Steve Tataii
This is the last of the Three book series from Steve Tataii’s Liberation of Iraq War memoirs, focusing on the Independent South Kurdistan news developments, which has been his ongoing contribution with spontaneous, critical and emotional writings in defense of the rights of over 5-7 million Kurds of South Kurdistan [the North of the defunct Iraq] in the past 3 years. He has written his responses in a decisive, intense, and prolific style as the events unfold and seen in the most recent, and fresh News developments in his contributing articles published throughout the world for News Websites such as www.KurdistanObserver.com , www.Klawrojna.com , www.eKurd.net, www.Kurdishmedia.com , and many others, including print media.
On May, 22, 2004, Tataii nominated Mr. Talabani to become the president of “Arabistan” [South of Kurdish region], and President Massoud Barzani as the president of the Independent South Kurdistan in his famous article published in this book.
In his DEC 5, 2003 article Tataii called for Iraq to choose its original form of nationhood the way it used to be before 1920s; one state for Kurds in the North, and the other for Arabs in the South as you’ll read in this book under the title:
“The best solution is to divide Iraq into two Nations based on ethnicity: The Republic of South Kurdistan, and the Republic of Arabistan.”
Steve Tataii is a prolific writer, who has been writing about the Liberation of Kurds since 1976, and his most intense writing began right before the start of the Iraq Liberation war on August 2002, when he was interviewed by Kurdish Media about his stance on Kurdish freedom and Independence particularly in South Kurdistan [North of the Liberated Iraq], and while campaigning for a seat in U.S. Congress as a grassroots candidate. This interview was published in BOOK ONE. He has two degrees from the University of Hawaii in Mathematics and Political Science. He speaks six languages, four of which are from the region, and has gifted Conflict Resolution skills on macro and micro levels. He has done extensive educational work as a lecturer on recent Kurdish political history. He has been writing his own speeches and articles both in Hawaii, a few other states, and also on his visit to Europe in 1989. The news of the “GAP” DAM project by Turkey, discovered from that 1989 trip, was most vital to the survival of the Kurds in their valleys with thousands of Kurdish villages. On his return home in Hawaii, he authored two of many resolutions, which called to put a moratorium on Turkey’s attempt to build more than 20 DAMS in North Kurdistan, South East of Turkey, at the “WILD” conference of the indigenous peoples held at the University of Hawaii. The DAMS would have uprooted more than 5 thousands villages with over 6 million Kurds inhabiting them for thousands of years, and would have destroyed thousands of native endangered species found no where else. A Kurd from both Kurdish parents himself, he has firmly believed; that the best solution to Kurdish people’s stateless dilemma, aside an already Independent South Kurdistan, for the other three parts, will be through peaceful political negotiations and political solutions.
Kirkuk, Federalism-Independence, Kurdish national oil, and Peshmarga.
eKurd.net
Aug 14, 2005
By: Steve Tataii
Kirkuk, Federalism-Independence, Kurdish national oil, and Peshmarga.
My final crucial article before the Con-Con’s Aug 15, 2005 deadline or onward
1- Kirkuk and all of its surrounding sub-divisions are, have been, and must always remain to be recognized as a part of South Kurdistan’s territory and this must be recognized as a permanent clause in the Iraq’s Constitution''s draft.
2- The right to Self-Determination, and to declare an Official Kurdish state in the near future by Kurdish Parliament and President of Kurdistan is not negotiable, and must be added as a permanent clause in the Iraq’s Constitution''s draft.
3- Pehsmarga is, has been, and always will remain to be the Kurdish national defense army without being forced to join Arab military units, and this must be noted as a permanent clause in the Iraq’s Constitution''s draft.
4- The Kurdish oil revenues from Kirkuk and other Kurdish territories belong to Kurds, and must be administered by Kurdish nation through its sovereign Kurdish regional or Independent Kurdish State''s government. This must be added as a permanent Clause in the Iraq’s Constitution''s draft.
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KurdistanObserver.com
An open letter to President George W. Bush
Mar 18, 2004
By: Steve Tataii
The Honorable George W. Bush, United States President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
Dozens of Kurds, many of them children, have been killed; scores of others injured and left bleeding to death. The Syrian army has surrounded Kurdish cities and towns with tanks, imposed curfews, and taken hundreds of Kurds to infamous Syrian prisons. Many people are missing.
As a proud American citizen and a passionate supporter of your vision to turn the Middle East into a free, democratic, peaceful and safe part of the world, I would like to draw your attention to a serious danger of genocide against the Kurdish people in Syria by the brutal Baathist dictatorship that has violently denied the identity and basic human rights of the Kurdish minority.
The Damascus regime has so far suppressed the Kurds peaceful efforts for reforms, and jailed, tortured, exiled and killed Kurdish activists. After braving decades of oppression in the name of stability at the expense of liberty, the Syrian Kurds have wholeheartedly embraced your call for democracy and freedom in much the same way as their cousins in Iraqi Kurdistan, who have proven to be a key ally by functioning as the northern front with American warriors in the liberation of Iraq.
In fact, as a result of that support for the liberation of Iraq by the leader of the free world, the Syrian Kurds have become more of a target for the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship that, through its alliances with terrorists and the anti-American Iraqi Baathists, remains a major obstacle before human rights, democracy, liberty and peace in the Middle East.
The officially sanctioned hatred towards the Kurds turned violent during a soccer match in the Kurdish town of Qamishli on Friday, March 12, 2004. Disguised as the supporters of the visiting team, Baathist thugs, who reportedly were armed with knives and weapons and backed by the so-called security forces, first voiced support for war criminal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and chanted anti-American and anti-Kurdish slogans. The mob, then, attacked the peaceful Kurdish soccer fans of the home team.
The subsequent melee has sparked a communal punishment of the Kurdish people, spreading throughout the Kurdish regions in Syria. Dozens of Kurds, many of them children, have been killed; scores of others injured and left bleeding to death. The Syrian army has surrounded Kurdish cities and towns with tanks, imposed curfews, and taken hundreds of Kurds to infamous Syrian prisons. Many people are missing.
The two-million-plus Syrian Kurds need aid from the United States, which, as you have stated, is committed to helping the oppressed and to championing freedom, democracy and human rights around the world. As the world's largest ethnic group without a state, the long-oppressed Kurds deserve support in their struggle for social, political and cultural rights in Syria as well as Iraq, Iran and Turkey if not a state of their own.
The international community must help immediately stop the violence against the Kurdish nation in Syria, and I would like to see our government lead such efforts. The Syrian state should be held accountable at international forums, including the United Nations, be asked to withdraw its criminal military from Kurdish towns and to allow international medical teams into the country to treat the wounded. The United States should invite Kurdish representatives to discuss further steps in assuring the safety and welfare of the Kurds while leading calls for an independent international investigation.
The recognition of the Kurds as a minority with constitutionally guaranteed political, social and cultural rights in Syria should become one of our objectives in dealing with Damascus and an integral part of your administration's Syrian Accountability Act.
I will be available for further discussion and to elaborate further in Washington, DC area for a few more days. I have traveled all the way from Honolulu to be here in the memory of the Chemical attack against Kurds in Halabja on March 16, 1988 and "Noroz" (the Kurdish New Year). Please feel free to call upon me by phone or email, to discuss this vital matter and set new goals to Free the Kurdish nation, and hopefully declare an Independent South Kurdistan on July 1, 2, or 3, 2004. The longer we delay the more Kurds from West, North, and East Kurdistan will die. Our ultimate sacrifices must not go in vain.
With my best regards,
Respectfully submitted,
Steve Tataii, U.S. Representative Candidate in the 2002 elections
