By Salam Abdullah
Like everyone else, you have seen on television screens the unfavorable behavior of the Iraqi army towards Kurdish farmers in the Sargaran area, how they resisted with the force of armed forces, tanks and armored vehicles The Kurdish farmers became Kurdish. How cruelly he treated the landowners of the area whose only sin was to dig up their own lands that belonged to them according to official Iraqi and even Ottoman documents.
These lands were Arabized during the previous regime and evacuated from the indigenous population inherited from their ancestors, after the expulsion of their owners, all of whom were Kurds, by order Dictator Saddam was imported as an Arab. In fact, this problem should have started soon after the fall of the regime and our Kurdish members of parliament, ministers and officials should have played an active role in it It was not, on the pretext that this issue was included in Article 140 of the constitution, which as we can see, was delayed by various conspiracies that may be due to our own negligence as Kurds in this regard hasn’t been.
Currently, 20 years have passed since the rewriting of the Iraqi constitution, but despite the fact that according to the same constitution in Article 9 says: The Iraqi army must be subordinate to the leadership of civilian authorities and must not be an instrument It should not interfere in political affairs.
The House of Representatives decided on December 21 to return the land occupied by the former regime to its original owners.
However, despite the parliament’s decision, the army continued to block Kurdish farmers in a very diverse manner that was nothing less than the behavior of the previous regime, so the Iraqi parliament and legal institutions must put a limit on this Stop interfering and not repeating it.