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Sedition in Kurdistan

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Sunday, February 24 2008, 22:50:33 (CET)
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Assyrian Commentator Detained, Later Released, by KDP

(ZNDA: Mosul) On Sunday, 17 February around 6:30 pm, the Assyrian Church of the East deacon and writer Johnny Khoshaba al-Rekani was abducted from his home in the town of Telkepe (Telkaif) in the Nineveh Governorate in north Iraq by members of the KDP peshmerga loyal to the Kurdish President Masoud Barazani.

The peshmerga abducted Mr. Khoshaba from his home in the Nineveh Governorate and transferred him to Sekrene, a high-security prison facility near Sarsink, north of Dohuk in the Dohuk Governorate which is under the Kurdish control.

..in the first place there is no "Nineveh Governate"...not something independent and unto itself. In the second place the guy wasn't "abducted", he was arrested and taken to prison...like criminals all over the world. It's the United States that's abducting and renedering people in Iraq...not Kurdish oficials.

Mr. Khoshaba was charged with criticising the Kurdish authorities and KRG Finance Minister Sargis Aghajan. He was also warned against writing about the corruption and sex scandals of the Assyrian Church of the East Bishop Ishaq Khamis and the bishop's loyalty to the Kurdish authorities.

...what's the big deal? Which forum of ours in AMERICA doesn't warn us not to criticize in ways THEY don't approve of? This tone of indignation and outrage would be more belieevable if our people could show that they zealously protect and respect the right of all people to criticize freely...till then, it's just one tyrant pissed at another.

Mr. al-Rekani uses his personal web site "alSarkha" (The Outcry) at alsarkha.uv.ro to bring attention to the unfairness of the Kurdish policies against the Assyrians.

...obviously you can't do that....not according to THEIR law...I can't even get on a fucking FORUM in America-free-and-brave to criticize Maggie....and we demand that sort of freedom in KURDISTAN?

Mr. al-Rekani also comments on how Kurdish officials exploit certain Assyrians to achieve their plans. Previously, he has also used his website to report on the scandals involving the clergymen in northern Iraq.

...well of COURSE they're going to bust him!!! Hells bells in AMERICA-free-and-brave high school students were thrown out fo school and threatened for wearing T SHIRTS critical of Bush.....what are you people TALKING ABOUT?

..The Kurds have every right to increase censorship at such a time...the United States has legalized TORTURE and illegal wire-tapping and who knows what else..and Kurdistan must allow FREE SPEECH to every jackass of ours who thinks he's Ashurbanipal's kid??? Give us a break!

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