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The First Conference of the Kurdistan Students Union - Baghdad, 1962

The first conference of the Kurdistan Students Union was held in secret in March 1962 in Baghdad, due to several political developments in the region as well as changes in the internal structure of the organization.


Reasons for holding the conference

After the situation changed in Iraq, relations between the Kurdish leadership and the President of the Republic of Iraq, Abdul Karim Qasim, deteriorated, and on September 11, 1961, you made the decision to launch the September National Revolution against the government's oppression.

With the outbreak of the revolution, party and organizational work once again took a clandestine form, and activities continued in secret. The Iraqi government began expelling and arresting members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and the arrests included members of the Kurdistan Students Union extensively, especially those who were studying in colleges in Baghdad and southern Iraq.

During this period, a large number of members of the Kurdistan Students Union, from the organization’s leadership down, joined the revolution and went to the mountains of Kurdistan.


Conference management

As a result of the arrest and martyrdom of some of its leaders and members in March 1962, and in order to reorganize and assess the situation imposed on the organization, the Kurdistan Students Union held a secret conference in Baghdad and issued several resolutions. Among the conference resolutions was support for September Revolution Attention was given to the professional and academic problems of Kurdistan students, where Haider Hamza continued his struggle within the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union as secretary, and a new secretariat was elected by the conference delegates as follows:

 

1- Sorour Kaka Hama

2- Mamoun Al-Dabbagh

3- Ahmed Sharif, for you

4- Haider Hamza

5- Fuad Mulla Mahmoud

6- Adel Nasser

7- Tayeb Jabbar Barwari

8- Hekmat Khanqini.

The most important decisions of the conference were to support the Kurdish revolution and its leader, and to provide all possible assistance to the Peshmerga forces; to organize new students joining the ranks of the revolution; and to encourage the participation of Kurdish students in professional and academic organizations.


Sources and footnotes:

1- Irfan Aziz Aziz, Kangaroo and Kanafakani, Kiti Qatabiyani, Kurdistan, Chapi, (Hawler-Chakhani) ڕۆژهەڵات-2012), no. 35.

*- I'm going to have a conference, I'm going to have a phone in my room, and I'm going to have a conference on my phone. In France, there is a study in Kurdistan, where it is written in Arabic and English. Majid Hassan Ali, The Kurdish Student Movement in Iraq (1926-1970), Master’s Thesis/Al-Saladin University in Erbil 2008, Spears Publishing, (Holler - Haji Hashem Press), p. 146.

2- He is a noble man for you. He is very honorable and kind. He was very kind to you. Nohhhhhhhk, Bahrkhihhkhem, Chaphihhkhem, (Holler-Chapakhani-Richhh-ehat - 2016), no. 105.

3- Sasan Aouni, Kurdistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Affairs, (Holler-Chapkhani Ministry of Foreign Affairs - 1998), no. 23; Majid Hassan Ali, previous source, p. 146.


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