Situation and preparation

On August 2, 1990, the Iraqi army invaded Kuwait, and this invasion brought the coalition forces to the front, and on December 17, 1991, the Iraqi army was expelled from Kuwait by the coalition forces and severely defeated. This defeat of the Iraqi army created a favorable environment for the expansion of the activities of the Iraqi opposition forces. During this period, the leadership of the Kurdistan Front, along with other Iraqi parties, began political and military movements inside Iraq.

In this context, the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) held several extensive meetings, including a meeting in early February 1991, which was attended by members of the old and new central committees, numbering about fifty members. In the meeting, it was decided to make preparations for the return to the territory of Kurdistan and then launch a general uprising. In this meeting, duties were divided under the command of Mas'ud Barzani and forces were divided into three wings: the Hewler wing, the Duhok wing, the Mosul wing, and the Sulaymaniyah and Kirkuk wings. After all the preparations, the Kurdistan Uprising began on March 5, 1991, and by March 21, 1991, all areas of Kurdistan were liberated from the regime.

After the 1991 uprising against the Iraqi regime and the people's congress of Southern Kurdistan and the establishment of the Kurdistan National Council and the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Central Committee decided at its March meeting to hold the Eleventh Congress of the KDP. For this purpose, a preparatory committee was formed consisting of Muhammad Mullah Qadir, France Hariri, Ramzi Shaban, Khurshid Shere, Necmeddin Yusfi, Sheikhallah Ibrahim, Barzan Mullah Khalid, Kemal Hesen, Nejat Hesen, Habib Kalash and Icra Said. In June 1993, most of the preparations for the congress were completed and the members of the congress were elected. Three parties decided to unite with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP): the Kurdistan Unity Party (HSK-PASOK-People's Party), the Kurdistan Democratic Union and the Feyli Muslim Kurds Movement. The title (Yekgirti) was changed for the second time to the Kurdistan Democratic Party - United, with minor changes.

Organizing a congress

From August 16 to 26, 1993, the eleventh congress was held in the Yellow Hall of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, with the participation of 2,167 members. For the first time, a significant number of women, 124 members, participated in the congress. News of this congress was published daily in the media.

The Congress was held under the slogan (Peace, Freedom and Democracy), and the political report was delivered by the President. Masoud Barzani The congress also made extensive changes to the programs and methods in accordance with the new situation. Several decisions were made at the congress, the most important of which was to return the bodies of the late Barzani and Idris Barzani for burial in Barzan, and it was also decided to facilitate the return of the largest number of refugees in Iran.

The Eleventh Congress approved the federalism of the Kurdistan Region and supported the United National Congress of Iraq, whose goal was to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime. On the foreign media level, journalists Amina Soula and Fatima Azouz from the Republic of Tunisia were invited as guests to the Congress, and some of the guests at the Congress were George Bicard, members of the US Congress, David Phillip, President of the American Human Rights Association, Lieutenant General Hassan Naqib and Dr. Ahmed Chalabi, President of the United National Congress of Iraq, Tahsin Maala, Adnan Muhammad Nouri, Aziz Aliyan, Muhammad Abdul Jabar, Hani Fokeyki, Muhammad Muhammad Ali, Adil Abdul Mahdi, Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Munziz Lewis, Secretary of the Socialist Party of Iraq.

The composition of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) was based on the internal regulations of the eleventh congress, consisting of a cell, main cell, organizational committee, regional committee, league committee, central committee, political school, vice president and president, and the Central Committee for Evaluation and Supervision was also directly elected by the Congress. This is the last time that the Central Committee for Evaluation and Supervision was directly elected by the members of the congress and given the status of leadership members, because they received the trust of the congress.

The institutions of the KDP in 1993 included: the Central Organization School, the Central School of Culture and the Press, the Central Military School, the Central Administration School, the Central School of Finance, the Central School of Public and Professional Organizations, the Central School of National Relations, the Central School of Foreign Relations, and the Central School of Studies.

Members of the Central Committee of the Eleventh Congress:

1. Nechirvan Barzani

2. Sami Abdulrahman

3. Cewher Namiq Salim

4. Hişyar Zebari

5. Fazil Mirani

6. Yunus Rojbayani

7. France Hariri

8. Roj Nuri Shawes

9. Qadir Qadir

10. Saad Abdullah

11. Izzedin Barwari

12. Hemey Haji Mahmud

13. Karim Shengali

14. Dr. Cercis Hesen

15. Kamal Kirkuki

16. Ali Shengali

17. Qadir Jabari

18. The Shepherd

19. Sayid Kake

20. Omer Botani

21. Azad Berwari

22. Jalil Feyli

23. Shawkat Sheikh Yazdin

24. Omar Osman Mergasuri

25. Salaheddin Ibrahim Qadir, Salah Delo

26. Lightning Nuri Shawes

27. Ramzi Sha'ban

28. The servant Karim

29. Dervish Axa

30. Zaim Ali

31. Abdulaziz Tayyib

32. Nizamuddin Gili

33. Arif Taifur

34. Massoud Salehi

35. Muhammad Mullah Qadir

36. Abdullah Agrin

37. Shirin Amedi.

Alternate members of the Central Committee:

1. Mahmoud Muhammad

2. The Golden Guardian

3. Amin Qadir

4. Dr. Nasih Khafur

5. Akbar Heydar

6. Azad Qardaxi

7. Barzan Mullah Khalid

8. Kemal Hesen Çewmar

9. Nuri Hame Ali.

At the congress, the members of the Central Committee for Evaluation and Supervision were elected by direct votes by the members, and they were Falakeddin Kakeyi, Habib Muhammad Karim, Rashid Sindi, Ismail Mela Aziz, Ali Caf, Dr. Muhammad Salih Cuma, Muhammad Meruf, Muhammad Qazi and Ali Qasim Shengali.

By the members of the congress, unanimously for the third time, the President Masoud Barzani was elected as the new president of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unity and Ali Abdullah was elected as the vice president, then at the Central Committee meeting, from 29 to 31 August 1993, a new board of the Political School was elected, which was also Nechirvan Barzani, Cewher Namiq Salim, Sami Abdulrehman, Hişyar Zebari, Fazil Mirani, Dr. Roj Nuri Shaweys, Dr. Cercis Hesen, Azad Berwari, Zeim Ali, Hemey Haji Mehmud and Mulazim Karim.

At this congress, for the second time in the history of the KDP, the President Masoud Barzani The Bazani Medal was awarded to 9 leaders, commanders, and friends of Barzani.

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