The shock wave of the revolution spreads to Iraqi Kurdistan. A boy died yesterday aged 14 and another 57 were injured, three of them extremely serious in the city of Sulaimaniyah, the second largest of the autonomous region. It would be a peaceful demonstration to congratulate the people of Egypt and Tunisia for their speed.
But when participants halrededor 200 - gathered at the seat of KPD, the party that for decades dominated Iraqi Kurdistan, some tried to storm the building. The guards responded by firing into the crowd. In a dramatic video showed a young man lying on the ground for help. "Shooting people was a huge error of KPD," said Falah Moradkhin, a lawyer in Sulaimaniyah.
"There is so much anger against the government." At seven o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, the governor declared a curfew and today the city of Sulaimaniyah, usually teeming with life and commerce, is taken by the Army. "Every hundred meters there are two armed federal agents in front of my office there is a tank with 20 soldiers," said Moradkhin.
Autonomous Kurdistan boasts of being the only democratic region of Iraq, but after this incident, the anger will grow. The KPD, led by former region, Massoud Barzani, has teamed up recently with his former rival PUK, led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, to tackle Gorran opposition movement led by Mustafa Nusherwan, denouncing corruption in the spheres of power.
"Some members of KDP Gorran accuse of being behind the protest, but he denies it. Still, government supporters have been assaulted and burned the offices of Gorran in Erbil, and Duhok Soran. Gorran calls for calm at the moment." But it is clear that democracy in the autonomous region, firm U.S.
ally, Turkey, is already compromised. 
But when participants halrededor 200 - gathered at the seat of KPD, the party that for decades dominated Iraqi Kurdistan, some tried to storm the building. The guards responded by firing into the crowd. In a dramatic video showed a young man lying on the ground for help. "Shooting people was a huge error of KPD," said Falah Moradkhin, a lawyer in Sulaimaniyah.
"There is so much anger against the government." At seven o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, the governor declared a curfew and today the city of Sulaimaniyah, usually teeming with life and commerce, is taken by the Army. "Every hundred meters there are two armed federal agents in front of my office there is a tank with 20 soldiers," said Moradkhin.
Autonomous Kurdistan boasts of being the only democratic region of Iraq, but after this incident, the anger will grow. The KPD, led by former region, Massoud Barzani, has teamed up recently with his former rival PUK, led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, to tackle Gorran opposition movement led by Mustafa Nusherwan, denouncing corruption in the spheres of power.
"Some members of KDP Gorran accuse of being behind the protest, but he denies it. Still, government supporters have been assaulted and burned the offices of Gorran in Erbil, and Duhok Soran. Gorran calls for calm at the moment." But it is clear that democracy in the autonomous region, firm U.S.
ally, Turkey, is already compromised.
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