Situation and reason
The agreement of June 29, 1966 between the leadership of the revolution and the Iraqi government was blocked by the officers of the government. These officers used the former KDP Politburo group in Baghdad against the revolution. This was achieved by arming their supporters and establishing their bases in some areas where the Peshmerga Forces were located. Abdulrahman Bazaz was also removed from the post of Prime Minister and Tahir Yahya was appointed. The new Prime Minister visited President Mustafa Barzani with a government delegation at the end of August 1967 and spoke with President Barzani about implementing the June 29 agreement and arming the gangs, especially the supporters of the old Political School group.
After a while, it became clear that the government had no intention of arming the guerrillas, and on the contrary, without the consent of the prime minister, their support from the authorities was increasing, which led to the resumption of hostilities between the guerrillas and the Peshmerga, which led to the cooling of relations between the Revolutionary Leadership and the government, and subsequently to the outbreak of war on April 15, 1968.
On July 17, 1968, the Ba'ath Party carried out a coup d'état and Ahmed Hassan Bakr became president. The regime reduced its direct war against the Kurds and began encouraging and arming the guerrillas against the revolution. At that time, the guerrilla war intensified. After several battles and clashes, the government guerrillas were finally completely defeated on October 18, 1968 and surrendered to the government headquarters in Kirkuk.
After the defeats, in September 1969, the government took the initiative to reach an agreement with the revolutionary leadership and sent a delegation to New York. After several meetings between Baghdad and New York, finally, after the visit of Iraqi Vice President Saddam Hussein to New York and a meeting with President Mustafa Barzani on March 11, 1970, an agreement was signed between the Iraqi Ba'ath government and the revolutionary leadership, and as a result, it was recognized that the Kurds had started the revolution for what it was, which consisted of the deprivation of the political and national rights of the Kurdish people in Southern Kurdistan.
At the congress
After the March 11 agreement, a conference was held from July 1 to 6, 1970, in the village of Nawprdan, with the participation of 488 representatives, due to the situation. This is considered the third congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to be held openly. Several delegations from different Iraqi parties participated, including the delegation of the Ba's Arab Socialist Party, the delegation of the Communist Party of the Democratic Nation, the delegation of the Arab Socialist Movement, the delegation of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Kurdish parties from neighboring countries, the Kurdish Democratic Party in Lebanon, the Association of Kurdish Students in Europe and the United Nations, and among the personalities present at the congress was Kamiran Bedirxan.
The Congress began with a speech by President Mustafa Barzani, followed by a policy report from the Political School of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) read in Arabic by Habib Muhammad Karim, Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. At the end of the eighth congress, on July 10, 1970, the Central Committee concluded its work with a final statement by the press and its representatives.
The composition of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) according to the internal regulations of the eighth congress was as follows: (Branch, Organizational Committee, Internal Committee, Branch Committee, Central Committee, Political School, Secretary of the Central Committee, President), as well as the Central Supervisory Committee consisting of one member of the Political School and 2 members of the Central Committee.
The congress approved the program and internal regulations, unanimously elected President Mustafa Barzani as the party's leader, and elected a new Central Committee for the KDP, consisting of the following people:
1. Habib Muhammad Karim, secretary
2. Dr. Mehmud Osman
3. Idris Barzani
5. Salih Yusfi
6. Ali Abdullah
7. Nouri Shawes
8. Sami Abdulrahman
9. Hashim Hesen Akrey
10. Ismail Mela Aziz
11. Colonel Aziz Akrey
12. Fakhir Mergasuri
13. Faris Bawe
14. Rashid Sindi
15. Shakib Akreyi
16. Abdulwahab Atroshi
17. Ali Qasim Shengali
18. The Tree of Tawfiq
19. Abdul Suran Qarani
20. Sediq Effendi
21. The Wisdom of Ismail Haqi.
Alternate members of the Central Committee:
1. Rashid Arif Abdulrahman
2. Ali Hajar
3. Naaman Jesus
4. Sheikh Reza Gulani
5. Cercis Fethullah Shamas
6. Muhammad Mullah Qadir
7. Shaban Said Muhammad
8. Hamid Barwari
9. Qadir Jabari.
The Political School was also composed of these friends:
1. Habib Muhammad Karim, Secretary of the Central Committee
2. Dr. Mehmûd Osman, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee
3. Aziz Akrey
4. Sami Abdulrahman
5 Saleh Yousfi, Head of the School of Public Organization
6. Ali Abdullah
7. Nouri Sadiq Shawis,
Meanwhile, the old group of the Political School, which had been operating under the name of the KDP until now, held its seventh congress in Baghdad, discussed its dissolution and return to the KDP, decided by a majority vote to dissolve itself, and then contacted the KDP through Branch Four. Masoud Barzani and asked him to convey their request to President Mustafa Barzani. After President Barzani was informed of their requests, he issued an amnesty for them. On August 7, 1970, Jalal Talabani came to Haji Omaran and met with President Barzani there. After several meetings, on October 1 of the same year, a general amnesty was unanimously granted to them and they returned to the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
Source:
- History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Congress and Conference (Program and Internal Regulations), Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Volume 1, (Hewlêr - Roxana Publishing House - 2021).
- Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Committee Archives
