Kurds in the time of Cholera
When Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote Love in the time of Cholera, he dealt with poverty in the Caribbean, when cholera exist means that poverty and neglect exists.
This was in the Caribbean, one of the highest humidity areas on Earth and warm climate and therefore this disease is frequent, flourishes in such conditions, but these are not the conditions in North Iraq or Sulaymaniyah to spread the epidemic except for the following reasons:
Drinking water is contaminated and polluted, which means neglected by the authorities.
According to a report issued International Medical Corps only 30% of the population of Sulaymaniyah have drinking water supply, for two hours only, and now Kurdish authorities asked the world to intervene to prevent the spread of the epidemic and to address the situation.
Wonder, does the Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq has been unable to supply the population with clean while its share of the annual State budget nearly seven billion dollars?? The oil money? In addition to the revenues from taxes and internal customs duties that they don’t share with the central government, not to mention the assistance from here and there to build a school or university or hospital or other assistance obtained by the Kurdish authorities from governmental and non-governmental organizations ..
In fact, the share has been less before the fall of Saddam government, which did not receive more than 13% of oil imports
Where that money went??
Or is it going to Kurdish warlord’s pockets?
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