By Tahseen Wsu Abdullah
If the referendum process for other peoples and nations of the world, a mechanism to ensure independence and the establishment of an independent state, but this issue for South Kurdistan, not only related to the establishment of an independent state, but also a way to survive against threats and dangers.
In other words, after a hundred years of testing its fate with the Arab Iraqi state without its consent and will, but after testing the treatment of successive Iraqi governments in the past, even after the disappearance of the authoritarian Ba’athist regime in addition, it is working in every way and mechanism to weaken even the experience recognized in the permanent Iraqi constitution.
Therefore, the Kurdistan Region wanted to hold a referendum to guarantee its survival after the war against ISIS, and to move closer to achieving independence and the establishment of a state, in order to get rid of the unsuccessful experience with the Iraqi state.
After the end of the ISIS war, there will be dangerous changes in the Middle East. All the powerful countries have tried to establish their interests, especially in terms of control of oil and gas, but what is remarkable is that in terms of the rights of the peoples and nations of the Middle East. In this regard, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) leadership intended to strengthen the foundations of resistance and survival of the Kurdistan Region.
For example, hundreds of thousands of children, the elderly and women are being killed in Syria. The powerful countries have not tried to reach any serious agreement on the lives of these citizens.
That is why in the Kurdistan Region, all Kurdish political parties led by Mr. Masoud Barzani chose the path of the referendum for two purposes: to survive and protect Kurdistan after the war against ISIS, from the unknown threat that was expected.
That is, the leadership of South Kurdistan is not sure whether it can guarantee the political, economic and cultural gains it has made within the framework of the Arab Iraq that is now ruled by dangerous forces after the war against ISIS. The fear of some Kurdish leaders was real. Most Kurdish parties had been warned several times before the process by the Kurdistan Regional Government’s political leadership of dangerous developments, because it is not easy to understand what it means to survive and protect what the Kurdistan Region has achieved since the disappearance of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship.
Therefore, in the absence of a great interest, especially between the region and the international forces, the Kurdistan Region should use its strength and unity to prove to the forces that it has its own will to survive and protect itself.
At the domestic level, the understanding of the concept of survival by political parties and even those who did not support the referendum process was an important opportunity to develop a comprehensive national strategy, so that all parties can organize themselves together. To end the misery and failed experiment that has been going on for a hundred years.