Rabar Khdir Omer – Activists
The events unfolding in the Kurdistan Region for its citizens, particularly for those who still hold even a fragment of national sentiment and patriotic conscience, constitute a tragedy so grave and morally harrowing that recounting the incidents or witnessing the images evokes profound shock. For the ruling authorities, however, such calamities have become so normalized and politically instrumentalized that they no longer carry even the slightest sense of shame, nor do they elicit any moral hesitation. They are treated as part of a daily routine of governance.
It is evident that the current authority, in the twenty-first century and at a time when humanity has reached levels of technological and intellectual advancement unimaginable in earlier eras, remains deeply entrenched in archaic notions of tribalism and kinship politics. It devotes its entire power and resources solely to self-preservation, the systematic elimination of rivals, consolidation of absolute control, and the eradication of any opposing voices. Consequently, no atrocity, regardless of its magnitude, is deemed extraordinary for this regime; indeed, whenever its authority feels threatened, it manufactures crises and orchestrates violence beyond what reason can fathom.
Historically, this political order has been marked by fratricide, betrayal, land-selling, and internal bloodletting. Today, it reproduces its dark legacy with even greater ferocity, perpetuating deeper corruption, fostering wider divisions, and inscribing new chapters of brutality and authoritarianism into the collective memory of society.
It is within this context that brothers and cousins are pitted against one another, coerced into conflict, so the ruling elites may declare to all: even those with the highest political, military, or social standing among you, even those with immense popular legitimacy—once they pose a challenge to our power, they too will be crushed like any enemy. If this is the fate reserved for our own kin, what mercy could be expected for outsiders, critics, or dissidents?
Thus, so long as the Kurdish individual accepts humiliation, oppression, and injustice; so long as society tolerates the betrayal of its language, blood, and dignity by its own self-proclaimed leaders; so long as the populace remains complicit in its own subjugation, refraining from demanding justice, freedom, and accountability—fratricide, filicide, and the systematic dismantling of family and societal structures will not merely remain political tactics of survival. They will become cultural norms, stripped of their moral gravity, absorbed into the collective psyche as ordinary, unremarkable realities of daily life.
About the Author
