Assyrian Democratic Organization ADO
1. Yonnadam Kanna, is an Assyrian Christian who heads the Assyrian Democratic Movement. An engineer by profession, Kana served as an official for the transport ministry in the first Kurdish regional assembly and then as a trade minister in the regional government established in Arbil in northern Iraq.2. Sangul Shapuk, is a Turkman …
Read More »Fear among the Christian community in Iraq (16/02/2004)
Prague, 13 February 2004 (RFE/RL) — It has been a deadly week in Iraq. Two separate suicide bombings have left some 80 people dead and many more wounded. It is a situation that has reduced nearly every Iraqi to living in fear. The attacks do not appear to discriminate between …
Read More »Paul D. Wolfowitz: Women’s hopes in a new Iraq (16/02/2004)
A predominantly Shiite town known as the site of one of Iraq’s largest mass graves, where as many as 15,000 may have been killed, Hillah is also the location of something very hopeful: the Al Hillah Women’s Center, a center to advance the cause of women’s rights. The women I …
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Read More »ONE MAN, ONE VOTE IS DEMOCRACY, ALL ELSE, IS A MISCONCEPTION (03/02/2004)
The other part of the citizenry-the farmers and related rural-based business concerns–slowly but surely, is receding proportionately, and adding to an already keenly developed field of service-oriented employment. This cadre of citizens that dwelt in the fertile–and not so fertile valleys, where they sweated out their life-long years to cultivate …
Read More »For Iraqis, it must be ‘nation first’ (02/02/2004)
For that reason, the ethnic and sectarian taxonomy forced itself on the political arena in Iraq. It stage-managed the Iraqi domestic front, giving rise to many surprises, which were not expected by anyone, whether the coalition forces or the neighbouring countries, or even those interested in Iraq’s domestic affairs. Starting …
Read More »Outside View: Ice Cream in Baghdad (02/02/2004)
Here, things are booming — in a good sense. The TV monitors blare Egyptian music videos while a line develops at the counter for the house favorite — huge ice cream sundaes. Ice cream in Baghdad? The news from Baghdad and Iraq is usually about bombing, terror and bad things …
Read More »Wolfowitz Views ‘New Iraq’ in the Making (03/02/2004)
The city has incredible wealth in oil nearby. It has an educated work force. It has water. It also has grinding poverty, an infrastructure in need of serious repair and a population scarred by 35 years of dictatorship. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz met with members of the city council …
Read More »IRAQ: ASSYRIANS AND A FEDERATION FOR IRAQ (31/01/2004)
The civilian administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, announced however that the U.S. would agree on establishing federalism in Iraq, but based on geographic and not demographic, ethnic partition, although he would be happy for the Kurds to control the northern regions with the exception of Kirkuk. (“Washington And The Kurds.” …
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