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=== News Update ===
West’s attempt to divide Iraq on sectarian grounds
Abdujabbar al-Samarai , Azzaman
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Published December 3, 2006
Several years before the 2003 U.S. invasion, western media had already
divided the Iraqi society into several ethnic and sectarian groups. Even
western powers, particularly the U.S. and the U.K. had their prior
invasion policies based on the fact that Iraq was divisible into at
least three separate ethnic, sectarian and geographical regions.
The two powers even resorted to military means to translate their
strategy of partitioning the country on the ground. They create two no-
fly zones one in the north and one in the south ostensibly to protect
the northern Sunni Kurds and the southern Arab Shiites from the
'oppressive’ Arab Sunni regime in the center.
When the two powers occupied Iraq, they pressed ahead with their
strategy. Instead of working for a unified and multicolored Iraq, they
began driving one wedge after another between the different components
of the society.
In the pre-invasion period they had two no-fly zones. In the post-
invasion period they destroyed the country’s institutions in which the
various sects, faiths and nationalities were represented.
In the institutions they dismantled differences like those surfacing
currently in Iraq were non-existent. There were Arab Shiites and Sunni
Kurds serving at the various levels of administration. In fact many
Iraqis would even not bother to ask whether the president of a
university, the dean of a college, the governor of a province or even
the head of the security or intelligence at the provincial levels was
Shiite, Sunni, Christian or Kurd.
There were Christian and Shiite Baathists at the head of Baath party
organizations in many provinces in Iraq. Iraqis rarely asked whether the
boss who reported to former leader Saddam Hussein was Shiite, Sunni,
Kurd or Christian. Those were rarely issue of concern to them.
Today, conditions are different in what is supposed to be a democratic
Iraq. Every where and at any level of government – civil or military –
the first thing to know is who is who at all ranks of the newly formed
institutions.
Not only that. The ministries are now divided on sectarian and ethnic
grounds. So are almost all the new institutions the invaders or their
lackeys have set up. A ministry could be Shiite, for example. Not only
that. It could be under the hegemony of a certain Shiite faction. The
minister owes his presence and loyalty to the faction he belongs to and
not to the nation.
Every new brick the invaders added to our institutions is tainted with
sectarianism. The first thing Iraqis would like to know now is whether
the police or military commander of the force assigned to protect them
is Shiite, Sunni or Kurd and which faction he belongs to. Some
communities would rather have the anti-U.S. rebels or even al-Qaeda-
related insurgents govern their areas than relinquishing control to
units led by commanders of opposite sect.
The invaders are the reason of this mistrust. They nourished these
divisions right in the aftermath of their occupation. They are to blame
for the carnage and atrocities taking place now because they fueled the
sectarian divide in a country where sectarian borders are impossible to
draw.
Take the Iraqi Arabs who make up more than 80 per cent of the
population. The major Arab tribes like the Shammar, the Zubaid, the
Rabiaa, the Jibour, the Tai, the Iza and many others straddle the
sectarian divide the invaders have created. These tribes are composed of
both Arab Sunni and Shiite members who for centuries defended each other
and have been connected through bonds of blood and marriage.
Kurds and Turkmen, the other two major minorities, are present
throughout the country. There are about one million Kurds in Baghdad
alone and it is almost impossible to have them distanced from the rest
because of the ties of marriage and shared cultural and religious
values.
The invaders have indeed destroyed the fabric of coexistence and
tolerance that unified the country. This is why most Iraqis would rather
have them leave in humiliation. Their presence is part of the problem
and not solution.
source:
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=opinion%5C2006-12-03%
5Ckurd1.htm
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