If Kurds are blocked from entering their homes in the Kirkuk province the census data will falsely show that the residents in Kirkuk (such as Palkana village) are ethnic Arabs and this will be used to further marginalise the Kurds in Kirkuk and Iraq will push for further arabisation policies.
Tomorrow a 2 day curfew will be imposed across Iraq and over 120.000 field researchers will go door to door to collect data on the citizens living there.
This is the first census in Iraq in roughly 30 years.
(Saddam Hussein) as part of the Arab belt policy and the genocide against the Kurdish people by the Iraqi regime.
(In short: the Iraqi military killed and displaced the Kurds living in Kirkuk and then gave the land to Arab settlers)
The Kirkuk region and in particular some villages such as Palkana village are regularly being claimed by Iraqi (Arab) settlers.
The settlers are claiming that villages such as Palkana village rightfully belong to them citing ownership-papers that were issued to them by the Iraqi Ba’ath regime
The census is feared by some to be used to further marginalise ethnic minorities in Iraq and indeed as Kurds are being blocked from entering their homes in Kirkuk to prevent them from participating in the census data collection, this fear holds true.
Autonomous Region of Kurdistan (Iraq)
The Iraqi army is blocking Kurdish residents from entering their homes in the Kirkuk region (Palkana) amidst the Iraqi national census on November 20&21
To desecrate and to murder and to abuse and to oppress woman is part of the turkish identity and consequently it’s part of the identity of Hamas.
Footage of turkish soldiers committing war crimes against Kurdish pow in Turkey - all under the banner of NATO
More footage exists.
If this sounds familiar - then it is familiar.
Why? Because the same axis of evil led by the turkish state is currently doing the same thing in Israel.
They’ve done the same thing in Afrin.
They’ve done the same thing in the mountains of the KRG (Iraq)
They do it everywhere
4 years ago the turkish army and their proxy forces SNA have captured and murdered the kurdish politician Hevrin Khalaf - they’ve severely beaten, abused and ultimately executed her.
Her murder was part of the Turkey led & US greenlighted operation ‚Peacespring‘ to occupy Rojava
