Reasons for holding the conference:
The peaceful situation in southern Kurdistan, agreed upon on March 11, 1970, did not last long. The Baghdad government gradually reneged on its promises, and the revolutionary leadership became more desperate than ever. This led to renewed war between the two sides in 1974. This situation undoubtedly had a significant impact on the work of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's mass organizations, particularly the Kurdistan Students' Union, whose organizational activities covered most of Iraq.
Following the Seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union, and due to unfavorable circumstances, the annual conference, as planned, was not held. This situation became even more complicated after the Algiers Agreement of March 6, 1975, and the setback of the September Revolution, which led to the complete collapse of local party organizations in southern Kurdistan and the displacement of large numbers of Iraqi Kurds to neighboring countries, particularly Iran.
Despite the Algiers Agreement and the setback to the revolution, efforts to revive the Kurdistan Students Union did not cease. On December 16, 1975, the first secret organization of the Kurdistan Students Union was re-established by Riber al-Mulla Hussein Avdal in Zakho. This secret organization was able to develop its activities in a short time and become a platform for conveying the voice of the revolution to the people of southern Kurdistan. This secret organization ended after its discovery and the execution of Riber al-Mulla Hussein Avdal on April 23, 1976 (1).
The activities of the Kurdistan Students Union were very limited due to the strict control imposed on refugees in Iran until the fall of the monarchy in 1979 and the Islamic Republic of Iran took its place. This change in the Iranian government gave the refugees some freedom to work, and on May 17, 1979, they held a meeting in the city of Karaj in Iran, under the name of the Kurdistan Students Union, in which a new secretariat for the Kurdistan Students Union was elected, which included: Dilshad Barzani, Zakaria Akri, Sherko Burhan Dze’i, Helmat Ali Abdullah, Saif Al-Din Rashid Sandi, Taha Abdul Rahman Barwari and Haji Abdul Rahman Darwish (2).
After this expanded meeting, in 1979, the organization issued for the Kurdistan Students Union two magazines, Dingi Qotabi (Voice of Students) in the Kurdish language and Sada Danish Amuz (Dengi Qotabi) in Persian (3).
This meeting paved the way for the Kurdistan Students Union Conference in 1981. The conference was held in Karaj with 67 members in attendance, and the Kurdistan Students Union Refugee Branch was established. The organization's official publication, "Dengê Qutabian" (4), became the mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Students Union Refugee Branch in Iran. The head and active members were elected by vote as follows:
1- Haji Abdulrahman Darwish - Branch Manager
2- Taha Abdulrahman Barwari - Active Member of the Branch
3- Thanoun Younis Hozbiani - branch working member
4- Haji Ramadan Akri - Active Member of Branch (5)
After the establishment of the Refugee Branch of the Kurdistan Students Union, its organizations expanded and became very active. The branch held its second conference in 1982 and its third conference in 1983 (6).
After this conference, and until 1986, the situation of the Kurdistan Students Union organizations did not change much, although the refugee branch organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union and even its branches in Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Kirkuk became active after 1983, and played an influential role with the Kurdistan Students Union organizations in 1986. Therefore, due to the closeness of their struggle, the party leadership and the secretariat of the two organizations decided in 1986 to merge and hold a joint conference for the two organizations (7).
The conference was held:
The joint conference of the Kurdistan Students Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union was held from August 28 to 30, 1986 in the village of Khneira, Erbil Governorate, under the slogan (Towards Unity to Overthrow the Regime and End the War So That We May Study in Peace and Democracy). Its work began with the attendance of 77 members. The goal of this conference was to unite the Kurdistan Students Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union into one organization (8).
At the beginning, the speech of the conference supervisory committee was read, followed by the telegram of President Masoud Barzani, the speech of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the message of the Kurdish nationalist free people (KOK) and the secretariat of Rizgari (9).
A body of 15 members was elected to the Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Students and Youth Union as follows:
1- Christoph Jalda Türkhan, known as Hippur Jalda, Secretary.
2- Kurdistan Berdaoud Qadir
3- Haji Abdul Rahman
4- Ibrahim Mustafa
5- Abdullah Khalou Ali
6- Ismail Ibrahim Fattah, also known as Simko Amidi
7- Faryad Shafie Muhammad, known as Faryad Barzani
8- Slim current
9- Ahmed Mulla Qasim
10- Adel Ali
11- Azad Faiq Ghafoor, known as Dzwar Faiq
12- Nawzad Muhammad Najib
13- Rifaat Saeed Mohammed Amin
14- Ihsan Abdullah Qasim, also known as Ihsan Amidi
15- Rizgar Kimki, known as Rizgar Kurdistan(11).
Reserve members of the Executive Committee:
1- Ahmed Dazkari
2- Prophet Ahmad
3- Hassan Muhammad Hassan, known as Hassan Shabiba (10).
At the first meeting of the Executive Committee held on September 20, 1986, at the headquarters of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the presence of comrades Idris Barzani and Fadhil Mirani, members of the Political Bureau, the Secretariat of the Kurdistan Students and Youth Union was chosen as follows:
1- Rebouard Yalda - Secretary.
2- Haji Abdul Rahman - Member of the Secretariat Office
3- Ibrahim Mustafa Muhammad - Member of the Secretariat Office
4- Faryad Barzani - Member of the Secretariat Office
5- Abdullah Khallou - Member of the Secretariat Office
Branch officials were also selected from among the members of the Executive Committee as follows:
1- Adel Ali - Head of Erbil Branch
2- Dzwar Faiq - Kirkuk Branch Manager
3- Nawzad Mohammed Najib - Head of the Sulaymaniyah branch
4- Rafat Saeed Mohammed Amin - Head of the Refugee Branch
5- Simko Amidi - Head of the Duhok-Nineveh Branch (12)
The conference issued a number of resolutions, including:
He published the magazine *Peşkewten* (Progress), with the first issue appearing in January 1987 in 16 pages. The last issue, issue number 22, was published during the period of the mountain struggle on November 3, 1990 (13). In preparation for the merger of the Kurdistan Students Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union, he broadcast articles and activities on Radio Voice of Kurdistan. He supported the Gulan Revolution and the National Democratic Front (JOD) and opposed the Arabization policy in southern Kurdistan (14).
Among the most important political activities at this stage was the issuance of a statement of support for the World Federation of Students and Youth at the Havana Conference in 1987 for the Kurdish cause and the Kurdistan Students and Youth Union. The Federation was active in 127 countries and regions, and they also participated in July 1989 in the Pyongyang Conference organized by the World Federation of Students and Youth (15).
In the field of education, for the first time in the history of the Kurds, they took responsibility for establishing schools and providing teachers and educational materials in the liberated areas of Kurdistan.
Sources and footnotes
1- Sasan Aouni, “Kurdistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs - 1998”, No. 70..
2- Luqman Ghareeb, the martyr of Haji Abdoula and Hamman Qanaghi, may God have mercy on him. 68.
3- Musa Ahmad, The Name of the People of Kurdistan, (Holler-Chakhani Ministry of Foreign Affairs - 1998), pp. 31-32..
4- Sasan Aouni, Sirjawi Pishaw, no. 75.
5- Luqman Gharib, Sirjawi Bishu, 68.
6- Sasan Aouni, Sirjawi Pishaw, no. 78.
7- Irfan Aziz Aziz, “Kanjar and Kanfa Kani” Qutabiyani, “Kurdistan”, “Chapter”, (Holer-Chapakhani) ڕۆژهەڵات-2012), no. 87.
8- He has a hashishthamin birah wahri kanfrani, 28-30, 1986. Democracy of Kurdistan - Yehkgartu, March 2030, (Hawler, Doushehmeh, 29 Abi 1994), no. 8.
9- Sirwan Othman, May 2014, No. 15.
10- Irfan Aziz, Sirjawi Bishu, LL. 89-90.
11- Heman Sirchao, no. 90.
12- Sasan Ayouni, Saharchavah Bishu, no. 118.
13- Musa Ahmad, l.l. 4-6.
14- Irfan Aziz, Sirjawi Bishu, LL. 91-92.
15- Sasan Ahoni, Saharchavah Pisho, no. 122.
16- Heman Sirchao, LL. 26,29.
