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

Ocalan only and cut all relations with the movement and
the past and the future of the Kurdish people… until
they came to a point of calling the historical flag of
Kurdistan with the sun on it as the flag of Mr. Kemal
Burqai!! (one of the leaders of a Party competing with
the KWP). This despite the fact that the flag of Kurdistan
was raised by all the Kurdish revolutions since the start
of the past century. The flag was also raised by the
martyr Qazi Muhammad, the President of the Kurdistan
Republic in city of Mahabad, the capital of the Republic,
when he declared the Republic in 1946, and the sun on
the Kurdistan flag has been a Kurdish symbol for more
than five thousand years.
In addition the KWP played on the emotions of the
Kurdish people by announcing the motto of independent
Kurdistan from Damascus!! But everyone knows how
the Damascus regime dealt with the Kurdish people in
Syria using policies of racist ethnic oppression and denying
all national, social and political rights for the Kurds.
They don’t even recognize the existence of the Kurdish
people in Syria despite that the population of the Kurds
is more than two millions. So, the motto of independent
Kurdistan was not for the independence of Kurdistan in
reality, but for personal and partisan interests. When
they made gains and a huge number of masses recruited
into their Party from all parts of Kurdistan, the KWP
omitted the independence of Kurdistan from their program
without anyone objecting, because their members had
been brainwashed with Marxist slogans and animosity
against the west, and even against the whole world as if
the KWP is there to free the humanity from the western
hegemony!! This is before liberating oneself. As a result
of these policies the KWP made the countries that occupy
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