Change Movement: The Power In The Region Is Looted By The Ruling Families And Their Armed Factions

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The New Generation: The Region Is Experiencing Tragic Conditions Due To The Economic And Financial Conditions

Author: AhadNA3 On 11/24/2021 - 1:38 PM  71

The Leader Of The New Generation Movement, Rebwar Chalabi, Confirmed, On Wednesday, That The Suppression Of Student Demonstrators That Took Place In The Sulaymaniyah Governorate Is A New Crime Added To The Crimes Of The Power Parties.

Chalabi Said, "Instead Of Implementing The Demands Of The Demonstrators And Taking Care Of The Student Segment, The Government Resorts To Using Force Against The Demonstrating Youth, Who Expressed The State Of Failure In Which The Ruling Parties Are Leading The Kurdistan Region."

He Added That "The Region Is Living In Tragic Conditions Due To The Economic And Financial Conditions, The High Price Of Fuel And The Imposition Of Taxes, And All Of This, While The Ruling Parties Are In Harmony With The Region's Wealth And Resources."

The Protest Demonstrations In Sulaymaniyah For Several Days Recorded Severe Injuries Among The Protesters, While Human Rights Organizations Recorded An Increase In Cases Of Repression And The Use Of Live Bullets.

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bump. another protest again. come on iraq, just rv your currency to avoid more and bigger protest in the near future.. just wonder why would the iraqi government never listen to them? where is Al-Khademi when the protest happened?

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What’s it finally gonna take for these bureaucrats to wake the hell up and do right by the people ?

Incessant chin wagging, a bazillion Captain Obvious news articles, dictionary size book of excuses, delays & postponements: Eeeeesh... looks like the folks are say enough is enough. ( uh, so am I ). 
 

I suggested some time back they’d talk the currency issue all the way into early 2022. Perhaps that’s the plan all along ? I’m assuming they have a plan? Sorta looks it. ....providing they don’t start trotting out excuses for delaying the RV.

Dont think that’ll make Sadr happy-we’d all like think he’s the solution not part of the problem.

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Combating terrorism in Sulaymaniyah: We will confront any party, political party, or anyone directing the protests for their own purposes

by Editor Iraq news 59 Minutes ago

The Anti-Terrorism Directorate in Sulaymaniyah issued a statement about the demonstrations, declaring that it supports the demands of the demonstrators.

In its statement, the directorate said that any party, political party or any person directing the protests for their own purposes will be severely confronted, and that the regional government reassures the people of Kurdistan and students that protecting their interests is its responsibility.

The statement stressed the need to confront the hands that obstruct the achievement of the legitimate goals of the demonstrations, and one of the government's basic duties is to maintain the security and stability of citizens, and to defend government departments and institutions.

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Barham Salih: Sulaymaniyah tensions are "unfortunate" and disturbing public security is a "condemned matter"

“The duty of the security forces to protect protesters and public security” 

 Kurdistan24 Erbil   18 hours

       

Barham Saleh

 

 

Erbil (Kurdistan 24) - Today, Wednesday, Iraqi President Barham Salih expressed his regret over the tensions in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, and said that breaching public security is a "condemned matter."

"The tensions in Sulaymaniyah are unfortunate and unacceptable," Saleh wrote on his Twitter account, adding that "the peaceful demonstration of students is a guaranteed constitutional right."

He pointed out that "disturbing public security and violence against civilians is condemned."

He continued, "The duty of the security forces to protect the demonstrators and public security, and we all have to work to protect civil peace and public property and secure the citizen's right to a free and dignified life."

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Al-Kazemi on the events in Sulaymaniyah: Attacking demonstrators and property is unacceptable

•  Time: 11/25/2021 08:05:51
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{Political: Al-Furat News} Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi commented on the recent Sulaimaniyah events and demonstrations.

Al-Kazemi said in a tweet on Twitter at dawn today: "The recent painful events in the Kurdistan region, especially in the dear Sulaymaniyah, call for a responsible position from everyone, to protect social peace and stop the deterioration."
And he stated that "peaceful demonstrations are a constitutionally guaranteed right, and attacks on demonstrators, as well as attacks on public or private property, are unacceptable."
Hundreds of students from universities and institutes of Sulaymaniyah, Halabja, Garmian, Rabreen and Jarmo closed the doors of their universities and institutes to demand the payment of withholding grants and to prevent professors, staff and medical staff from entering the university campus, expressing their dissatisfaction and ignoring their demands.
This has been demonstrating since the days of university students in Sulaymaniyah to demand the payment of monthly grants, and protesters have blocked roads in every city, until their demands are implemented. 
The scholarships provided to students, by the Kurdistan Regional Government, amount to 50 thousand dinars for students who live in Sulaymaniyah, and 100 thousand dinars for students who live outside Sulaymaniyah.
In addition to the problem of scholarships, students of the internal departments suffer from a lack of some basic services in the internal departments, especially those related to winter requirements such as fuel and electric energy.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the Council of Ministers in the Kurdistan region decided to allocate financial support to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to improve the reality of the internal departments and the living conditions of students. It denounces the contempt and insult to the sanctities of the region and the flag of Kurdistan by some people, as well as the attacks and belittling of the security forces and the destruction and sabotage of institutions.

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Change Movement: The Power In The Region Is Looted By The Ruling Families And Their Armed Factions

 

LAST UPDATE 11/26/2021 | 11:15 AM

 

 

Information/Baghdad.

On Friday, the Kurdish Change Movement accused the Talabani and Bazani families of stealing power and the people's wealth, indicating that the revenues of the region's outlets are spent on the ruling families and do not reach the citizens.

The former deputy of the Change Movement, Ghaleb Muhammad, said in a televised interview, which was followed by “The Information” that “the revenues of the region’s outlets are spent on the ruling families and do not reach the citizens, and that the authority in the region is looted by the ruling families and their armed factions.”

He added, "There are shootings at citizens and kidnappings against them, and what is happening in Sulaymaniyah is because of the militias affiliated with the ruling authority."

He pointed out that "more than 50 thousand people have reached the number of demonstrators in the region, and that the Erbil government is failing in dealing with the crises that afflict the region, and 60 percent of the revenues from the outlets go to the private companies affiliated with the ruling families in the region." Ended 25 D

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Students of Iraq..the revolution machine that must not calm down

The desired change in the political, economic and social conditions is much greater than the student protest movement alone can bear.

Saturday 11/27/2021

 

The scene in Sulaymaniyah

Social mobility is not only a “spontaneous” reaction to poor economic, political and social conditions in a society, but rather the beginning of an attempt to realign the affected social forces to organize themselves and develop their methods of struggle for a more just and free society. The so-called new social movements were launched in France in 1968 by what is known as the May events that forced Charles de Gaulle to flee the country at the time, and these protests were accompanied by many youth activities such as the spread of revolutionary songs and exhibitions of drawings in the open air and organizing slogans in line with the social political situation at the time, and what Soon, those protests spread to different countries of the world. It is worth noting that the May events began with student demonstrations that were suppressed by the French police using excessive force, which prompted the trade unions to demonstrate with the students so that the demonstrations continued with more force.

Students have played a prominent role in the lives of their peoples and homelands in political turns and during economic and social crises through their participation in popular protests against injustice, persecution, poverty and discrimination, and for logical and acceptable solutions to those crises. The passage of the Civil Rights Act in America, for example, was initiated by four black students who refused to leave the lunch table, which forbade blacks from sitting to whites in the restaurant of Woolworth College in North Carolina, known for its racist history towards blacks and colored people. A committee under the name of the Student Peaceful Coordination Committee, which was a major reason for its tireless struggle to end racial segregation in the United States.

The students in South Africa led from the 1970-1980s uprisings, sit-ins, and student demonstrations that were met with extreme violence, but eventually led to an end to the apartheid regime there as well. The so-called “velvet revolution” remains in Prague, which the students led in a completely peaceful manner even after Confronting riot police is one of the most successful student experiences in changing a political system, not to mention the social changes that accompanied that change. And one of the most successful revolutions led by a student movement in modern history."

Student demonstrations and strikes continued in the thirties of the last century in support of the demands of the Iraqi national movement, whose features began to become clear through the establishment of political parties. In the year 1948, the students participated in the Kanon leap and offered a number of martyrs for it and the aspirations of our people, forcing the authorities at that time to cancel the Treaty of Portsmouth.

Student activity continued steadily and more organizationally after the establishment of the first student organization, the General Union of Iraqi Students in the year 1948, following the convening of its first conference in Al-Sebaa Square in Baghdad, and was preceded in the fall of 1945 by the formation of the student organization for students of the High Teachers House. In the year 1952, our people’s uprising erupted with the spark of a strike at the College of Pharmacy, which the students of the rest of the colleges and high schools soon joined, to write a revolutionary epic that shook the pillars of the reactionary authority, forcing it to take the army to the streets to confront the young Iraqi writers who believed in the cause of their people and their country. In 1956, after the tripartite aggression against Egypt, Iraqi students actively participated in the 1956 uprising. The year 1967 is considered the last organized revolutionary student activity after the General Student Union list won eighty percent of the student vote in the student elections, which sowed terror in the ranks of the repressive authority. And pushed it to cancel the elections and prosecute student activists.

The absence of white collars from the political and social scene continued after their enforced absence until October 2019, when the heroic uprising of our people was plotting the feats while facing smoke bombs and sniper bullets from the Wali al-Faqih and his agents with bare chests and to advance for the aspirations of our people and their salvation from the authority of sectarian national quotas hundreds of martyrs, wounded and disabled . At that time, the rumbling torrent of students came out to give greater impetus to the October uprising, remembering the generations that preceded it as they relentlessly waged the national struggle, and the days of their departure were a national wedding and hope for a better tomorrow for our Iraq and our people, and at the same time they were a nightmare perched on the authority and its militias.

For long periods, there was coordination between the General Student Union in the Iraqi Republic and the Kurdistan Student Union in the face of the Baathist Student Authority, and today, despite the lack of active participation of Kurdish students in the demonstrations of their fellow students during the valiant October uprising, standing by the students of Iraqi Kurdistan as they face The suppression of the Taliban family authority is part of the struggle of the Iraqi students, especially since the students and the masses of our Kurdish people are suffering just as the students and the masses of our people in all parts of Iraq suffer from corruption, oppression, poverty and unemployment. The students of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan should work today to form peaceful coordination committees that extend to all cities and districts of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan for continuous consultation, in order to unify the demanding discourse and transform it into political demands that begin and end with the grave of the corrupt and criminal national sectarian quota system.

The desired change in the political, economic and social conditions is much greater than what the student protest movement alone can bear. Therefore, in addition to coordinating among themselves at the level of the entire country, they must open channels of communication with the national and Kurdish democratic forces that have real interests and political programs capable of saving the country from the monster of the corrupt authorities in region and Iraq in general. The task of saving our homeland and our people is one of the tasks of the most aware social groups in society, and the students are the spearhead of these groups being the most aware, after the decline of the role of workers and peasants as a result of the collapse of their union organizations, and the dominance of the rule of sects and families over the Iraqi and Kurdistan political decision, and the confiscation of awareness by institutions and religious parties.

"Democracy is not a referendum by the majority... If Americans had voted, black people would still be slaves." Martin Luther King

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The Kurdistan Regional Government says it will not pardon people who insulted the Kurdistan flag during the demonstrations

 

 2021-11-27 06:15

 

Shafaq News/ The Kurdistan Regional Government vowed on Saturday to impose legal sanctions against people who insulted the flag of Kurdistan during the protests of university and institute students.

The head of the regional government, Masrour Barzani, said during a meeting with a group of university students, that "the problems should be solved through dialogue, and if you want demonstrations, demonstrate in a civilized manner away from violence and burning government buildings," adding that "your demands have reached us, and we are making efforts to find a solution to them."

He stressed that "no person or any party should be allowed to exploit the protests for their political ends."

And he added, "Those who showed disrespect for the flag of Kurdistan, and trampled on it, will be referred to the law, and their act will not pass without accountability," while strongly condemning this act, saying that "thousands of martyrs from our people sacrificed their blood to preserve this flag."

On the issue of cutting financial grants, Barzani asks, saying: It was cut off 7 years ago, and since the financial crisis, so why at this particular time was this issue raised?

He added that the federal government cut Kurdistan's share of the budget for a period of four years, and that the regional government had taken care of securing salaries and other needs, depending on its internal revenues.

He continued by saying that the federal government did not send the salaries of employees and workers in the private sector for 12 months, noting that Baghdad owes $23 billion in financial dues to Kurdistan.

Masrour Barzani pointed out that opposition political parties in the region were asking the federal government to cut salaries and budgets for the region, and at the same time incited the population against the Kurdistan government with the aim of bringing it down.