You need us in the Nineveh Plain otherwise you will lose it to Iran.
KRG PM Barzani on Sept 14th 2023 in Baghdad:
All smiles with Qais Khazali, the sanctioned leader of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, a Iran-backed US-designated terrorist group in Iraq.
Back in May 2023, KRG President Barzani also met with Khazali, and according to reports, "congratulated Khazali on the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq movement."
If you're ever in doubt that power determines not only the facts on the ground but the rewriting of history, you only have to see the results in rhetoric like this.
One of the only conceptual frameworks left for indigenous people to argue for their rights is co-opted and abused.
Many Kurds played an active role in the genocide of indigenous peoples for over a century, whether by aiding the Ottomans and continuing their policies or enabling ISIS to wreak havoc. Now begins the task of rewriting this sordid history backwards into an imagined past.
Feb 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"Freedom of Religious Belief" is a narrow Western policy framework devised to understand and grade far-flung areas of the world that are far more complex than the framework can accurately process. All of the people touched by it deserve better.
What results is a blinkered view of minority communities and the politics around them. It becomes a reductive mechanism to produce knowledge with authority for policymakers who are too eager to find success stories in bleak scenarios.
