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A Call For Help And Justice
Statement of the Council of Nineveh Province Notables, Sheikhs and
Uleima.
12/31/05 "ICSI"
In the Name of God the Compassionate and Merciful
A memorandum from Nineveh Province Dignitaries, Sheikhs and Uleima
to:
General Secretary of the United Nations
General Secretary of the League of Arab Nations
General Secretary of the Organisation of Islamic States
Kings and Presidents of the Arab and Islamic States
All Humanitarian and Human Rights Organisations
In the light of the difficult circumstance that our country and
people in general and the Province of Nineveh in particular are
going through, a number of dignitaries and tribal chiefs from the
Nineveh Province have met to discuss the tragic condition of the
people of the Province under the shadow of the deficiency and
absence of legislative and executive authorities and their security
and military authorities which have changed to become tools for the
oppression of the people of the Province and to add further to their
misery.
After discussions, it was decided to raise the following memorandum
in the hope it may find some response to this call to protect this
Arabic Islamic city and to assist our people in the Province of
Nineveh.
We demand an International Committee of Enquiry in addition to an
Iraqi committee formed by representatives of Uleima, Sheikhs and
Notables drawn from central and southern Iraq to investigate the
crimes committed by the American occupation forces assisted by
members of the Interior Special Forces and National Guard. We
especially point to the sectarian crimes and the rape of Iraqi women
which count as grave precedent in Iraq. The Iraqi Government is
partner to all of these crimes in the absence of the media and in
particular the killing and kidnapping of journalists by mercenaries
of the occupation after terrorising and excluding satellite stations
and Arabic and International media preventing the coverage of what
is going on to enable the slaughter of Iraqi people without
witnesses.
As we lay before the international public opinion and international
human rights organisations the truth of what is happening in Tel
Afar of the extreme use of force and the use of internationally
forbidden weapons of poison gases, cluster, microwave and napalm
bombs, we demand autopsies be carried out on the corpses of our sons
who fell in the barbaric aggression by international medical bodies
to verify the inhuman practices carried out by the American forces
of occupation and to expose the stooge militias that participated in
the massacre of Tel Afar.
We warn as responsible people of the dangers of the ongoing ethnic
cleansing in Tel Afar and the left bank of the city of Mosul and
surrounding villages carried out by Beshmarga militias of the
Kurdish parties and Badir Brigade “which are acting as regular
forces of the National Guard” aided by the silence of the government
where in particular the homes of the Sunna in the city of Tel Afar
are destroyed after the men are arrested and women and children are
forcibly evicted under threat of death and rape.
We demand an end to the organised campaign of arrest against the
Sunna. About fifty to a hundred sons, sheikhs and teachers of the
Province are arrested only to be released days later after the
payment of bribes which exposes how low the perpetrators are and
their aim of breaking the morale of the people of the Province.
We demand the trial of the ministers of defence and interior for
what they have caused to our people in Tel Afar and Mosul as a
result of crimes rejected by human conscience. We also hold the
government responsible for the exterminations and bloody butchery
which took place in the city of Tel Afar and the extreme cruelty
meted out to Sunna civilians both Arab and Turcoman.
We also demand the removal of the Governor of Nineveh Duraid
Kashmoola who was too weak to do anything to assist the people of
the Province and for keeping silent about all the assassinations and
arrests carried out the Kurdish gangs and the Forces of Badir
against the sons and notables of the Province. We also site his
silence and failure to put a stop to Kurdish expansion which has
encompassed all the villages of the Province. Kurdish gangs have
abrogated the right to the control of all towns and villages
surrounding Mosul where they treat all non Arabs even though they
are not Kurdish such as Yezidis, Assyrians and Shabak, as Kurds by
force. They also appointed party functionaries over such villages,
took down the Iraqi flags and raised Kurdish flags instead.
Kurdish militias have in fact occupied the left bank of the city of
Mosul itself and took down the Iraqi flags then raised Kurdish flags
instead. The Governor has not stirred because the Province is lead
by the Kurdish deputy Governor Khisro Kolani. He is the very person
responsible for leading all of the extermination and assassination
operations against the Uleima, the sons of the Province, its sheikhs
and teachers. All of the people of Mosul know that he is the person
responsible for the assassination of the previous Governor Dr. Osama
Yousif Kashmoola because he made a stand against the Kurdish tide.
While we warn of the gravity of the security situation in the
Province in general and Tel Afar in particular we lay the
responsibility for the latest sectarian escalation upon the party
militias working as regular forces such as the National Guard as
represented by the wolf and thunder brigades. In addition to
arbitrary arrests, inhuman treatment, violation of residents’ rights
and the theft of their belongings they shout upon entering towns in
the Province “The army of AlHusain is here to break the noses of the
Sunnis”. This is a simple indicator of the sectarianism and hatred
of such groups which was not familiar to either Sunni or Shia Iraqis
and is a further clear indicator of the treachery of the parties
that entered from beyond the borders of the Iraqi people.
We demand the withdrawal of all militias and all armed
manifestations from the city of Mosul where these militias have
established check points and distributed weapons to young militia
men in an effort to terrorise the residents of Mosul. They have cut
off roads arbitrarily while the Governor does nothing; in fact he is
the last to know. They have hoisted Kurdish flags over buildings in
order to establish a de facto state as if we live in a country that
is not Iraq. Every one knows that Mosul (despite our belief that all
Iraqi cities are for all Iraqis) is an Arab city from old while the
Kurdish residents in the left bank are those who migrated in last
few years under pressure of difficult circumstances encountered in
their areas. The people of Mosul opened their arms to their brothers
and embraced them not to turn their city Kurdish because they
believed in the unity of this country. This is in sharp contrast
with the banning of Iraqi Arabs from owning, building or investing
in the northern areas. In addition there is a campaign of harassment
to non Kurdish travellers to the north of Iraq.
We protest at the news blackout and total silence practiced by
international organisations and human rights organisations towards
what is taking place in Tel Afar and Mosul.
We protest at the news blackout and total silence practiced by Arab
satellite stations towards what happened and is happening in Tel
Afar and Mosul.
We protest the Arab, Islamic and International silence towards the
use of weapons of mass destruction against our people in Tel Afar
and demand an International Committee of Enquiry similar to the one
investigating the death of Al-Hariri or is the blood of the people
of Iraq in Tel Afar does not warrant investigating?
With God’s Peace and Blessings
The Council of Nineveh Province Notables, Sheikhs and Uleima.
Mosul 22/12/2005
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