Pre-Congress Situation:
After the fifth congress of the Kurdistan Students Union (KSU), an emergency situation prevailed over the organization. The main organizing committee was established in Baghdad. To solve this problem, a central organizing office should be formed on both sides. This office was headquartered in Baghdad and was supposed to continue its work until the sixth congress of the Kurdistan Students Union.
On March 11, 1970, the March 11 Agreement was signed between the revolutionary leadership and the Iraqi government. After the agreement, the activities of the party and mass organizations entered a new stage. Thanks to this agreement, freedom of political and organizational work developed and the wings that had dominated the party organizations faded Collaborative and open work began.
The Kurdistan Students Union took advantage of this situation and opened its branches in Baghdad and all Kurdish cities.
The new situation led the Kurdistan Students Union to hold a new congress, as the party had recently held its eighth congress. The central organization office of the Kurdistan Students Union decided to hold its sixth congress in order to reorganize itself and strengthen its ranks.
The congress was originally scheduled to be held in Sulaimani, but later moved to the village of Nawprdan, where the eighth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) was held Congress were notified4
Conducting the Congress:
After the preparations, the sixth congress of the Kurdistan Students Union was held from July 15 to 18, 1970, in a free atmosphere of the liberated areas of the September Revolution, in the village of Nawprdani in Erbil province, under the slogan (Peace - Science - Brotherhood). The representative began his work. The first speech delivered was that of President Mustafa Barzani and was read by Brigadier Ruken Aziz Akreyi. The speech of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party was read by Dr. Mahmoud Osman.
At the beginning of the congress, the executive committee was elected as follows:
1- Adel Murad, also known as Adel Faily
2- Anwar Abdullah, also known as Anwar Rais
3- Ranj Nuri Shaweis
4- Farhad Auni
5- Abdulqadir Mohammed Amin
6- Arif Tayfoor
7- Nuri Akreyi
8- Jarjis Hassan
9- Sabah Akreyi
10- Saadi Khalil
11- Adel Leylani
12- Minister Pirdawd Qadir
13- Mohammed Haji
14- Yousef Mawloud Qasab
15- Osman Salih Osman, known as Osman Khoshnaw
16- Jalal Khoshnaw
17- Akram Ahmad
18- Ezadin Rashid Haji Badri, known as Sherko Sindhi
19- Haji Mohammed Kret
20- Jawad Mohammed, alias Jawad Sherwani
21- Abdullah Mohammed, known as Abdullah Bawani.
After discussing the issues of the congress and evaluating the draft program and internal rules that had been radically changed, the executive committee meeting was held on the 18th of this month and the new secretariat was elected by the votes of the congress members as follows:
1- Anwar Abdullah, President
2- Jarjis Hassan Abdullah, Vice President
3- Farhad Auni - Secretary
4- Jalal Salim Khoshnaw - Member of the Secretariat
5- Adel Fazel Leylani - Member of the Secretariat
7- Ranj Nuri Shaweis - Member of the Secretariat
8- Yousef Mawlod Qasab - Member of the Secretariat
7. President Mustafa Barzani was unanimously elected as the Honorary President of the Students Union.
A number of important decisions and recommendations were issued at the congress, such as: Developing Kurdish culture. Opening of educational courses for Peshmerga. Support for the March 11 agreement. Identification of students to be sent abroad. Support the opening of universities and colleges in Kurdistan. Opening of seven branches of the Kurdistan Students Union in the designated areas, which were: Baghdad, Erbil, Mosul, Duhok, Sulaimani, Kirkuk and Diyala branches.
The sixth congress was not held without problems as expected. When Anwar Abdullah was elected president, a number of members of the executive committee participated in protest on the grounds that he had been given more votes and the number of members had been increased unusually They did not hold the first meeting of the executive committee. According to the program and bylaws, if a majority of the executive committee members are dissatisfied with the work of the president or his deputy, the election can be repeated, so the executive committee at its meeting in February 1971 In the absence of Anwar Abdullah and Qadir Hamademin, new elections were held and Adel Murad Faily was elected president of the Kurdistan Students Union. After a while, Jarjis Hassan and Adel Fazel Leylani went abroad to study. As the date of the seventh congress, which was scheduled to be held in 1972, was approaching, no one else was appointed as vice president.
After the congress, based on the March 11 agreement, Kurdish mass organizations became members of the central organizations. The Kurdistan Students Union became a member of the Iraqi National Students Union The Secretariat Bureau also became a member of the Executive Bureau of the PUK.
Sources and Margins
1- Irfan Aziz Aziz, Congress and Conferences of Kurdistan Students Union, 1st Edition, (Erbil-Rojhelat Printing House-2012), p.
2. Ibid., p.
3- Sasan Auni, Kurdistan Students Union: Some Aspects of Struggle and History, (Erbil, Ministry of Education Printing House, 1998), p. 24; Irfan Aziz Aziz, ibid., p.
4- Irfan Aziz Aziz, previous source, p.
5- Memoir of the 26th Anniversary of the Sixth Congress of the First Union, Khabati Qutabyan Magazine, Organ of the Kurdistan Students Union, No. 13, Third Session, July 1996, p. 4; Irfan Aziz Aziz, previous source, p. 58; Sasan Auni, previous source, p.
6- Al-Mu'tamr al-Sads, United Students Union of Iraqi Kurdistan, Al-Takhi Newspaper, No. 496, Baghdad, Dar al-Jahz Printing House, Tuesday, July 27, 1970, p. 3; Sasan Auni, previous source, p.
7. Irfan Aziz Aziz, previous source, pp. 59-60; Hama Salih Farhadi, A Page in the History of the Kurdistan Students Union, Peshkewtan newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Students and Youth Union, No. 27, early July 1992, p.
8- Sasan Auni, previous source, p.
9. Ibid., p.
10. Irfan Aziz Aziz, previous source, pp. 62-6
11. Ibid., p.
