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Do you have to be a Kurd to report Kurdish
tragedies? 24.5.2007
By Steve Tataii, eKurd.net contributing writer
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May
24, 2007 -
A letter
to Emily Lenzner, NPR Radio
California, eKurd.net
A letter to Emily Lenzner NPR dated: May 20, 2007
I'm shocked, and quite disturb by how we continue to
hop over some of the most horrific attacks on
Kurdish civilians, which has again restarted in the
past two weeks, and while our Politicians continue
to hold up the Recognition of an Independent State
for the Kurds of South Kurdistan at least since
2004, when finally the two major Kurdish parties
united.
I have kept telling some of our law makers to please
hurry up, and let the Kurds have their officially
recognized state, but no one listens except a few
with their voices silenced after they present their
piece before the Senate Foreign Relation committee
or elsewhere. |
Steve Tataii, author of several books on Kurds and
Kurdistan and
recent U.S. Senator
Candidate in the 2006 elections-
Tataii website |
The May 19, 2007 Kurdish civilian Genocide in
village of Qara Lous has not only been ignored by
NPR so far (May 20, 2007); but also by all the
mainstream media clear across the board so far.
I keep up with the Kurdish Current Events, because I
am a Kurd by origin.
Do you have to be a Kurd to report their tragedies?
Kurds have the right to their state like everybody
else does I mind you all.
It will remain to be a modern day's disturbing man's
trend to only focus on what has some kind of
financial gain to most of these media entities, and
I'm not at all including NPR in them, or at least
not yet, and pray to God that It won't get to that.
This is not only a sad case of hijacking our freedom
of speech by that group, and a sickening living
standard to follow, but it is pathetic.
I'm reporting the news of this gruesome attack on
Kurdish civilians, and I'm sure it happened, because
not only it was reported by some not-for-profit news
websites, but it is on KTV news segments if you care
to verify it for yourself.
So in addition to AFP; please go to
www.kurdistantv.net and click on their
live TV linkage in either languages' page. The news
is reported nearly every 2 hours in Kurdish except
once in Arabic. I last saw this news at 2:30 p.m.
Eastern Time.
On a personal note; I'm the author of 3 recent
Current Event Books on Kurds, Kurdistan, and Iraq
war. Another unreported story. I like to encourage
you to look at these books' titles, their cover
photos, and some backgrounds in my own website, and
some other major outlets such as bn.com, amazon.com,
and others by simply typing "Steve Tataii" in their
search engines.
I have tried to be on NPR related shows regarding my
books since they came out last year on March, and
April 2006, but no one has replied, so I a kind of
gave up.
Time has never been on our sides Emily, when it
comes to put an end to these tragedies, and it would
be an endless suffering of this, the largest nation
of around 50 million Kurds still without a
recognized country of their own, when We have even
reached to that point, now in the palm of our hands;
to declare their independence for one out of the 4
unjustly partitioned Kurdistans in South Kurdistan
(North of the defunct Iraq). This was not caused by
Kurds lack of ability to fight for their national
homeland territorial integrity, but it was caused by
a frenzy of several nations with military powers,
and regretfully calling themselves
democratic-civilized nations, non other than the
1920s colonial powers of Europe or Britain-France
empowering all the present invading states of
Turkey, Iran, Iraq (until 2003), and Syria, to use
them as puppets for their colonial exploitations,
sucking up Kurdish national oil revenues at least
since 1923, while Kurds themselves, robbed of their
own natural resources' benefits as mentioned, did
not receive any of their own oil revenues.
Not until they were given the chance to receive 13%
of the revenues in 1996, and even most of that was
stolen by the many gangs, including UN, who have
mastered themselves to erase all the evidence from
their thievery.
What mainstream media is doing against the Kurds is
totally reckless, and irresponsible. For example the
Yezidi Kurds in the North of South Kurdistan make up
less than 0.002% of the entire Kurdish population,
which amounts to about 1500 or less. Instead of
reporting the horrible massacre of the Kurdish
civilians on May 19th; CNN's "Melisa" at about 11;10
a.m.
Yesterday (May 19, 2007) reported and televised a
cell phone camera version of this late reported
incident, hence added to public's diversion of
attention to the Kurdish people's key, and urgent
vital needs.
Imagine; the harder they have fought for their
Liberation in 87 years gone by; Now they are being
abused, and depicted negatively with just one
incident representing less than 0.002% of the 50
million Kurdish nation.
This really adds to further stereotyping of the
Kurds; when isolated felonies similar to this
happens around the world, and while the criminals
have
been arrested, and will be dealt with in their court
of Justice.
What I'm trying to say is; that isolated "remote
minority social" cases should not be compromised
with REAL, and ongoing human sufferings caused by
external powers,
and obviously as the result of preventing a whole
nation of Kurds from developing their living
conditions; when they have been robbed of their own
natural resources' revenues for over 80 years, and
the greedy players in depriving them of their
statehood are still the cause of this abhorrent
condition.
Yes Kurds like any other people have isolated
incidents too, but who are we to judge them, while
they have taken care of their people in the past
12,000 years? Are we, in other countries perfect?
No, but we all thrive to perfection.
By the way, the number of massacred reached 20
today, after 4 more died of their wounds;
specifically the Kurdish mother trying to prevent
the shooting of her young son with herself shot in
the process. Were they al-Qaeda for sure?
Certainly no one has proven anything other than they
spoke Arabic, and were impersonating as military men
with Uniforms on. The latest news indicated; that
the perpetrators are known, and they will be brought
to Justice for this abhorrent crime against humanity
as soon as they're caught from their hidings nearby.
Steve Tataii is a prolific Kurdish author of
several recent books related to Iraq War, Kurds and
Kurdistan in English. He's the President, and
founder of K.U.R.D.S. NGO since 1991, founded to
help refugees passing through the pacific. He was
also a 2006 U.S. Senator candidate, and the seat for
U.S. House in the 2002 contested elections.Tataii
has lived in Hawaii since 1976, and has obtained his
degrees in Political Science, and Math from UH Manoa.
He has written, and lectured extensively about the
Kurds, their history, and contemporary Kurdish
Political situation since 1920s' unjust partition of
Kurdistan by colonial powers, leading to many wars
for independence, and creating the today's Iraq War
dilemma.
www.tataiiforcongress.com
* Steve Tataii is the author of several books on
Kurds, and Kurdistan in English. He was also the
recent U.S. Senator Candidate in the 2006 elections.
Exclusively for eKURD.NET. You may reach the author via
email at: tataii2003congress(at)msn.com
* North Kurdistan (Turkey-Kurdistan), South
Kurdistan (Iraq-Kurdistan)
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