OUR MISSION
FREE KURDISTAN AND THE KURDS(First posted early 2021
The people of Kurdistan, with a population of 70+ million, have a civilization going back to thousands of years living in their homeland, Kurdistan. The ethnic ancestors of the Kurds are an Indo European people.Kurdistan was inhabited from the early ages of human history by the nations in the Zagros mountains composed of the Loulou, the Kouti, the Kassi, the Khaldeans, the Sumarians, Hurians and the Sobarian, 30 centuries BC. Also the Mitanians and Nairi, All these ancient peoples form the ancient roots of the Kurds.
Since the fall of the Mitanian and Median Kurdish Empires, Kurdistan has been subjected to attacks by countless peoples and governments who have tried to colonise and conquer it. Some of these conquerors were Alexander the Macedonian, Sassanians, Armenians, Romans, Arabs, Tatars, Ottomans, Russians, Britain and the French.
After World War I the Ottoman Empire collapsed and the victorious British and French empires divided the properties of the losers as Ottoman Empire. The Treaty of Sevres in 1920 did provide for the creation of a state of Kurdistan, but the chauvinist Turks eventually refused to ratify it and a second Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 omitted Kurdistan altogether.
Thus Kurdistan was carved up into five parts. Eastern Kurdistan went to Iran, South Kurdistan to Iraq, West Kurdistan to Syria, North Kurdistan to Turkey and a small part to the former Soviet Union.
Complexity of the Kurdish issue in the Cold War more than it is complicated, is the entry of the United States of America into the international politics since the division of Kurdistan after the First World War, where the world was also divided into one part with America and the other against America, and those who were against the Communism, Nazism, Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and their supporters.
At the same time, the countries that occupy Kurdistan were divided into one or more of them with America and the rest are anti-American, so the terrible judgment against the Kurdish people appeared much more clearer in considering any Kurdish liberation movement in one of the countries that occupy Kurdistan which is against America was considered by America as a friendly movement, and every Kurdish liberation movement in one of the countries that occupies Kurdistan, ally to America, America considered it as terrorist movement.
For example, the Kurdish revolution which announced by the PKK in northern Kurdistan, America considered it a terrorist movement because fighting its ally Turkey, and the Kurdish revolution in southern Kurdistan was considered by America as a friendly movement to America because Iraq led by Saddam Hussein was against America.
The result is: that America's friends considered the Kurds in Turkey a terrorist movement, and America's enemies considered the Kurds in Iraq as America's spies.
In fact, the Kurds are not a terrorist movement nor are they America's spies, but the sinister division of Kurdistan put the Kurdish people in a very pernicious angle.
So, the Kurdish people lost any international support from America's friends and from America's enemies as well.
The international recognition of the Government and Parliament of Southern Kurdistan, it is not a political solution but a humanitarian recognition that took place since 1991 after the two million Kurds broke the Sykes-Picot borders. This exodus terrified all the enemies of the Kurds, so they gave the Kurds this human right in order not to break the borders of Sykes-Picot again.
ATROCITIESSince the division of Kurdistan the Kurds have attempted numerous uprisings and armed revolutions to gain their rights. However, all the leaders of those Kurdish liberation movements have been exiled, imprisoned or executed. Just as few examples we mention:
Sheikh Abdulsalam Barzani was executed by the Turks in the Mosel Prison in1914
Sheikh Mahmoud Hafid King of Kurdistan 1919-1924 has been exiled to India.
Sheikh Saeed Piran in 1925 and Sayed Reza in 1939 were executed.
Apo Osman Sabri in 1936 was exiled to Madagascar and has been imprisoned 18 times.
Qazi Muhammad President of Kurdistan Republic in 1946 was executed.
General Mustafa Barzani with 500 fighters was exiled to Soviet Union 1947-1958.
Dr Abdulrahman Qasimlo was assassinated in Vienna 1989.
Dr Saeed Sharafkendi was assassinated in Berlin 1993.
Abdulla Ocalan was kidnaped by international forces in 1999.
Among the worst atrocities were those committed by the Iraqi State, as a few examples show:5000 Fayli Kurds have been kidnapped and murdered in 1980.
8000 Barzani Kurds have been kidnapped and murdered in 1983.
5000 Kurdish victims of the chemical attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja 1988.
182000 Kurdish civilians, buried alive by the Iraqi regime in 1988.
The Kurdish people still facing mass killing and genocides in all parts of Kurdistan as:
the Yazidis in Shingal 2014 , Kobani 2015, Kirkuk 2017 and Afrin 2018.
The Kurdish nation living in their original homeland since thousands of years was wiped off from the map, just as more than 200 other nations in the world:
Tamazight, Tuaregs, Kabayel, Copts, Africans Sudan, the Arameans, Armenians, Phoenicians, the Maronites, Assyrians, Kurds, Hebrews, Chaldeans, Laz, Baluch, Pashtuns, the Tamil people in Sri Lanka and the people of Rohingya in Southeast Asia and the peoples of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia and the people of Tibet and the Uighur and Hmong and Acehnese people in China and people of Acehnese in Indonesia and the people of Shan in Myanmar and the peoples of Kashmir, Sindhi and Podo and Nagas and Sikhs in India and the peoples of Biafra and Yoruba in Nigeria, and peoples of Benin, Togo and Bakongo in Angola and the people of Buganda in Uganda and many others.
The ignoring of these nations by the occupier states is the main reason of emerging terrorism, so sorting out the problems of the occupied nations we will have a safer and more righteous world.
In the name of Islam Arabs, Persians, Turks and others invaded the countries of indigenous nations as the Kurds, Amazigh, Baloch and many others and they dealt with them as their slaves, and looted their wealth for themselves and over many centuries stripped them off their national heritage, and imposed the culture and identity of Arabs, Persians, Turks and others invaders on them.
Dr. Jawad Mella
