Sunday, July 26, 2009

Kurdish voters rebel against corrupt elite


As the Iraqi region goes to the polls, many are blaming the growth in inequality on an entrenched political establishment.

By Patrick Cockburn

"........The ruling elite in Kurdistan is probably too well dug in to be dislodged. There is also a possibility that, if the reformers of Goran feel they have been robbed by a fixed poll, they will take to the streets in protest, as in Iran. What is happening here in Iraqi Kurdistan today may be a precedent for the rest of Iraq, where the government is far worse and where many Iraqis believe their oil money is being systematically looted to line the pockets of a semi-criminal ruling caste that replaced Saddam Hussein."

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