Reasons for holding the conference:
The peaceful situation in Southern Kurdistan, as agreed on March 11, 1970, did not last long, and gradually the Baghdad government reneged on its promises, and the revolutionary leadership became more desperate than ever and distanced itself from the government, until war broke out between the two sides again in 1974. This situation undoubtedly had a great impact on the work of the public organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, especially the Kurdistan Qutbist Union, as its work and organizations covered most of the regions of Iraq.
After the event The seventh congress of the Kurdistan Qutbist Union, due to the unfavorable situation, could not achieve its goal, as it was decided to hold an annual congress. This situation occurred after Algiers Agreement The March 6, 1975, and the defeat of the September National Revolution made the situation more complicated, as the internal party organizations in southern Kurdistan were completely destroyed and a large number of Iraqi Kurds fled to neighboring countries, especially Iran.
Despite Algiers Agreement and the failure of the revolution, efforts to revive the Kurdistan Qutabi Union did not stop, on December 16, 1975, the first secret organization of the Kurdistan Qutabi Union was established by Leader Mulla Husên Avdel in the city of Zakho. This secret organization was able to develop its activities in a short time and became a platform for conveying the voice of the revolution to the people of Southern Kurdistan, this secret organization ended after the exposure and execution of Leader Mulla Ismail on April 23, 19761(1).
The work and activities of the Kurdistan Qutabi Union organizations were very limited due to the strict supervision of refugees in Iran, until the monarchy collapsed in 1979 and the Islamic Republic of Iran replaced it. This change in Iranian government gave refugees some freedom to work. The Kurdistan Qutabi Union organizations regrouped and on May 17, 1979, they held a large meeting in the Iranian city of Karaj under the name of the Kurdistan Qutabi Union. At this meeting, a new secretariat for the Iranian organization of the Kurdistan Qutabi Union was established, consisting of: Dilshad Barzani, Comrade Zakaria Akrey, Sherko Burhan Dizey, Helmet Ali Abdullah, Seyfeddin Rashid Sindi, Taha Abdulrahman Barwari and Haji Abdulrahman Darwish(2).
After this extensive meeting, in 1979, the Iranian Organization of the Qutabi Union of Kurdistan published the magazine (Dengî Qutabi) in Kurdish and the magazine (Seday Danesh Amouz) in Persian(3).
This meeting paved the way for the 1981 Conference of the Kurdistan Qutabi Union. The conference was held in the city of Karaj with the participation of 67 members and the Kurdistan Qutabi Union Refugee League was established, the publication (Deng Uttanaran), the organ of the Iranian organization of the Kurdistan Qutabi Union, became the organ of the refugee league(4), and the officials and officers of the league were elected by vote and were as follows:
1- Haji Abdulrahman Darwish – head of the League
2- Taha Abdulrahman Barwari – the League's executive
3- Zenoun Younis Rojbayani – League official
4- Haji Ramadan Akrey – the leader of the League (5).
After the establishment of the Kurdistan Qutbist Refugee League, the organization expanded and became very active, and this league held its second conference in 1982 and its third conference in 1983(6).
After this conference, the situation of the organizations of the Qutbist Union of Kurdistan did not change much until 1986.
Although the refugee organizations of the Democratic Youth Union of Kurdistan and even the leagues of Hewler, Sulaymaniyah and Kirkuk had been working actively after 1983 and had played an influential role alongside the organizations of the Qutbist Union of Kurdistan, for this reason and due to the closeness of their struggles, the party leadership and the secretariat of both organizations decided in 1986 to unite and hold a joint conference of the two organizations (7).
Conference Organization:
From August 28 to 30, 1986, in the village of Xinêra in the province of Erbil, under the slogan (towards unity to overthrow the regime and end the war so that we can study in the field of peace and democracy), a joint conference of the Qutabi Union and the Democratic Youth of Kurdistan began its work. The aim of this conference was to unify the Qutabi Union of Kurdistan and the Democratic Youth of Kurdistan into a single organization (8).
At the beginning, the report of the Conference Oversight Committee was read, followed by the President's message. Masoud Barzani, the article of the Political School of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the letter of the liberationists of the Kurdistan Nations (Kûk) and the Liberation Secretariat, were read (9).
At this conference, a committee of 15 people was elected for the executive board of the Qutabi Union and Democratic Youth of Kurdistan as follows:
1- Kristof Yelda Torxan, known as Rebwar Yelda, Secretary.
2- Kurdistan Pirdawd Qadir
3- Haji Abdulrahman
4- Ibrahim Mustafa
5- Abdullah Khalo Ali
6- Ismail Ibrahim Fatah, known as Simko Amedi
7- Firyad Shafi Muhammad, known as Firyad Barzani
8- Teyar Selim
9- Ahmed Mullah Qasim
10- Adil Ali
11- Azad Fayiq Xefoor, Dijwar Fayiq
12- Nawzad Muhammad Najib
13- Rifat Said Muhammad Amin
14- Ihsan Abdullah Qasim, known as Ihsan Amedi
15- Rizgar Kemeki, known as Rizgar Kurdistanî(10).
Alternate members of the executive board:
1- Ahmed the Thief
2- Prophet Ahmed
3- Hesen Muhammad Hesen, known as Hesen Shabiba.
At the first board meeting At a meeting held on September 20, 1986 at the headquarters of the political school of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the presence of comrades Idris Barzani and Fazil Mirani, members of the political school, the Secretariat of the Qutabi Union and the Democratic Sons of Kurdistan were elected as follows:
1- Rebwar Yalda - Secretary.
2- Haji Abdulrahman – Member of the Secretarial School.
3- Ibrahim Mustafa Mihemed - Member of the Secretarial School.
4- Firyad Barzani – Member of the Secretariat School.
5- Abdullah Xelo – Member of the Secretarial School.
The following were appointed as executive board members:
1- Adil Ali – Head of the Erbil League.
2- Dijwar Fayiq – Head of the Kirkuk League.
3- Nawzad Muhammad Najib – Head of the Sulaymaniyah League.
4- Refat Saeed Mihemed Amin - Head of the Aware League.
5- Simko Amedi – Head of the Duhok-Nineveh League (12).
Many decisions were made at the conference, including:
The magazine Peshkewtin, the first issue of which was published in December 1987 with 16 pages, the last issue of the mountain struggle phase, issue 22, was published in November 1990 (13). The path should be paved for the unification of the Kurdistan Qutb Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. Publishing articles and activities on the Voice of Kurdistan Radio. Support May Revolution and the Front (Cud) and the opposition to the policy of Arabization of Southern Kurdistan(14).
One of the most important political actions of this period was the issuance of a statement of support by the International Union of Students and Youth (I.U.S.) in 1987 at the Havana congress for the Kurdish cause and the Qutabi Union and the Democratic Youth of Kurdistan. This Union was active in 127 countries and regions. In July 1989, they participated in the Pyongyang Congress organized by the World Union of Students and Youth (15).
In the field of education, for the first time in the history of Kurdistan, they were responsible for building schools and providing teachers and teaching materials in the liberated areas of Kurdistan (16).
Source:
- Sasan Ewni, The Qutbist Union of Kurdistan: Some Aspects of Struggle and History, (Hewlêr, Ministry of Education Press, 1998), p 70.
- Luqman Xerîb, Martyr Hacî Ebdulrehman: A Glorious Era in the History of the Student and Youth Movement of Kurdistan, (Hewlêr, Rewşenbîrî Press, 2003), p 68.
- Musa Ehmed, Journalism of the Kurdistan Qutb Union, (Hewlêr, Ministry of Education Press, 1998), pp. 31-32.
- - Sasan Ewni, source previous, p. 75.
- - Luqman Xerib, source ago, 68.
- Sasan Ewni, source previous, p. 78.
- Irfan Aziz Aziz, Congresses and Conferences of the Qutb Union of Kurdistan, Edition 1, (Hewlêr - Rojhelat Publishing House-2012), p 87.
- Greetings for the 8th anniversary of the August Conference of 28-30 August 1986, Brotherhood Newspaper, Organ of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan – United, issue 2030, (Hewlêr, Monday, 29.08.1994), p 8.
- Sirwan Osman, A Bright History and an Unbroken Caravan, (Hewlêr - Ministry of Education Press - 2014), p 15.
- Irfan Aziz, previous source, p. 89-90.
- Same source, p. 90.
- Sasan Ewni, source previous, p. 118.
- Moses Ahmed, pp. 4 – 6.
- Irfan Aziz, previous source, p. 91 – 92.
- Sasan Ewni, source previous, p. 122.
- Same source, p. 29, 26.
