Tribune. From the Polish border to the English Channel, the influx of migrants from Iraqi Kurdistan to Europe is indicative of the deep inequalities from which their home society suffers.
The current crisis is one of the effects of the gulf that has existed for decades between the Kurdish ruling families and the majority of the population, a cleavage so unbearable that the people of Kurdistan, its students, its young people, have no other choice than to flee the country or to rise up against the political dynasties in place.
Corruption and injustice
On the flip side of the exodus of some, we find the revolt of others, underway in several cities of Iraqi Kurdistan where student demonstrations have been repressed by the authorities since the end of November.
The national dreams of the Kurdish people, for which France actively worked during the exodus and the Kurdish uprising of 1991, were stolen by the Barzani and Talabani dynasties, still in power thirty years later. Many factors no doubt explain why the Iraqi Kurds are fleeing their country today. However, they have as a common denominator the corruption and injustice that these two families cause in the region.
The Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister constantly praises his reforms. How could we speak of reforms when the Kurdistan region does not even have a finance law? Masrour Barzani is content to allocate funds to different projects as he pleases, without consulting parliament or even his ministers. Its decisions are arbitrary and are often pure propaganda intended for social networks.
As early as 2020, two committees of the Parliament of Kurdistan had started to look into the increase in the number of candidates leaving for Europe among young people and Kurdish families from Iraq. The leaders of Iraqi Kurdistan were aware of the problem before the crisis reached the present stage. But the Barzani government has done nothing to curb this phenomenon.
Barzani and Talabani tear each other apart
The present situation now gives those in power the opportunity to blame their political opponents and once again ask the international community to step up their sleeves in their place to solve problems of which they themselves are the cause.
While the current Kurdish migration crisis on the border between Poland and Belarus was making the headlines of the international press, a social movement, especially among students, was set in motion in Kurdistan. The two phenomena go hand in hand. They constitute the same cry of alarm addressed to the Kurdish leaders.
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