On The Anniversary of Founding of Kurdistan KDP-Rojhelat

On The Anniversary of The Founding of Kurdistan Democratic Party-Rojhalat — Kurdish leader Qazi Muhammad, the the founder of KDPI party and the Republic of Mahabad in Iranian Kurdistan in 1946. Photo: Archive/SM

Ardishir Rashidi-Kalhur | Exclusive to iKurd.net

Message on the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan in Rojhelat. Seventy five years ago, the visionary leaders of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, stood tall at Chwar-Chra Square in Rojhelat, to solemnly declare their support for the dreams and democratic aspirations of the Kurdish Nation. Aware of the watchful eyes of their enemies, with dauntless courage and resolute determination, these brave men and women were never deterred in speaking out and claiming for themselves the legitimate rights of the people of Kurdistan. It was true seventy five yeas ago and it remains true to this day.

The people of Kurdistan are entitled to full ownership of our national homeland, our history, and our culture. We as a people are entitled to the full rights of self-government and self-determination, and to steering the course of affairs within our own beloved nation. We seek to uphold our ideals by the Democratic principles on which the Democratic Party of Kurdistan in Rojhelat has so long ago been founded.

At its core spirit, the people of Kurdistan strongly reject all forms of Iranian military, para-military and mercenaries in civilian and religious clothing being present in the Kurdish inhabited regions. The roles these militant groups have played against the Kurdish population has been arbitrary arrest, imprisonment, mock trial, and executions of brave and honorable Kurds who have fought discrimination and injustice at the hands of the Iranian Central governments and its agents. Usurpation of Kurdistan natural and human resources and imposition of outdated and primitive culture of religious-nationalism by the chauvinistic regimes in Iran has persisted since the Kurdistan Declaration of Independence on January 22, 1946.

With an eye towards the future, and aware of the continuous strife that pursuing and achieving its goals for the future of Kurdistan entail, KDP-Rojhelat shall remain committed to the universal democratic values as its guiding principles. Through education of the people, transparency at the highest levels of government, due diligence resulting in good, honest governance and collaborative efforts which reaches out to all other Kurdish grassroots movements across the world, and to political parties and support groups of every kind, Kurdistan Democratic Party of Rojhelat, shall forever remain inclusive and absolutely resolute in its endeavors to secure an Independent and Free Kurdistan; a Kurdistan that is both democratic and sustainable for long term and for generations to come.

In this our humble effort, we all should feel a moral and national debt of gratitude which pays respect to those who seventy-five years ago, stood tall and sacrificed their lives in defense of our Kurdish national rights in Chwar-Chra. Since that time, many other heroes, among them our Peshmergas, our political decedents, our intellectuals, our human right activists and our leaders, all brave souls who have nobly sacrificed their very lives for a purpose that goes beyond any one of us, for a dream that remains alive in the beating hearts of all living Kurds, that is the cause of freedom, the cause of peace, and the cause of just independence for all Kurds and the Greater Kurdistan.

Let this letter on the 75th anniversary of the founding of Kurdistan Democratic Party-Rojhelat, serve as a petition to the highest level of leadership in the Iranian government, that the people of Kurdistan request peaceful withdrawal of all the Iranian military, religious, merchants and agents of cultural assimilations from all the Kurdish regions in compliance with the spirit of the founding of the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Rojhelat, and as guaranteed by the Charter of the United Nations that recognizes the rights of People to peaceful political disassociation from abusing powers and freedom to determine their own political future through the Rights to Self-Determination.

Ardishir Rashidi-Kalhur, the President of Kurdish American Education Society, Los Angeles, U.S.

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