Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

Introduction
Although I have written this book of mine more than
twenty years ago, the issues I have stated and changes I
anticipated as well as my views regarding the international
and regional relations were all proven to be right. Also
the subject of the book remains important and temporary
as it is regarding the independence of Kurdistan, which
the Kurdish people are still struggling to achieve. The
non-achievement of the independence for Kurdistan up
to now is due to several internal and external factors.
Hence the question that I would like to ask our Kurdish
people is that why did the Vietnamese manage within
ten years of struggle to force their freedom and inflict
defeat upon the Americans who have the mightiest military
powers in the world? Why did the Algerians also manage
just within ten years of struggle to force their freedom
and inflict defeat upon the French who have one of the
mightiest military powers in the world? This is at a time
that the Kurdish people have not been complacent with
their duties and the sacrifices they have made were not
less than those of the Vietnamese and the Algerians.
That is why I am absolutely convinced that the main
problem of the Kurdish people is the fact that there is no
Kurdish leadership free and independent in its decisions
from the states that occupy Kurdistan. Indeed the
liberation of Kurdistan can never be achieved from Tehran,
Ankara, Damascus or Baghdad, and anyone who depends
on any of those Capitals would not get a result better
than the fate of the September Revolution under the
command of the late Mella Mustafa Barzani and his still
vivid experience. The revolution commanded by him,
during its 14 years from 1961 to 1975, achieved a lot of
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