constitution, the United Nations and its biased members on one side of equation and the Kurdish people on the other side.
First of all, arguments have been made that the Iraqi constitution has the answer regarding how to resolve the territorial disputes between the Kurds and the Iraqis. Compare to the constitutions of the neighboring countries, the Iraqi constitution is relatively progressive for acknowledging the existence of the Kurds as a distinct group of people with their own cultural, linguistic, and historical identity. However, this constitution still has many flaws such as mixing religion and state that one can only detect in the laws of underdeveloped countries. The underdeveloped faction of the Kurdish society can relate to this constitution and should utilize it for resolving certain conflicts realistically. At the same time the developed faction of the society needs to keep in mind that they can not rely on this document as a guide to resolve many modern conflicts.
Secondly, it is important that the United Nations is gradually becoming involved in recognizing the Kurds as a reality. UN has done many great services to resolve international conflicts. At the same time this international body is strongly influenced by the governments that have the ultimate say in any subject matter. The Turkish, Persian, and Arab governments have not shown any serious interest to consider the Kurds to be equal with other ethnic groups. In any conflict resolution related to the Kurdish people, the United Nations should invite the Kurdish experts from all parts of Kurdistan to negotiate directly with the representative of the biased ethnic groups that already have a state of their own. Forceful and manipulative displacement was inhumane in the past and will be inhumane in the future too. The main task of the UN should be to held referendum where people of the disputed areas freely make a choice where they prefer to belong.
Thirdly, the majority of the Kurds have not been able to show any serious interest in being considered equal with others ethic groups. As a struggling minority in four countries in the Middle East, the Kurdish people still have much to catch up to be free from the fear of economical and political consequences of having their own identity. Once they are in a secure economical stage they have the potential to peacefully disobey any civil laws that treats them as a subordinate group. At that stage they collectively could stop going to work places or attending schools in their homeland in which their own language is not taught or spoken officially.
Finally, it is the responsibility of policy makers in Kurdistan, in the Middle East, and in the United Nations to adhere to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that was adopted by the United Nations in 1948. If all involved parties follow this declaration, there should remain no ethnic and territorial conflicts. At that stage the Kurds no longer have to ask when will we be free, or in Kurdish kay azadabeen?
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