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| Iraqi Kurds To Hold Independence Referendum In September 2017 by ragiluhivo(m): 7:01am On Jun 09, 2017 |
 Top government officials and political parties in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region have agreed to hold a referendum on independence on 25 September. The date was set at a meeting in Irbil chaired by President Massoud Barzani. A statement said voting would take place in the three provinces that make up the region, and "areas of Kurdistan outside the region's administration". There was no immediate comment from Iraq's central government, but it has urged Kurds not to hold a referendum. Moves towards outright independence have historically been opposed by the governments of neighbouring Iran, Turkey and Syria, as well as by the US.  In April, senior Kurdish official Hoshyar Zebari told Reuters news agency that a "yes" vote would not necessarily mean independence would be declared. Mr Zebari said it would merely help Kurds press their case for "the best deal" on self-determination once so-called Islamic State (IS) had been defeated in Iraq. Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have played a major role in the US-backed campaign against the jihadist group, which seized large parts of northern Iraq in 2014. But while driving IS militants out of the country, the Peshmerga have taken control of disputed territory claimed by both Kurds and the central government. It includes the city of Kirkuk and the towns of Makhmour, Khanaqin and Sinjar - locations where President Barzani's senior assistant Hemin Hawrami declared voting would take place in September.  Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said holding an independence referendum now would be neither in the Kurdistan Region's interest nor Iraq's. "The desire of our Kurdish brothers to create a country of their own is their right... and nobody has the right to deter them," he was quoted as saying by the Kurdish Rudaw news agency in April. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40191713 |
| Re: Iraqi Kurds To Hold Independence Referendum In September 2017 by patrick89(m): 7:23am On Jun 09, 2017 |
I'd be happiest man on earth of this scale through, and means Biafra referendom |
| Re: Iraqi Kurds To Hold Independence Referendum In September 2017 by sanandreas(m): 7:37am On Jun 09, 2017 |
Same should happen in Nigeria |
| Re: Iraqi Kurds To Hold Independence Referendum In September 2017 by kanayoNickel: 7:45am On Jun 09, 2017 |
Plz o, let this be SUCCESSFUL. Y'all know what this means. |
| Re: Iraqi Kurds To Hold Independence Referendum In September 2017 by EnuguDadImoMom: 8:29am On Jun 09, 2017 |
..."The desire of our Kurdish brothers to create a country of their own is their right... and nobody has the right to deter them," he was quoted as saying by the Kurdish Rudaw news agency in April.[/b] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40191713[/quote] This part got me. If its a certain country and President now, na so so threat and threats we go dey hear. Biafra is a must. |
| Re: Iraqi Kurds To Hold Independence Referendum In September 2017 by TSOM(m): 8:33am On Jun 09, 2017 |
kanayoNickel:The Biafran and Kurdish agitations are nearly at parallels. While Kurds are a defined people, the Igbos keep trying to foist the Biafran tag on Ibibios, Annangs, Ijaws, Ikwerres, Urhobos and other tribes in the South South region. We do not want a part of your Biafra. Have it all to yourselves. The Kurdish people have recognized leaders, 'Biafra' doesn't - only opportunists like the eventual leaders of the war-torn South Sudan. By the way, I am unrepentantly Ibibio, so if you try the cliched 'Afonja!' slur as a retort as against countering my assertions, I'd hound you with the most scathing invectives.  2 Likes |
| Re: Iraqi Kurds To Hold Independence Referendum In September 2017 by chijiblaze(m): 7:17am On Jun 10, 2017 |
TSOM: You don't know what you're saying. Kurdistan is made up of loosely related tribes who speak different but related languages and surely identify themselves as neither Arab nor Turk nor Persian. From the map you can see different tribes of the Kurdish people:- Kurmanji, Sorani, Gorani, Zazaki, et.al.
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| Re: Iraqi Kurds To Hold Independence Referendum In September 2017 by TSOM(m): 11:06am On Jun 10, 2017 |
chijiblaze:Hogwash! The Igbos (Biafrans) are a mixture of people of closely-related but noticeable ethnic subleties, different ethnicities like the Kurds. The Abakalikis, Awaras, Ngwas , Aniomas and the likes are ethnic groups of various dialects and cultures who who converge under the umbrella 'Igbos'. Same with the Aworis, Egbas, Eguns and the likes who converge under the umbrella 'Yorubas'. What do Ibibios, Annangs, Efiks, Itshekiris and Ijaws have in common with Igbos? See your folly? Steer your Biafran ship yourselves. We'd chart our course across this sea of uncertainty ourselves and in our time too! Bon voyage , Captain. |
| Re: Iraqi Kurds To Hold Independence Referendum In September 2017 by chijiblaze(m): 3:22pm On Jun 10, 2017 |
TSOM: Only a "Biafrexit" referendum shall decide! What are you scared of? |
| Re: Iraqi Kurds To Hold Independence Referendum In September 2017 by TSOM(m): 3:31pm On Jun 10, 2017 |
chijiblaze:Nothing. As long as the exit clause is limited to Igbos and the supposed 'Igboid' groups. Leave the bulk of the South South to decide its fate - our fate. You can't captain our ship. |
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