In a dispatch posted at 2:12pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a source in the puppet police in Kirkuk had announced that a member of the so-called “Worker Communist Party of Iraq” had been killed by unknown armed men who entered the party’s office building in Kikur, 250km north of Baghdad. In a statement the WCPI called the killing a “criminal political assassination.”
Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police who asked not to be identified as saying that armed men raided the office of the WCPI on Friday and opened fire on a man called Musa Husayn Hasan, killing him on the spot.
A statement by the WCPI on Sunday described Hasan as an active cadre of the party who was killed Friday evening, and said that he had been tortured before being shot.
The so-called “Worker Communist Party of Iraq,” founded in 1993, advocates national nihilism, denouncing national liberation causes and most of the world’s Communist Parties as “nationalist” and “bourgeois,” asserting that they are followers of what it claims was the “bourgeois regime established in the Soviet Union beginning in the late 1920s.”
The WCPI, which is largely based in the predominantly Kurdish areas of northern Iraq, and which opposes Arab nationalism and Iraqi patriotism, has however, called for turning northern Iraq into an independent Kurdish state. Kirkuk, a city where Arabs are the largest population group, is claimed by Kurdish separatist forces that seek to annex the oil-rich city to a “Kurdistan” region.
From Socialism Now-LWCPI:
A special on the assassination of Comrade Musa Hussein Kirkuk official organization of the party:
Download (in arabic): http://www.socialismnow.org/videos/stv140108.wmv
