ஈராக்கில் குர்து முஸ்லீம் கட்சி அலுவலகத்தில் அரபு சுன்னி முஸ்லீம்கள் தாக்குதல் 50 பேர் பலி

ஈராக்கின் வடக்கே குர்து முஸ்லீம்கள் பெரும்பான்மையாக இருக்கிறார்கள். இவர்கள் அரபு முஸ்லீம்கள் அல்ல. ஆனால் சுன்னி முஸ்லீம்கள்.
ஈராக்கில் முன்பு ஆட்சியிலிருந்த சதாம் உசேன் அரபு சுன்னி முஸ்லீம். குர்து இனத்தவரை அடக்குமுறைக்குள்ளாக்கி ஆண்டுவந்தார்.
குர்து இனத்தவர் மீது தற்போது அரபு சுன்னி முஸ்லீம்கள் தொடர்ந்து தாக்குதல் நடத்தி வருகிறார்கள்.

மே 14ஆம் தேதி அரபு சுன்னி முஸ்லீம்கள் குர்து அரசியல் கட்சி அலுவலகத்தை தாக்கியதில் 50 மக்கள் கொலையுண்டார்கள். நூற்றுக்கணக்கான மக்கள் படுகாயமடைந்தார்கள்.


நன்றி ஷாங்ஹாய் டெய்லி
Suicide truck bomb kills 50 at Kurdish political office
2007-5-14

A SUICIDE truck bomber crashed into the offices of a Kurdish political party yesterday, killing at least 50 people and wounding scores, including a mayor, officials said. It was the second suicide attack in Kurdish areas of northern Iraq in four days.

A parked car bomb also exploded near a market in central Baghdad on yesterday, killing at least 17 Iraqis, wounding 46 and damaging shops, police said.

Meanwhile, an al-Qaida front group said yesterday that it had captured several American soldiers in the attack a day earlier south of Baghdad that killed five and left three missing.

The United States said 4,000 troops were searching the farming area south of the capital for any sign of the three missing American soldiers.

In a statement posted on an Islamic Website, the Islamic State of Iraq, claimed responsibility for the attack in Mahmoudiya on Saturday and said it held an unspecified number of US soldiers. The group offered no proof to back up its claim but promised more details later.

US President George W. Bush was getting regular updates on the missing soldiers, Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council, said in Washington.

The 10:30am suicide truck bomb attack in Makhmur, 50 kilometers south of Irbil, badly damaged the office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Massoud Barzani, leader of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. Makhmur is just south of the autonomous Kurdish-controlled areas, but it has a substantial Kurdish population.

The blast also killed the police chief and damaged the mayor's office, officials said.

Ziryan Othman, the health minister of the Kurdish regional government, said at least 50 people were killed and 115 were wounded, including the city's mayor, Abdul Rahman Delaf, who also is a prominent Kurdish writer, and the director of the KDP office.

Cars were charred and crushed by the blast, with some flipped over. The tires of one appeared to have been incinerated by the blast. Most of the small KDP building appeared to have been destroyed, reduced to a pile of bricks. Other buildings had walls blown out.

A group of people hurriedly pulled what appeared to be a dead body out of a demolished car.

Herish Karim, a 42-year-old Kurdish taxi driver, said he was parking his car in the area when the "thunderous" explosion occurred, setting the KDP building on fire, shattering the windows of his car and injuring his chest.

Many of the 115 wounded were brought to the hospital in Irbil. Wounded men with bandages on their heads and arms wandered the halls, while doctors worked on a patient.

வன்முறை வாழ்க்கையல்ல. வன்முறை போதிக்கும் மார்க்கத்தில் இல்லாமல் இவர்கள் வெளியேறவேண்டும்.