Hiwa Jamil _ Activists
Ari Masrour Barzani, the son of the Prime Minister.
Idris Nechirvan Barzani, the son of the President of the Kurdistan Region.
Each of them owns numerous media outlets and organizations that burn through millions of dollars monthly—mainly to attack each other and put on a show to boost their own images.
Despite the worsening living conditions of the Kurdish people and the chronic salary crisis, not a single one of their institutions has gone a day without receiving their full payments.
Worse still, whenever one of them performs an act of so-called “charity,” they make sure it’s widely broadcast—turning the hunger of the people into a stage for self-promotion. And somehow, many of those same people, whose livelihoods and salaries have been stolen, still offer them praise and gratitude for these performative gestures.
This is the brutal irony of our reality:
While civil servants and ordinary citizens go months without pay, the ruling elite and their inner circle thrive without interruption.
The wealth of Kurdistan does not trickle down—it is hoarded and used as a personal fund for political survival, propaganda, and spectacle.
