Labour and Greeens insult oppressed minorites

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Sunday March 23, 2003 19:22

by Kalid Farouk

Labour and Greeens insult oppressed minorites in neo colonial world by not voting for resolution calling for self determination for the Kurdish people.

I think it shoud also be registered that the Green Party and Labour did not vote for an amendment to a resolution in the Dáil last week that called for self determination for the Kurdish people.

They claimed that they wished to see the 'territorial integrity' of Iraq to continue. Iraq is a state whose borders, like most states in the middle east, were arbitarilly drawn up to suit the imperial interests of the major powers in the 19th century. To call for the retention of these boundaries is a disgrace and an insult to the Kurdish people and the oppressed minorities in Iraq and the middle east. The amendment was defeated.