Kurdistan - Women in Iraq / Documentary Video

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Kurdistan: Women in Iraq / Documentary Video. Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0. Producer: S L James. Kurdistan Video Project (2008) Video documentary series on contemporary politics in Kurdistan in Iraq. The inerviews were recorded between May and October 2008. These videos offers a selection of edited interviews on governance and social-political issues in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq featuring Prof Brendan O'Leary (University of Pennsylvania), Prof Gareth Stansfield (University of Exeter), Nimrud Youkhana (Assyrian Patriotic Party), Abubakir Ali (Kurdistan Islamic Union), Saadi pera (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan), Falah Mustafa Bakir (Kurdistan Regional Government Foreign Minister), Prof Kemal Kirisci (Bogazici University), Qubad Jalal Talabany (Kurdistan Regional Government representative to the United States), Mustafa Gundogdu (Kurdish Human Rights Project), Dr Nadje Al-Ali (School of Oriental and African Studies). Also available on Video Google: Kurdistan: Politics in Iraq http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5756636053862568466&hl;=en Kurdistan: Disputed Territories in Iraq http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-3318658663679349330 Kurdistan: Iraq, Turkey and the PKK http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8683759853687428728 Kurdistan: Women in Iraq http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2259536325453891829 Producer: S L James Language: English / Kurdish Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 1st Step in Solving the Crisis in Iraq: Create an Independent Kurdistan; In order to solve the current crisis in Iraq, the following steps should be taken: 1) Create an independent Kurdistan nation from northern Iraq. 2) Meanwhile, allow the Sunni and Shiite and other factions to begin talks to see if they want to establish one independent nation or two independent nations from what would remain of Iraq. This plan would help to avoid or minimize civil war and make the region stable. After these new nations are formed, the foreign troops would then be required to withdraw if requested by these new nations. The point here, is, not what is in the best "national interest" of the USA and other nearby nations, but, what is in the best humanitarian interest of the people who live in the current state of Iraq. After all, weren't the Americans supposed to be liberators? It is impossible to understand the Kurdish people without knowing something about their painful history. In the late 1980s, nearly 5,000 Kurdish villages were destroyed by Saddam's regime and some were attacked with chemical weapons. Tens of thousands of people were deported to the deserts of southern Iraq, and many disappeared or were found buried in mass graves. In 1991, just after the Gulf War ended, the Kurdistanis rose up against Saddam, but were brutally suppressed. They fled to the high mountains, where many suffered from exposure and disease. So the British and American governments established a 'safe haven' to protect them. The people of Kurdistan started to restore their shattered lives from 1991, but continued to live in fear and uncertainty until 2003. Today, the Kurds are enjoying peace and stability, and are working hard to give their children a better life. The Kurdistan Region is in northern Iraq. Similarly to Scotland and Wales, it has some autonomy from the central government in Baghdad and has its own regional government and parliament. The three provinces that make up the Region are called Erbil, Suleimaniah and Dohuk. The Kurdistan Region is much safer than the rest of Iraq: not a single coalition soldier has been killed there. Tens of thousands of Kurdistanis suffered under Saddam's regime, and they were grateful when foreign forces removed him from power. About three and a half million people live in Kurdistan. They are mostly Kurds, as well as Christians, Turkmen and Arabs. These people from different ethnic backgrounds live peacefully alongside each other in the same towns and cities. The people traditionally live on farming, but now many live and work in the Region's growing cities. Because Kurdistan is much safer and more stable than the rest of Iraq, the people can start to focus on improving their daily lives and planning for their future. Keywords: Kurdish, Kurdistani, Kurd, Kurdistanis, Kurdistan, Kurdistans, Kurdis, American, Bush, United States, USA. Audio from Secret of the Rosary Films. Music from the public domain.