Jafar Abd al-Karim Barzanji

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Barzanji could not even claim his homeland Sulaimaniya in 1991, although it was south of the Northern No-Fly Zone established to protect the rebels . Barzanji's pro-government militias had been infiltrated by rebels.

Sheikh Jafar Abd al-Karim Barzandschi (* after 1940 in Sulaimaniya , Iraq ), and Jaffar, Jaafar or Jafar Abdul Karim (Abdul Karim) Barzanji or Baranzanji, Barzinji, Barazanchi or Berzincî (Arabic جعفر عبد الكريم بەرزنجی) is a former Kurdish politician in Iraq . From 1989 to 1991 he was the last Baathist head of government in the Kurdish Autonomous Region in Northern Iraq.

Barzanji came from the Barzanji clan, which was at least regionally influential in Sulaimaniya and traditionally rivaled both the Jaf Kurds and the Talabani clan and had established a brief independent rule in Sulaimaniya under Mahmud Barzanji at the beginning of the 1920s . In the 1970s he was a member of the Iraqi Communist Party , which had formed a coalition with the Ba'ath Party within the National Progressive Front . After the communists left the National Front, Barzanji became a member of the Ba'ath Party, while the Communist Party allied itself with Kurdish rebels and raised arms against the Ba'ath government. Barzanji took over command of the pro-government Kurdish militias in Kirkuk and was elected to the Iraqi National Assembly in 1980 as a member of the Iraqi national assembly for Sulaimaniya.

In the Kurdish Autonomous Region established by the Iraqi government, Barzanji was initially governor of Sulaimaniya from 1983 . As the successor to the Jaf Kurd Sirwan Abdullah Hussein , he became chairman of the executive council of the autonomous region (head of the regional government) in 1989 - and remained so until 1991, when the government finally lost control of the entire region to Kurdish rebels. Formally, he remained chairman of the Executive Council afterwards and in this function rejected the conditions set by the Kurdish parties KDP and PUK for peace talks with the Iraqi government (federation instead of autonomy). During the conquest of Iraq by the USA in 2003, however, he (like the former regional parliamentary leader Baha ad-Din Ahmad Faraj ) initially found refuge in the rebel-controlled areas.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Kirschner: Risk of Returning Former Kurdish Collaborators to the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan - Iraq , Pages 3 and 7. Swiss Refugee Aid, Bern 2006
  2. ↑ a b c KurdishMedia.com of April 25, 2003: Has south Kurdistan become a sanctuary for former Baathists war criminals? Kurdish stories No. 17th
  3. ↑ a b Tel Aviv University: Middle East Contemporary Survey , Vol. XIII 1989, page 397. Holmes & Meier, New York 1991
  4. ↑ Ofra Bengio (Ed.): Kurdish Awakening - Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland , page 70f. University of Texas Press, Austin 2014
  5. ↑ a b c Erhard Franz : Kurden und Kurdentum - Contemporary history of a people and its national movements , pages 126, 164f, 171f. Messages 30, German Orient Institute Hamburg 1986
  6. ^ The New York Times of April 14, 1991: After the war - Iraq Trying to Persuade Refugees to Return
  7. ↑ The Kurdistan Observer from August 19, 2001: Baghdad Rejects Kurd's Conditions For Initiating Peace Talks . In: Middle East Socialists Network (MEN)
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SURNAME Jafar Abd al-Karim Barzanji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barzanji, Barzinji
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish politician in Iraq
DATE OF BIRTH after 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulaimaniya , Iraq