It would deepen the fight with our neighbors and bring decades of war against the Arab as well as chaos and suffering",[1] and that "the era of nation-state is over. A state does not buy freedom because it's a bourgeoisie system that enforces repression on the people by an elite."[7] Bese Hozat also criticized Masoud Barzani, the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) which called the referendum. She argues that the KDP are too centralized and that they were blackmailing the Kurdish population in South Kurdistan by telling them to support the independence referendum.[7]