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Why has not the Kurdish People been able
to establish its own state yet?
28.11.2007
By Dr Jawad Mella, President of Kurdistan National
Congress
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November 28, 2007
It has been centuries and the Kurdish People suffers
from a struggle for existence and living with
dignity and national, human and civil liberties,
fighting against occupation. The life of the Kurdish
individuals in many places and times almost
resembles that of slavery or even worse because
slaves are allowed to be called so while a Kurd in
his own homeland Kurdistan is denied the right of
being described as Kurdish and even after the
liberation of Southern Kurdistan from the
dictatorship of Baath the Kurdish people there still
do not have an identity card saying that they are
Kurds as the Iraqi passport that after the
liberation is issued in Sulaimaniyah or Hawler in
Arabic language and not Kurdish and says that the
holder is an Iraqi. While in Britain even dogs and
cats have something round their necks indicating
whether it is a dog or a cat, the Kurds have not
reached that level yet.
This situation is a result of deep studies into the
Kurdish society by the countries that occupy
Kurdistan making the Kurdish people incapable of
demanding its right to establish a Kurdish state. |
Dr Jawad Mella, President of
Kurdistan National Congress |
They have done this by
wasting the time and energy of the Kurdish people on
secondary issues such as: the thing that occupies
the time of more than 20 million Kurds in Northern
Kurdistan is freedom for Mr Abdullah Ocalan from his
imprisonment and it is likely to be so even after
his death. Also the Kurds in Western Kurdistan are
occupied most with reinstating the Syrian
nationality to the Kurds who have been deprived from
it for half a century and this situation may last
for another half a century. The Kurdish people in
Southern Kurdistan are mostly occupied with the
Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution while in
Eastern Kurdistan they are busy with refusing Ahmadi
Nejad and demanding another President that could be
even more dictatorial. In reality these are all
careful plans by the countries occupying Kurdistan
in order to engage the Kurdish people away from its
main objective which is the liberation of Kurdistan
and not Ocalan, demanding a Kurdish nationality and
not Syrian, carrying out Article 64 of the Sevres
Treaty and not Article 140 and lastly working
towards the rule of Kurdistan by the Kurdish people
and not Ahmadi Najad or any one else. Wasting the
energies of the Kurdish people on such things has
dire consequences for the future of the Kurdish
people and its national security, because the time
wasted in such a way makes the Kurds the victims of
a never ending vicious circle.
It is true that the international and regional
policies especially of those countries that occupy
Kurdistan was always and still is against the
establishment of a Kurdish state but despite this
huge animosity towards a Kurdish state the struggle
of the Kurds is still going on with ups and downs.
The struggle has materialised in the great Kurdish
revolutions in all parts of Kurdistan that all were
for the independence of Kurdistan and establishment
of the Kurdish state, such as: the revolution of the
Baban Princedom, revolution of Badinan Princedom,
revolution of Botan Princedom, revolution of Sheik
Obeidullah Nehri, revolutions of Ismael Agha Shikak,
revolution of Ibrahim Pasha Milli, revolution of
Sheik Saeed Piran, revolutions of Mardisian Tribe,
revolutions of Barzan and others… Some of these
revolutions and uprisings managed to establish
Kurdish states in one of the regions of Kurdistan
such as the Kingdom of Southern Kurdistan headed by
the King of Kurdistan Sheik Mahmoud Hafid 1919 –
1924 and others as Kurdish governments such as the
one formed by Khoiboon Party during its revolution
in Northern Kurdistan under the leadership of
General Ihsan Nouri Pasha 1927 – 1930, or others as
the Kurdish Republic in Eastern Kurdistan formed by
the President of Kurdistan Qazi Muhammad in 1946.
These states, kingdoms and republics despite their
mistakes and failures became an inspiration for all
liberty loving revolutionaries of Kurdistan.
However, half a century ago and with establishment
of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan and its quick
spread in all parts of Kurdistan as if supported by
states and governments similar to the spread of the
yellow and green flags, and since the beginning the
Democratic Party of Kurdistan adopted the Marxist
theories of Lenin that ignore the role of the
Sheiks, Mullas, Agas, tribal chieftain and
personalities of the Kurdish villages and towns for
no reason other than being rich, and relying on
labourers and proletariat just because they are poor
according to the Marxist theories. In fact at the
time there was not any bourgeoisie or proletariat in
Kurdistan such as Lenin spoke about and the reason
for this turning upside down of the Kurdish society
was in order to created a situation and not allow
the Sheiks, Mullas, Agas and chieftains to lead the
Kurdish revolution as all the Kurdish revolutions
under the leadership of those were for the
establishment of a Kurdish state. For the same
unholy reason Micaville theories also were adopted
that if you want to destroy a people diminish its
good people and nobility or at least ignore them and
bring those persons who have no effect in building a
society and its history. So as an example the
Democratic Party of Kurdistan since its
establishment started a campaign of propaganda and
lies against Sheik Mahmoud Hafid the King of
Kurdistan describing him as reactionary and
backwards and refusing to shake hands with the
British High Commissioner, which was the main factor
for the Kurdish people to lose its state and other
such nonsense.www.ekurd.netThe
truth is exactly the opposite as it was Sheik
Mahmoud Hafid who announced the establishment of
Kurdistan Kingdom under the bombardment of British
planes while those who make false propaganda against
him are now under the protection of British and
American planes, yet they cannot announce a state in
Southern Kurdistan such that of the glorious Sheik
Mahmoud a hundred years ago, so who is the real
backwards!!!
Also the Democratic Party of Kurdistan of Iran when
it started its revolution in Eastern Kurdistan after
the Khomeini’s uprising the first thing they did was
to arrest Ali Qazi the only son of the president of
the Kurdistan Republic Qazi Muhammad and handed him
over to the government in Baghdad. Also in Syria and
Turkey the Democratic Party of Kurdistan diminished
the role of the Kurdish nobility so that if the
opportunity arises they would not be able to lead
the people and establish a Kurdish state as they did
before, and thus the leadership remains in the hands
of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan and other
parties and organisations affiliated to it,
according to a plan that has been made for them in
Damascus, Baghdad, Ankara and Tehran to destroy any
revolution or uprising that may enhance the chances
of a Kurdish state. There are a lot of examples for
this but I mention just a few:
A lot of times some freedom loving people of
Kurdistan described the Democratic Party of
Kurdistan as a traitor because of its practices and
collaboration with one or the other of the states
occupying Kurdistan while fighting against another
one of the occupiers as this policy led to internal
Kurds against Kurds fighting and caused the lives of
the best political and military experts of the
Kurdish people in order to satisfy the states that
occupy Kurdistan. As the thoughts and organisations
of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan are in all
parts of Kurdistan each one of them had a different
ally at one time but in reality these were
differences in form and the essence remains that
they are all allied with those countries that occupy
Kurdistan and helping one group against the other.
The Democratic Party of Kurdistan did not punish
those collaborators and traitors against the Kurdish
people at all for the crimes they committed
especially in hindering the Kurdish revolutions and
moreover, order were issued for their amnesty and
were given the highest of jobs and pensions several
times more than those of the Peshmarga. Also
whenever there was an international or regional
opportunity for the Kurdish people to gain
independence the Democratic Party of Kurdistan
created an internal conflict with the other parties
that would not cease until the opportunity is over.
Such as in the sixties when Iraq was week and with
no chemical or any sophisticated weapons but the
internal Kurdish – Kurdish fighting was so intense
that the Kurdish revolution became a victim of a
prank by the Mars 1970 Declaration that in reality
wanted to destroy the revolution. And because that
the revolution was already fallen for the trick that
ends it the internal fighting was no longer
necessary, so it stopped.
Another chance for independence came with the start
of Iran Iraq war that lasted 8 years and again
instead of taking advantage of the fact that two
occupiers of Kurdistan are fighting each other the
parties started another internal Kurdish – Kurdish
fighting that did not stop until the Iraq Iran war
ended. Only then the Kurdish parties declared a
Kurdistan Front that was supposed to be announced at
the start and not the end of the war.
There was also the opportunity of the Kurdish
uprising of 1991 and the exodus of millions of Kurds
to outside the borders of Sykes – Picot or even
outside the borders of the countries occupying
Kurdistan. While there was a huge unprecedented
international sympathy with the Kurds, the Kurdish
leaders instead of declaring a Kurdish state they
went to Baghdad and kissed Saddam Hussein, the
criminal, so the international sympathy suddenly
stopped, especially as the representatives of the
Kurdish parties were interviewed by international
media during that exodus of millions of Kurds and
asked what the Kurdish people want they would
answer: we want blankets… So, while the world was
listening with interest to the Kurdish tragedy they
were giving the impression that we need blankets. In
fact the poorest Kurd has dozens of blankets in his
house and unfortunately the reality of the tragedy
was kept from the world that is it is a matter of a
people deprived from own state and not blankets.
Some even tried to keep it down exactly as some
Kurdish parties in Syria tried to keep down the
great uprising of March 2004 and still there are
people who describe this uprising using terminology
suggested by the Syrian regime calling it
disturbances, unfortunate incidents, revolt and
other names that are very far from the truth… www.ekurd.net
As for the current great opportunity that has lasted
for 16 years and it is still there, at first the
parties started an internal Kurdish – Kurdish
fighting as usual trying to waste the opportunity,
but after the pressure from the allied forces in
Iraq they declared ceasefire and rose the Kurdistan
flag instead of yellow and green flags. They were
also forced to unify the two governments of
Sulaimaniyah and Hawler. However, the parties still
have no good intentions, and they put the Iraqi flag
beside the Kurdistan flag, and seeing that the
Kurdistan flag and Kurdistan national anthem are
gaining a prominent place in the Kurdish society,
some parties are trying to replace the Kurdistan
flag and anthem forgetting that the flag is sacred
and it is not a flag of Sulaimany or Hawler but it
is the flag of greater Kurdistan and was risen by
all the revolutions in all parts of Kurdistan and
the Kurdish people has shed a lot of sacred blood
for its sake.
It is true that nowadays there are no internal arm
clashes between the parties but there is still
internal fighting in the form of partisan propaganda
against each other that are more dangerous than
arms. Some of the most important ministries are
still not united that is the Ministries of Peshmarga,
Interior and Finances i.e. there are ministries by
the same name in both Sulaimaniyah and Hawler. This
situation is worse than internal fighting because it
divides the Kurdish society. For instance, the
mobile network in Sulaimaniyah covers the entire
world except Hawler and vice versa!!! Despite all
this I cannot accuse the Democratic Party of
Kurdistan and the other Kurdish parties of treason
because they are carrying out their duty very
truthfully by following the plans drawn for them
more than half a century ago to deviate the Kurdish
people with from the high aim of establishing a
state after their failure by wave after wave of
military campaigns and the failure of the
internationalist principles of Marxism and Islamic
ideology to divert it from nationalist aims. That is
why they counted on the teachings of the Democratic
Party of Kurdistan that demand the rights for Kurds
and Kurdistan in each region on its own. I can
summarise the teachings of the Democratic Party of
Kurdistan as follows:
1- Partition of the powers and capabilities of the
Kurdish people with a population of more than 40
million to groups and collectives exactly as planned
by the Sykes-Picot colonialist treaty and what the
states occupying Kurdistan want.
2- Recognising this partition and acting on its
bases automatically leads the Democratic Party of
Kurdistan into a struggle for a role in the regional
politics as a satellite for one of the states
occupying Kurdistan.
3- In both the regional and international politics
there are struggles for influence and coalitions
against each other since the times of empires and
this will last forever with no end in sight. The
Democratic Party of Kurdistan knows this and enters
into this mess for material gains for its party and
diverting the Kurdish people from the objective of
liberation of Kurdistan. Otherwise why some of them
fights on the side of Iraq and the others on the
side of Iran and yet after a while they all sit down
on a table without accusing each other of treason or
put them to account for the murder of thousands of
Kurdish people in those fights. They don’t have
accountability because they are all the same and all
they want is their interests in the regional
policies of Iran or Iraq, or others.
4- The states that have influence in the regional
politics are those that occupy Kurdistan that is why
the Democratic Party of Kurdistan try to become
their satellite leaving aside any thing to do with
liberation of Kurdistan and the use of the words of
Kurds and Kurdistan is nothing but for tricking the
simpletons of the Kurdish people and thus taking
advantage of the huge potential of the Kurdish
people for its own uses and purposes in the regional
politics.
5- If someone forces the issue of the independence
of Kurdistan upon the Democratic Party of Kurdistan,
it will reject it as the previous decades not
because of treason but because of loyalty for its
own principles in playing a role in the regional
politics. In this regard I remember the late Uncle
Osman Sabri who told me 40 years ago the following:
the Kurdish leadership do not want a Kurdish state,
but some day a super power state comes and hit them
on the head with a bat and tell them to declare a
Kurdish state.
Today after half a century of loyalty towards Syria,
Iraq, Turkey and Iran and limiting the rights of the
Kurdish people to those within the borders of those
countries, which is in effect a principal demand of
those countries in order to preserve their own
unity. After all these years of concessions I can
see that those who attack the Kurdish people in the
Arabic media are much more than before and this
despite of the strength and support that the Kurds
today enjoy in Iraq. However, this is based on the
presence of the allied forces in Iraq and if those
forces leave the Kurdish situation goes back to the
level of zero or even less. The deployment of the
allied forces depends on the results of the American
elections next year, and then there will be another
Kurdish melt down worse than that of 1975.
I say that because I am sure of such a catastrophe
even without American elections because such an
entity as in Southern Kurdistan cannot preserve
itself because its based on collaborators and
previous Saddam Hussein’s agents as well as groups
of internationalists that don’t care whether the
Kurdish people belongs to Baghdad or Cuba… www.ekurd.netThis
bunch may certainly be the best within the
government of Kurdistan because the nationalist
education and the Kurdish national security have no
place in the school curriculum or in the media but
on the contrary there are those on the Kurdish TV
stations who put the carriage before the horse such
as in these examples:
1- Around 80% of the time on the Kurdish TV is
wasted on dances, songs and music and the rest to
praise this party or that as if all the problems of
the Kurdish people have been solved and we have
nothing left to do but dance.
2- Several times they show Kurdish intellectuals
telling us that even the American had suffered from
a civil war meaning to justify the internal
Kurdish – Kurdish fighting in one way or the other.
3- Some even claimed that the Americans bombed
Vietnam with chemical weapons as a justification and
belittling the tragedy of Halabja and its
bombardment with chemical weapons.
4- Others occasionally speak about the independence
of Kurdistan using irony and sarcasm and even when
serious some Kurdish thinker speaks for an hour
about the right of the Kurdish people for
independence and then he says: (but) and then speaks
for another hour about the unsuitable circumstances
and how this demand is not realistic as well as
other arguments that are all suggested by the
countries that occupy Kurdistan. In the best
scenario he would say a Kurdish state is the dream
of every Kurd but certainly not his own dream that
is why the Democratic Party of Kurdistan works to
isolate and diminish anyone who dreams of a Kurdish
state.
Finally the organs of the Democratic Party of
Kurdistan are becoming like a bird that tries to
imitate the walk of another bird but it fails and it
forgets its own original walk, as the ideas and
organisations of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan
tries to have a role in the regional politics but
after half a century of this tendency it failed to
have a seat even in the back benches of the regimes
in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey or not even
with the forces in opposition of those regimes. In
democratic countries when a policy of the government
fails to deliver it resigns. However, it has been
half a century of promises and assurances for the
regional states and peoples that the ideas and
organisations of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan
do not attempt to establish a Kurdish state or any
separation from the regional states but it is
totally loyal to those states that occupy Kurdistan
and despite all the millions of Kurdish casualties
on the hands of these regimes without any
justification we don’t see any reaction. If the
Democratic Party of Kurdistan resigns and leave
behind those teachings that failed to convince the
regional states that the Democratic Party of
Kurdistan is loyal to them, this would be a huge
turnaround and a signal for the beginning of
struggle for the liberation of Kurdistan and the
establishment of the Kurdish state. Just imagine if
the forces of General Mustafa Barzani, the forces of
Dr Abdulrahman Qasimlo, the forces of the PKK and
others are united… would there be any force in the
world that could prevent the establishment of a
Kurdish state. www.ekurd.net
I am one of the freedom lovers of Kurdistan; I
participated in the September Revolution while I was
a member of the KAJYK Party calling for a Kurdish
state, I was the first Kurd from Western Kurdistan
to meet the late General Mustafa Barzani several
times in the beginning of the seventies and I
congratulated him for the autonomy. I also
congratulated the Kurdish leadership and first of
all the martyr Idris Barzani with whom I had
distinguished relations because of his nationalistic
tendencies. I also participated in the Gulan
Revolution and was a member in the leadership of
(JUD) Front as a representative of the Pasok Party
when I was a political and military field commander
of the Peshmarga forces in 1982 – 1984 in the Qandil
Mountains. When the Southern Kurdistan gained a
Federal status I was one of the first to
congratulate as despite of been and still a believer
of a Kurdish state, I do not object if the Kurdish
people gain any rights such as federalism or
autonomy although I am absolutely sure that any
autonomy or federalism or any other rights within
the borders of the states that occupy Kurdistan
would end up as failure and would not have any
result because those kind of solutions are like a
marriage contract that needs the agreement of both
sides in order to succeed that is for federalism to
succeed in Iraq both the Arab people and Kurdish
people must agree to it. However, although the
Kurdish people have agreed to federalism, I don’t
think there is one Iraqi truly believes in it, that
is to have separate governments and armies in
Baghdad and Hawler.
In order to reach that stage of acceptance much more
blood would be shed and that is why in this case I
am with building walls rather than igniting wars and
fighting because I believe in all the human and
heaven laws that came for the happiness of people
and regard a Kurdish human being and any other human
more important than states and their borders. In
this regard Imam Shafii, God bless him said: Your
opinion is wrong but probably right, my opinion is
right but probably wrong. And I from the bottom of
my heart wish that the way of the Democratic Party
of Kurdistan leads to safety, liberation of the
Kurdish people and independence of Kurdistan because
that is my demand and the demand of 40 million Kurds
including the members of the Democratic Party of
Kurdistan.
Dr Jawad Mella
President of Kurdistan National Congress
Kurdistan National Congress-KNC
WKA, Palingswick House, 241 King Street, London W6
9LP, UK
Tel: 0208 748 7874, Fax: 0208 7416436, Mobile: 07768
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e-mail: wka@knc.org.uk
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