Thursday, August 18, 2005

Would the Permanent Constitution Solve the Problem of Regime in Iraq?


3. Ethnic division and conceptual confusion between nationalism and religion: The constitution has coined that the Arabs and Kurds are "two major races", and has coined "basic races for the Turkmen, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Armenians, Shabaks and Persians." Then it moved to the Yezidi and Sabaen Mandaen religions (Article 3). It can be stated that the Iraqi people consist of two major races "Arabs and Kurds", in addition to other racial, and linguistic and religious races, then stating them by name. The constitution guarantees their rights, pursuant to the UN Convention for the Protection of National Minorities for 1992, and the International Convention on Human Rights, on basis of full parity, equality and citizenship......