Monthly Archives: March 2011
Posted on March 29, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi
Hosni Mubarak, the ousted president of Egypt who ruled for 30 years, is said to have accumulated $70 billion from corruption and Egypt has been under Emergency Law as long. Under the law, the police power was extended, constitutional rights …
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Posted on March 25, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi
The Kurds of Turkey have started a “sit-in” protest against the Turkish government’s lack of interest and seriousness in solving the Kurdish issue. The Kurds, who make up 20-25 percent of Turkey’s population, demand to have public education in their …
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Posted on March 22, 2011 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Protesters chant “God, Syria and just freedom” and then “freedom, freedom”, March 21, as Kurdish flags fly in the background. The chant is a take on the Baa’thist chant “God, Syria and Assad”. Video from al-Qamishli on March 20 during …
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Posted on March 18, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi
The operation was called “Anfal Campaign;” Anfal means “Spoils of war” in Arabic. This was a genocidal campaign that was followed by a series of systematic attacks against the Kurdish population and their means of livelihood – villages, agriculture, infrastructures, …
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Posted on March 16, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi
Kurdistan Region has been called the “Other Iraq,” “the next Dubai,” and is the most stable region of Iraq with a vibrating economy and social life, though primarily enjoyed by the elites and the middle class, which do not make …
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Posted on March 12, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi
The Syrian government recently has intensified its arrests and abductions of the Kurdish activists who speak out against the inequality and discrimination the Kurdish people face in Syria. In 2010, dozens of Kurdish political activists were sentenced to prison on …
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Posted on March 12, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi
Kurdish language has been banned in Turkey since the creation of its modern borders in 1923. The Kurds were not allowed to speak their mother tongue, not even in their own homes, in the streets, in any social gatherings, let …
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Posted on March 9, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi
On February 20, masked gunmen attacked and burned the first and only independent TV channel, Nalia Radio and Television – NRT – in the Kurdistan region for its live coverage of the demonstrations in Sulaimaniyah, which is still continuing today …
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