September 2, 2010

Kurdistan - a land in waiting to be built

Why is the unemployment rate so high? And especially for our youth? Where are all the jobs? Why are jobs filled with workers from Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka?

The goverment pay salaries to their own people for doing nothing more than occupy a chair and through corruption add more to their personal wealth. The government teach their people to be lazy instead of start building up our country. In every city - how many people lojal to the party are collecting salaries without doing any work at all? It is actually several thousand persons. And of all these - who do you think have the highest salaries? Those who sold themselves to Saddam and murdered Kurds...

It is time to start building this country. This is a country that need electricity, water, roads, schools, hospitals. We have thousands of villages that need to be rebuilt and farmers that need help to start farming again. We have the money, the jobs are there and the people ready to work. Kurdistan is a land waiting to be built. The Kurds are a people waiting for the chance to do that. When do we start?

August 30, 2010

Our helping angels are butchers

Have you been to the doctor in Kurdistan recently? I hope not. The ruling parties should be ashamed of the state of our health care in our country.

Imagine that you are feeling ill and you need a doctor. You go to the hospital. The first you notice is
the awful smell and how dirty everything is. The line is long and there is nowhere to sit. When you finally get to meet the doctor you will have to do this with five other patients in the room waiting for their turn. You have no privacy at all. And if you get an x-ray, EKG or som other test you are lucky if the nurses do not have any friends visiting, because then you will have to wait forever. They do not care for patients, only their own matters. And you have to pray for that the medications the doctor writes for you are the right ones and that they are not expired. But if you look like you can afford it, you will get a second chance. The doctor will guaranteed tell you to come later this evening to his private practice so that he can help you further.

Later you go the doctors private clinic. The clinic is like a cave, a room with no furniture and hot like an oven in the summer. The doctor examines 50-70 persons in four hours. He will meet with 3-4 patients at the same time. The doctor will ask you to lie down on a filthy bed and then you will have two minutes to tell him your problem. How can these doctors concentrate on so many patients at the same time and decide on their care on such short examinations? A doctor should be the helping angel when you need him but they are all like butchers.

Do we have any controls or regulations for doctors and medication in Kurdistan? If they exist, they are just words on a paper.

August 22, 2010

A house on frail ice - our future?

Kurdistan is becoming a house on frail ice. The children, the young Kurds, are the future of our people. We do not have a future unless we take care of our youth. But the ruling parties are not seeing to that the young get an education.

The children up til 8th grade - they cannot even write a letter. But if you have rich parents you do not need to worry. You will get good grades and an exam anyway. It will just cost your parents some bribes to the teacher.

They say our school system is the same as in Sweden. Do you really believe that is so? Our teachers do not care about their pupils and the pupils do not have respect for the teachers.The regulations of how the teachers should teach and what the children are supposed to learn are just words on a paper.

Also 90% of the schools are not worthy to be called schools. The buildings are cold in the winter and there are too many pupils in each classroom. There are no materials, broken furniture, holes in the walls. And still there are at least a thousand schools missing today in Kurdistan.

The ruling party leaders, if they know this and are not doing anything about it, it is a catastrophe. If they do not know what is happening with the future of Kurdistan, it is even worse.