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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 9:46 PM
Flourishment and Shelter in Kurdistan
By: Aryan
In a response to a post created by anonymous about Corruption in Kurdistan, here is a personal view from a Kurdish view.
I as a Kurdistani national, I lived in Kurdistan when almost 4,000
villages were destroyed by the baathist regime and when travelling
between two close small towns in Kurdistan would takes sometimes 6
hours, which now could very easily be done in less than two hours, I
lived in Kurdistan when entire tourist locations were reserved for
Saddam and his Arab party members in the nice breezy summer days. I
lived in Kurdistan when Kurdistan had no budget, etc...
After many years away from Kurdistan, I had the opportunity to go
back last year and spend one entire year in Kurdistan. Fortunately,
living a year in Kurdsitan meant dealing with Government office, with
hospitals, with roads, and with people, more like a personal research.
I think that Kurdistan has advanced light years compared to the
advances we were experiencing when Kurdistan was occupied by the Iraqi
government.
Newly paved roads have made traveling in Kurdistan from Zaxo to
Hevler possible in half the time it used to take just few years ago.
There are school buildings in every little corner of cities and
villages, there are new hospitals and new projects in every city. New
Universities have opened in many small towns, technical schools are
now available for students of every small town.
There are mosques and churches everywhere, multi language schools
in Turkmeni, Assyrian are everywhere, even Arabic schools are being
oppened to accommodate the Arab refuges from Arab cities of Arab who
have fled the terror and war of Iraq. Kurdistan is the safe haven of
all Iraqis, not just Iraqi but also Kurds from Northern, Easter and
Western Kurdistan who have come to Kurdistan in search of jobs that
they can't find in the other occupying parts of Kurdistan.
There are new consulates opening doors each day, countries like
UK, France, Czech Republic and many more in Hevler, Kurdistan and
Kurdish people have built great relationship with foreign countires ,
Kurdish students are applying for post graduate studies in all
countries from Korea to America, there are even talk about exchange
programs for foeign students. If Kurdistan did not provide the safety
and advancement, then such programs would not be in progress in
Kurdistan.
The current budget allocated to Kurdistan is small for
a region that was being destroyed for decades. It takes billions of
dollars to establish an infrastructure that would be comparable to
places where writers of this article try to compare Kurdistan to or the
anonymous person that posted this article. It takes double that budget
to run few cities in a small state in America with such budget, and
hopefully Iraqi central government will realize that 7% of total iraqi
government budget is not enough for this region that is not only trying
to rebuild after decades of destruction, but even more because it is
now accommodating much more than 7% of iraqi population with all the
refugees from Other parts of Iraq fleeing violence from Iraq to go to
Kurdistan.
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