Move against Nouri al-Maliki deepens Iraq crisis

Move against Nouri al-Maliki deepens Iraq crisis
By Borzou Daragahi in Cairo and Erika Solomon in Beirut and Richard McGregor in WashingtonAuthor alerts
Last updated: August 11, 2014 10:43 pm

The exclusion of Mr Maliki was endorsed by Washington, with Barack Obama interrupting his holidays to deliver a statement in support of the “constitutional process” under way in Baghdad.
The Obama administration has long wanted to get rid of Mr Maliki, after giving up hope that he could be persuaded to run a less sectarian government which excludes the Sunni minority.
Mr Obama called the choice of a new prime minister “a promising step forward in forming a new government which can unite different communities.”

The power struggle in Baghdad highlights deep disagreements within the country’s Shia political and religious establishment over the fate of Mr Maliki, who has insisted on retaining the premiership despite widespread opposition. Sunni, Kurdish and rival Shia blocs blame Mr Maliki for the sectarian and ethnic divisions that paved the way for a two month offensive by militants fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as Isis.
A ceremony to endorse Mr Maliki’s replacement was attended by the Sunni Speaker of parliament and leading Shia politicians in a sign of cross-sectarian support for his replacement. It was also broadcast on state television – long seen as under the control of Mr Maliki.

Mr Maliki immediately challenged the attempt to unseat him, issuing a letter rejecting the authority of the National Alliance grouping in parliament, which includes dozens of defecting members of his own bloc.
It remains unclear whether Mr Maliki will remain in his post while Mr Abadi tries to form a government, although there were fears that he could use force to retain the premiership amid reports of a bolstered security presence on the streets of Baghdad. Mr Maliki has consolidated his control over the security services during his eight years in power.

“Next few hours are going to make or break Iraq,” the Iraqi scholar Haydar al-Khoei wrote on Twitter. “Maliki’s reaction to the Shia bloc’s move against him will be key. He can go now or burn Iraq.”
The UN envoy to Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, also endorsed Mr Abadi’s designation. “All groups in parliament should co-operate to swiftly form an inclusive government,” he said in a message posted to social media.

The political struggle unfolded as the US confirmed that it had agreed to give direct military aid to Kurdish forces, or peshmerga, who are also locked in battle with Isis. The militants have seized a third of the country and surprised and shocked many when they over-ran areas under the control of the peshmerga, who had been considered a tougher proposition than government forces.
However, Washington played down the impact of US air strikes on Isis. General William Mayville said in a briefing at the Pentagon that the strikes had slowed the momentum of Isis but had not contained them or affected their overall capabilities.

Backed by US air strikes, Kurdish fighters retook from Isis the towns of Gwer and Makhmour southwest of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. But Isis still controls the Mosul dam and has pushed the peshmerga out of the strategic town of Jalawla in Diyala province, north of Baghdad.

Mr Abadi, 62, is a British-educated engineer and a Dawa party stalwart who is often described as relatively moderate and low-key. He served as communications minister in the shortlived US-appointed government of Iyad Allawi in 2004. Mr Abadi’s appointment came hours after an Iraqi court appeared to support Mr Maliki’s effort to halt Mr Masoum from naming any other candidate as premier.

However, later on Monday the Iraqi army’s official Twitter page posted a statement saying: “We are the army of Iraq and not of Maliki.”

Mr Maliki’s coalition won the most seats in April 30 elections but the larger National Alliance of Shia groupings that coalesced after the vote insists that it must be given the first shot at forming a government.
Members of Mr Maliki’s State of Law coalition – and the Dawa party around which it is built – appear to have abandoned him. The defections gathered pace after a widely reported July 25 statement attributed to the country’s senior Shia cleric, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, urging politicians not to cling to power.

“This was a game changer, especially after Maliki’s own Dawa party then issued a statement echoing Sistani’s words,” said Mr Khoei, the scion of a famous Shia clerical family.

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 பௌத்த பிக்குகளை கட்டுப்படுத்தும் சட்ட அதிகாரம் எவருக்கும் கிடையாது என ஜாதிக ஹெல உறுமய கட்சியின் முன்னாள் தலைவர் எல்லாவல மேதானந்த தேரர் தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

 பௌத்த பிக்கு ஒருவர் ஒழுக்க விதிகளுக்கு முரணான வகையில் செயற்பட்டால் அவரை மாநாயக்க தேரர்கள் கட்டுப்படுத்த முடியும் எனவும், அவ்வாறு மாநாயக்க தேரர்களின் அறிவுரையை பௌத்த பிக்கு செவிசாய்க்கத் தவறினால் செய்வதற்கு எதுவுமில்லை என அவர் சுட்டிக்காட்யுள்ளார்.

 எனினும் ஒரு சில பௌத்த பிக்குகளின் நடவடிக்கைகள் ஒட்டுமொத்த பௌத்த பிக்கு சமுதாயத்தையுமே பாதிக்கும். வரலாற்று காலம் முதல் தேசத்தின் சுய மரியாதையை உறுதி செய்ய பௌத்த பிக்குகள் அர்ப்பணிப்புடன் செயற்பட்டுள்ளதாகவும் கூறினார். பயங்கரவாத இல்லாதொழிப்பிற்கு பௌத்த பிக்குகள் முக்கிய பங்களிப்பினை வழங்கியுள்ளனர்.

 இதேவேளை பயங்கரவாதம் இல்லாதொழிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள நிலையிலும் தொடர்ச்சியாக நாட்டுக்கு எதிரான சதித்திட்டங்கள் முன்னெடுக்கப்பட்டு வருவதாக சுட்டிக்காட்டினார்.

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The full text of.Mannar Bishop Rayappu Joseph’s letter

The full text of  Rayappu Joseph’s letter follows:

The Chairman and Commissioners, Presidential Commission on Missing Persons.

Dear Commissioners,

Submission Regarding My position with regard to appearing before the above Commission in Mannar

Mannaar Bishop's position on appearing before PCMP
I am thankful for your very kind visit to me and for your personal invitation to testify before the commission during it's sittings to be held in Mannar between the 8th and 11th of August 2014.

I am writing to inform you that having considered the following I have decided not to make representations before your commission. I have over the years grown to be weary of domestic mechanisms in resolving serious injustices that Tamil people have faced over the period of the war, prior to it and after it's conclusion. Over the years many commissions such as yours have been set up and there is absolutely no shred of evidence that they have tackled impunity. Most, if not all of these commissions have provided only to be eye washers for the then Governments in power. As Ms. Navaneetham Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights noted in her report to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2014, the problem in Sri Lanka is one of lack of political will to end impunity. Despite knowing this acutely for many years now, I personally appeared before the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission and gave evidence. The Government has not acted seriously on any of the issues on which the Tamil people including myself gave evidence. Given this experience I find it impossible to draw myself to appear before your commission. May I add this that the Commission's name itself - "Commission on Missing Persons"- appears to me to indicate a denial on the part of those who created this commission that the issue is one relating to enforced disappearances and not merely about 'missing persons'.

I am aware that many Tamils, throughout the North and East who have lost their kith and kin have come before your commission and narrated their grievances. The only reason why they come before the commission is not because they believe that your commission will help locate their loved ones, but because they have nothing to lose in doing so. Hence they go and air their grievances wherever they can, whilst well knowing that no consequences are likely to follow. This is the terrible plight of the Tamil people in this country. I have also been informed that the Commision in its various sittings in the North and East, unfortunately, has been more interested in knowing about their economic well-being, rather than engaging in a serious effort at locating the disappeared. There are also credible reports that the Government has launched a programme to encourage families of the disappeared to obtain death certificates, which has been happening parallel to your commission's sittings throughout the North and East. I am also concerned that the recent expansion of your mandate and the appointment of international experts to oversee the work of the commission without any clear terms of reference has been deliberately done to undermine the work of the UN OHCHR's inquiry into Sri Lanka which commenced recently. Without serious commitment to truth and justice there can never be Reconciliation and Peace will ever remain a mirage.

Please permit me to present to you my last submission with my covering letter sent to His Excellency the President on his own invitation sent through His Eminence Malcom Cardinal Ranjit, Archbishop of Colombo. This was made on the 21st, August, 2012. It explains 14 grievances with my expectations spelt out in the form of suggestions.

Consequent to this, two meetings were held with me regarding this matter by the Hon Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr G.L Pieris and the President's Secretary Mr Lalith Weeratunga in the presence of the Cardinal Archbishop of Colombo. At both these meetings they failed even to have a look at even one of the grievances raised by me in spite of my repeated insistence. A third meeting was promised by them to be held along with those state-personnel with experience and expertise with regard to the grievances proposed and this meeting never saw the light of day as that was the end of this exercise and now two years have passed allowing us only to gasp in the air. For the above reasons I regret that I am not in a position to appear before your commission with any hope of a retrieve.

இராயப்பு ஜோசப்பை கைது செய்ய வேண்டும்!- பொதுபல சேனா

 பொதுபல சேனாவின் பொதுச் செயலாளர் கலகொட அத்தே ஞானசார தேரர்

நாட்டை காட்டிக் கொடுக்கும் இராயப்பு ஜோசப்பை கைது செய்ய வேண்டும்!- பொதுபல சேனா
[ செவ்வாய்க்கிழமை, 12 ஓகஸ்ட் 2014, 05:20.44 AM GMT ]

நாட்டையும், படையினரையும் காட்டிக் கொடுக்கும் மன்னார் ஆயர் இராயப்பு ஜோசப்பை கைது செய்து சட்டத்தின் முன் நிறுத்த வேண்டும் என வலியுறுத்தும் பொதுபல சேனாவின் பொதுச் செயலாளர் கலகொட அத்தே ஞானசார தேரர், அவரைக் கைது செய்வதற்கு அரசாங்கம் பின்னடிப்பது எதற்காக என்றும் கேள்வியெழுப்பினார்.
காணாமல் போனோர் தொடர்பாக விசாரணை செய்வதற்கு அரசாங்கத்தால் நியமிக்கப்பட்ட  ஆணைக்குழு மீது நம்பிக்கை இல்லையென்றும், அக் குழுவிற்கு சாட்சியமளிக்க தயாரில்லை என்றும் தெரிவித்திருந்தார்.

அத்துடன், இது தொடர்பில் அறிக்கையொன்றை சமர்ப்பிப்பதாகவும் மன்னாரில் இடம்பெற்ற விசாரணையின் போது ஆயர் இராயப்பு ஜோசப் தெரிவித்தமை தொடர்பாக தமது பக்க நிலைப்பாட்டை தெளிவுபடுத்திய போதே கலகொட அத்தே ஞானசாரதேரர் இவ்வாறு தெரிவித்தார்.

இது தொடர்பாக தேரர் மேலும் தெரிவிக்கையில்;

ஆயர் இராயப்பு ஜோசப் தொடர்ந்தும் இலங்கைக்கு எதிராகவும் எமது படையினருக்கு எதிராகவும் தேசிய ரீதியிலும் சர்வதேச ரீதியிலும் தொடர்ந்து கருத்துக்களை வெளியிட்டு வருகின்றார். இவற்றையெல்லாம் பார்த்துக் கொண்டு அரசாங்கம் மௌனமாக இருக்கின்றது.

இராயப்பு ஜோசப் இலங்கையின் அரசியலமைப்பையும் சட்டங்களையும் மீறி செயற்படுகின்றார்.

இறுதிக் கட்ட யுத்தத்தில் எமது படையினர் கொத்து குண்டுகளை மக்கள் மீது பொழிந்தனர் என்றும் சர்வதேச ரீதியில் பிரசாரத்தை இவரே முன்னெடுத்தார்.

பாம்பு கடிக்கிறது என கூச்சலிட்டுக் கொண்டிருக்காமல் அப் பாம்மை அடித்துக் கொல்ல வேண்டும். அதேபோன்று தேசத்துரோக செயலில் தொடர்ந்தும் ஈடுபட்டு வரும் இராயப்பு ஜோசப்பை கைது செய்து சிறையில் அடைக்க வேண்டுமென்றும் கலகொட அத்தே ஞானசார தேரர் தெரிவித்தார்.

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தமிழ் பேசும் விளையாட்டு வீர வீராங்கனைகள் எவருமில்லை கிளாஸ்கோவில் ! இதுவா நல்லிணக்கம்?

தமிழ் பேசும் விளையாட்டு வீர வீராங்கனைகள் எவருமில்லை கிளாஸ்கோவில் ! இதுவா நல்லிணக்கம்?

ஸ்காட்லாந்தின் கிளாஸ்கோ நகரில் அண்மையில் நடந்துமுடிந்த 20-வது காமன்வெல்த் விளையாட்டு விழாவின்போது விளையாட்டுத் துறை அமைச்சர்களுக்கிடையிலான கருத்தரங்கொன்று நடந்தது.

முப்பது ஆண்டு கால போருக்குப் பின்னர் இலங்கை விளையாட்டுத்துறை ஊடாக இனங்களுக்கு இடையே நல்லிணக்கத்தை ஏற்படுத்த முனைவதாக இலங்கை அமைச்சர் மகிந்தானந்த அளுத்கமகே இந்த கருத்தரங்கில் விளக்கமளித்திருந்தார்.

வடக்கு கிழக்குப் பிரதேசங்களில் விளையாட்டு உட்கட்டமைப்பு வசதிகளை அபிவிருத்திசெய்து விளையாட்டு வீரர்களை அடையாளம் கண்டு ஊக்குவித்து வருவதாக 71 அணிகளைப் பிரதிநிதித்துவப்படுத்தும் உலக விளையாட்டுத் துறை அமைச்சர்கள் மத்தியில் இலங்கை அமைச்சர் பெருமைப்பட்டுக் கொண்டார்.

´முன்னாள் போர் வலயங்களைச் சேர்ந்த இளைஞர்களை உள்வாங்கிக் கொண்டு வேலைத்திட்டம் ஒன்றை ஆரம்பிக்குமாறு அரசாங்கம் எங்களைக் கேட்டுக் கொண்டது. அதற்காக நாங்கள் தேர்ந்தெடுத்த வழிமுறை தான் விளையாட்டுத்துறை´ என்றார் இலங்கை விளையாட்டுத்துறை அமைச்சர் மகிந்தானந்த அளுத்கமகே.

இம்முறை கிளாஸ்கோ விளையாட்டு விழாவில் 104 விளையாட்டு வீர-வீராங்கனைகள் இலங்கையிலிருந்து கலந்துகொண்டிருந்தனர். மேலதிகமாக 45 விளையாட்டு அதிகாரிகளும் வந்திருந்தனர்.

ஆனால், இவர்களில் வடக்குக் கிழக்குப் பிரதேசங்களைச் சேர்ந்த தமிழ் பேசும் விளையாட்டு வீர வீராங்கனைகள் எவரையும் கிளாஸ்கோவில் காணக்கிடைக்க வில்லை.

ஆனால், உள்ளூர் தேசிய மட்டப் போட்டிகளில் வடக்கு கிழக்கு இளைஞர்கள் திறமைகளை வெளிப்படுத்திவருவதாக அதிகாரிகள் கூறுகின்றனர்.

Taher: Disarming the resistance is a pipe dream of the occupier

 Disarming the resistance is a pipe dream of the occupier

It is our inalienable right to resist this occupation

Aug 06 2014


“Disarming the resistance is out of the question, and all factions hold tight to their weapons as long as their is occupation anywhere on the land of Palestine,” said Comrade Dr. Maher al-Taher, a member of the political bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

“There are various media reports that Israel will not accept the reconstruction of Gaza except after the removal of the weapons of the resistance, and it is demanding to supervise everything that enters the Strip. We have affirmed very clearly that the idea of disarming the resistance is a pipe dream and an illusion that is unacceptable to all. It is unacceptable to even discuss this issue in principle or see it as a debatable question. It is our inalienable right to resist this occupation,” said Taher.

He noted that the Palestinian delegation is united in its insistence to lift the siege imposed on Gaza and allow free movement of goods and people. “This demand is part of the political battle, which must be addressed as competently and with as much steadfastness and clarity as the resistance has done in the military battlefield.”

Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees: Ban Ki-Moon must resign immediately

Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees: Ban Ki-Moon must resign immediately

Aug 04 2014

The Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees released the following statement on August 3:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon gave a green light to the Zionist occupation to continue its aggression and carry out more massacres against our people in the Gaza Strip using internationally prohibited weapons. Following his remarks about the need to “immediately and unconditionally release the soldier,” relying on the false claims by the occupation state to justify breaking the humanitarian ceasefire, the occupier has killed more than 200 children, women and men, wounding hundreds more and destroying more homes and displacing thousands more during what was alleged to be a United Nations-sponsored ceasefire!

This comes in addition to his comments that “the United Nations strongly condemns the rocket attacks on Israel, and calls for an end to them immediately.” He says this while there are massive massacres taking place in the Strip impacting every one of our people in Gaza, even those who have taken refuge in UNRWA schools. We are left to bury our people, after these vicious attacks, following which the occupation state declared that the soldier in question was dead.

We demand that Ban Ki-Moon immediately resign from office, as it is clear that he is biased to stand with the perpetrator and the criminal, the occupation, rather than to stand with the victim. We demand that he be tried for the consequences of his actions. And we demand from all forces and institutions, and from all the friends of the Palestinian people to work together to campaign demanding his resignation and his trial as a partner in the aggression against the sons and daughters of our people.

We also emphasize the urgent need to continue all activities to support our people in Gaza, in Palestine and in all areas of the world.

PFLP praises direct actions for Palestine and urges further escalation

PFLP praises direct actions for Palestine and urges further escalation
Aug 06 2014

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine praises the direct actions taken by various groups around the world to shut down the operations of the war machine assaulting the Palestinian people, and calls for increasing and escalating these actions everywhere the occupier and its supporters are present.

The Front commended the multiple direct actions around the world targeting Israeli embassies, consulates, institutions and corporations, including the 2-day occupation of an Elbit arms factory outside Birmingham, UK; the blockade of the Israeli embassy in The Hague; the shutdown of El Al’s ticket counter in Athens; popular de-shelving and removal of Israeli products in Ireland; and actions in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Albuquerque in the United States at Israeli missions and consulates, Bank Leumi, Israel Discount Bank, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin, as well as a upcoming blockade of an Israeli ZIM Ship in Oakland, California. These actions come amid a flurry of die-ins and sit-ins in parliamentary and government offices across Europe, North America and around the world, and demonstrations in Paris and elsewhere taking the streets, defying police and government repression to stand with Palestine.

Comrade Khaled Barakat said, in a message to the solidarity movements with Palestine around the world, that “These actions are part of the Palestinian, Arab and international resistance to the Israeli massacres against our people. They illustrate that the people of the world are fed up with the images they have seen for the past month – of children torn apart and innocent Palestinians besieged and bombarded. This has been the Palestinian reality for over 66 years – and the people of the world are saying, ‘Enough!’ We want to see more of these direct actions, such as occupying Israeli and U.S. embassies and consulates, shutting down war profiteers and occupation corporations, and civil disobedience actions in cities around the world. These actions make clear that Palestinians are not alone, and that the people of the world are putting their own bodies on the line because they will no longer tolerate the illegitimate occupation state’s actions.”

Barakat emphasized that the Palestinian struggle is an international struggle; as Comrade Ghassan Kanafani said, “The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.”

“The impact of these direct actions is felt in every Palestinian heart in Gaza. They are heard and felt by every Palestinian fighter in Gaza who emerges from the tunnels of resistance, that the people of conscience of the world stand with our just struggle for liberation,” said Barakat.

Barakat noted that “while the colonial and settler colonial governments of the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and the European Union are engaged in an imperialist campaign to liquidate the Palestinian people and their cause, hundreds of thousands of people in these countries have taken to the streets to stand with Palestine and denounce the bloody complicity of these powers, the sponsors of the racist settler colonial project in Palestine. What drives individuals and groups to occupy an Israeli embassy or shut down an Israeli weapons factory is their deep sense of justice, and their outrage at the injustices inflicted upon the Palestinian people.”

He saluted the support of the people of Latin America, as well as the official support extended by Latin American governments, including Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, El Salvador Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador. “The people of Latin America have fought colonialism and U.S. imperialism for too long to remain silent in the face of the U.S.-sponsored war machine occupying Palestine and massacring our people,” said Barakat.
sains“The Palestinian resistance has always welcomed internationalists to fight among us, and to be an integral part of this struggle. There are countless internationals: fighters, leaders, artists, writers, journalists, who have done so and continue to do so, and we know them through their direct actions. They join the Palestinian struggle through their direct actions, in armed struggle, in demonstrations, in occupying embassies and war and occupation profiteers and putting themselves on the line alongside our people,” Barakat said.

Barakat noted that “these direct actions send a significant message also to the occupation state: that the world is watching and the people are watching – and that they are angry, and acting, and not merely observing. Occupying Israeli embassies, consulates, trade offices, and corporations everywhere in the world is an important part of boycotting and isolating the settler-colonial apartheid regime in Palestine. This kind of action is also reaching the occupier’s media and public. They can no longer count on the silence or the ignorance of the people of the world – today, after over 66 years of Zionist colonization and occupation in Palestine, it is quite clear that the world does know, and is speaking and acting to bring an end to the massacres and the crimes. The Israeli entity must learn that the world no longer can tolerate Zionism.”

PFLP: We will not raise the white flag in the face of massacres

PFLP: We will not raise the white flag in the face of massacres

Aug 03 2014

A statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of  Palestine in the Gaza Strip

We will not raise the white flag – and the blood of the martyrs of Rafah and Gaza illuminates the road to liberation

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine saluted proudly the heroic military resistance of the Palestinian people east of Rafah, leading to the deaths of many soldiers and reports of the capture of an officer, confirming that the continued Zionist crimes against the people of Gaza, the latest being the massacre of dozens of people in Rafah, will not pass in vain, and that the blood of the martyrs of our people will remain a beacon that illuminates our path to liberation.

The criminal and brutal Zionist enemy intended in advance to target the city of Rafah through massive assaults on the city since yesterday, committing open atrocities against our people without seeing any need to justify its continuous aggression since its occupation began on the land of Palestine. The barbaric war machine’s crimes during the continued assault on Gaza for over 26 days confirms its defeat by the resistance strikes as it has resorted instead to bloody massacres against civilians, innocent women, men, children and elders in indiscriminate and massive bombing and shelling. The Front also reiterated the resistance’s confirmation that the clash with invading occupation soldiers took place before the beginning of the humanitarian ceasefire.

The Front is confident in the Palestinian resistance, its military wings, and its achievements, and the occupation’s criminal assaults and invasions of Rafah are desperate attempts to justify its utter failure in front of the great and brave resistance and its heroism, noting at the same time that the resistance is prepared to confront all of the occupation’s threats and plans to invase Rafah. The resistance will not give up, our people’s resolve will not be broken. We will not raise the white flag. We are determined to win this battle and the resistance will continue to shatter the image of the invincible Zionist soldier.

The Front renewed its emphasis on the need for our people in the West Bank to escalate their ongoing clashes with the Zionist occupation in all areas, and also emphasized the need for the Palestinian people in exile and diaspora, the Arab masses and the free people of the world to escalate their actions to support Gaza and take the streets and besiege the embassies of the Zionist enemy and expel their ambassadors.

The Front also demanded that the official Palestinian leadership 

immediately sign without any delay the Rome Statute and go to the 

International Criminal Court to prosecute the leaders of the occupation for their heinous crimes in the Gaza Strip. There is no excuse for continued postponement on this and the lack of response is understood clearly as collusion and participation in the aggression.

The PFLP saluted the steadfastness of our people in Rafah, Beit Hanoun and throughout the Strip who are subjected to systematic genocide, saying that victory is coming to reward their immense steadfastness and patience in the face of unspeakable crimes.

Chris Gunness overcome with Tears