PRESS RELEASE
Toronto, CANADA - Kurdish Canadians, fearing form further atrocities to be committed against their people in Iraqi Kurdistan, will be marching for help to get rid of Iraq’s Tyrant Saddam Hussein and to call on the International Community to safeguard the rights of the Kurds to enjoy their emerging democratic institutions within a federative Iraq. The march will be from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., on Saturday (March 08), starting from the intersection of Dundas Street and Young street, marching to the American Consulate on University Avenue in Toronto.
The Kurds, World’s largest nation without a recognized homeland, have traditionally been subjected to denials through wars and genocides. No one hates wars as much as the Kurdish people do, simply because they have always been victims of wars. Their rights to live as equal citizens in their respective countries of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, have never been recognized, let along their legitimate rights to claim KURDISTAN as a country of their own.
In their struggle for freedom and democracy within the boundaries of their destinies to live, Kurds have been made the spoils of wars and treated with chemical gasses, weapons of mass destructions and ethnically cleansed and left with thousands of destroyed villages, towns and districts, especially in the hands of the World’s most brutal dictator; Saddam Hussein.
Off of the despicable crimes committed by Saddam and his thugs, is the gassing of Halabja city in 1988, that killed 5000 innocent Kurdish children, elderly, women and men in matters of seconds. Then, in 1988 through 1989, his ruthlessness grew in his infamous Anfal Campaign in which more than 200,000 Kurds systematically cleansed, either by burying them alive in mass graves, or cruelly eliminating them in biological and chemical gas chambers. This is not to mention the 500,000 Kurds who died while fleeing for their lives in the aftermath of the Desert Storm in 1991.
The International Community, World Peace Activists and Friends of the Kurds must be aware that Saddam poses a great danger to the Iraqi people, especially the Kurds, and the rest of the Muddle East. He is not only hiding tons of chemical and biological weapons to be used against his enemies in the post lifting of the UN Sanctions, but also actively engaged in ethnic cleansing of oil rich Kurdish cities and towns under his grim. More than 400,000 non-Arab inhabitants of Kerkuk city either have been forced to denounce their nationalities and become Arabs, or forced to seek refuge in the liberated areas of Iraqi Kurdistan.
We appeal to the Allies, led by the US, to help our people in removing this criminal tyrant sooner rather than later. Also, in doing so, we ask the US not to be blackmailed by the unfounded fears of Turkey which its record of genocides speak for itself, be it against the Kurds or the Arminian people. Therefore, we strongly reject any Turkish or other regional military interventions in Iraqi Kurdistan. As well, we utterly object to their presence in our native land, since we trust that they will exacerbate the uncertainties facing our people.
In this crucial time, which can bring freedom and democracy to the people of Iraq, we strongly believe that it is time for the Allies to declare openly their intention in post-Saddam of Iraq and honor their commitments to help building a federative, pluralistic political system to run the state of Iraq and help in its integration with the International community of peace loving nations".
Toronto, CANADA - Kurdish Canadians, fearing form further atrocities to be committed against their people in Iraqi Kurdistan, will be marching for help to get rid of Iraq’s Tyrant Saddam Hussein and to call on the International Community to safeguard the rights of the Kurds to enjoy their emerging democratic institutions within a federative Iraq. The march will be from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., on Saturday (March 08), starting from the intersection of Dundas Street and Young street, marching to the American Consulate on University Avenue in Toronto.
The Kurds, World’s largest nation without a recognized homeland, have traditionally been subjected to denials through wars and genocides. No one hates wars as much as the Kurdish people do, simply because they have always been victims of wars. Their rights to live as equal citizens in their respective countries of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, have never been recognized, let along their legitimate rights to claim KURDISTAN as a country of their own.
In their struggle for freedom and democracy within the boundaries of their destinies to live, Kurds have been made the spoils of wars and treated with chemical gasses, weapons of mass destructions and ethnically cleansed and left with thousands of destroyed villages, towns and districts, especially in the hands of the World’s most brutal dictator; Saddam Hussein.
Off of the despicable crimes committed by Saddam and his thugs, is the gassing of Halabja city in 1988, that killed 5000 innocent Kurdish children, elderly, women and men in matters of seconds. Then, in 1988 through 1989, his ruthlessness grew in his infamous Anfal Campaign in which more than 200,000 Kurds systematically cleansed, either by burying them alive in mass graves, or cruelly eliminating them in biological and chemical gas chambers. This is not to mention the 500,000 Kurds who died while fleeing for their lives in the aftermath of the Desert Storm in 1991.
The International Community, World Peace Activists and Friends of the Kurds must be aware that Saddam poses a great danger to the Iraqi people, especially the Kurds, and the rest of the Muddle East. He is not only hiding tons of chemical and biological weapons to be used against his enemies in the post lifting of the UN Sanctions, but also actively engaged in ethnic cleansing of oil rich Kurdish cities and towns under his grim. More than 400,000 non-Arab inhabitants of Kerkuk city either have been forced to denounce their nationalities and become Arabs, or forced to seek refuge in the liberated areas of Iraqi Kurdistan.
We appeal to the Allies, led by the US, to help our people in removing this criminal tyrant sooner rather than later. Also, in doing so, we ask the US not to be blackmailed by the unfounded fears of Turkey which its record of genocides speak for itself, be it against the Kurds or the Arminian people. Therefore, we strongly reject any Turkish or other regional military interventions in Iraqi Kurdistan. As well, we utterly object to their presence in our native land, since we trust that they will exacerbate the uncertainties facing our people.
In this crucial time, which can bring freedom and democracy to the people of Iraq, we strongly believe that it is time for the Allies to declare openly their intention in post-Saddam of Iraq and honor their commitments to help building a federative, pluralistic political system to run the state of Iraq and help in its integration with the International community of peace loving nations".
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