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July 28, 2008
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The Statement of Kirkuk Syndicate of Kurdistan Journalists on the occasion of the assassination of the journalist Soran Mama Hama
Kurdishaspect.com - Translated by Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
The assassination of the journalist Soran Mama Hama is another terrifying bell, but it will never silence us.
Journalists of Kurdistan, freedom-loving people, human rights advocates
Once more the narrow-minded cowardly and with-filthy-past enemies of word, truth and right committed another crime by shooting the young journalist Soran Mama Hama proving again the fact that they are bereft of patriotism and humanism. The peopleْs court is ready for bringing them to justice. These criminals do not have the power to tolerate the whisper of truth. They deviously strike their blows. Although in the past several other journalists were assassinated in Kirkuk without anyone raising a voice, today another young pen in front of his own home and in front of the eyes of the population of Kirkuk is shot dead making his life an award of bravery brightening the pages of the history of journalism in this helpless city.
The ever oppressed people of Kirkuk!
We at the Kirkuk branch of the syndicate of journalists express to the public opinion with utmost frustration and sadness that it is impossible for us to keep quiet about the death of our colleague Soran Mama Hamw and to surrender in the face of cowardly threats by straw rusty-mined men of this country.
At this point, we demand from the two dominant parties in Kirkuk And south Kurdistan, the consulates of multi-national forces, and the Iraqi government to start an urgent investigation to find the murderers of Soran Mama Hama. Otherwise, we will seek justice in international courts. We feel it is our duty to raise our voice against those monsters that are lying in darkness to strike at the patriotic journalists of this nation and to expose this ugly crime against democratic values and human rights.
We would like to assert again that this crime is a terrifying bell to stop free expression and free journalism in Kurdistan.
We all see that t in front of the eyes of parliament and government, the law is trampled upon daily by the gangsters of corruption and lawlessness who are making our wounds deeper and deeper and are hindering the ground-breaking track of those courageous pens that have never betrayed this wounded homeland.
Curse upon those who break the pens and press the triggers of guns!
Glory and blessing to the martyred journalist Soran Mama Hama and all the martyrs of thought and pen.
Kirkuk Branch of Syndicate of Kurdistan Journalists
from www.kurdisathnnet.info
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