Kurdistan Bloggers Union

Hello ladies & gentlemen, here is my first post in KBU, I thank Dilnareen, Hiwa and Kurdo for my nomination, I thank my scenarist, my manager, my mom and dad... (hush, not this one).

Well this first post will be just a way to get in touch with my new readers (and to accustom them to my rotten frenchie's english language), and to give a general view of French point of view (not mine, please) about the last events in Iraq. I won't talk a lot about France or Europe, but in the blogopshere much people seem to be American citizens and it was just for showing that people in Europe are so ignorant of Middle-East issue as in America, no need to be jealous...

Concerning France, precisely, the public opinion get worried about our French hostages. Or at least, French media are disturbed because two confrères have been taken like hostages, and they present it as a national drama and say that people are worried a lot. Journalists mix often their own preoccupations with the street's one. I could hear this week on radio : "USA might realize that they let the power to an Iraqi government which was not still ready for it". Well I roared with laugher... because I remembered, last May, last June, all that pressure, that insistance, a real campaign in fact, making by our politicians and our media (and Kofi Annam too if I don't mistake). The leitmotiv at this time was : US should leave Iraq, they should let the power to Iraqis, only to Iraqis, and let them ruling by themselves... But now that 2 (only 2) French journalists are in trouble, our public opinion makers are ready to accuse US for their laxism, hum... Well, perhaps after 20 French hostages, they will claim for another American occupation in Iraq...

Some huge demonstrations have been organized in Paris, calling to their liberation (I wonder how they believe that Islamist killers would be impressed by that : "Oh... thousands of French people made a walk in Paris and tell that we are bad guys, sorry... we release our hostages immediately"). Some Muslim associations or institutions should state that they condem such actions, (so that's a relief ! our own Muslims won't rapt us between Republique and Bastille), but as the President of a French Muslim representation kissed a Hezbollahi imam in Lebanon, there is a polemic now, and French muslims call each other every name under the sun... Muslim or not, they are French, you know, and we adore internal polemics and slanging match...

And Kurdistan in that play ? Well, indeed, a very few people in France know where is Kurdistan on a map. And nobody talk about Kurds in media. Quite surprising, because at least, the Kurdish area is safer for Western journalists than Iraq. But Kurds seem to have disappear in our media... for many reasons I think. Firstly, in Kurdistan, if we compare to the South, life is not bad, and if we except Kirkuk, it is desperately quiet and still... and the official position of journalists is that Iraq is a chaos, since the falling of Saddam. An absolute chaos. Hardly better than under Saddam. Then Kurdistan is not so chaotic enough to be shown. The another problem is our guilty conscience because of the Kurdish genocide. Not because our governemnts had strongly and constantly supported Baathists until the end (in our democracies, simple citizens have in reality nothing to decide concerning Foreign policy), but because the anti-war attitude was in a large majority, and Bush is often presented as so bad as Saddam, etc., but mass graves of Kurds or Shiits are quite embarrassing... so Kurds hardly exist in Iraq.

In France, Kurds exist only in Turkey, as a way to refuse Turkish membership in UE.