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

defeat in the famous battle of Handreen in May 1966
(23)… and also the failure of their huge conspiracy to
divide the ranks of the Kurdish revolution.
As for the government of Tahir Yahia, which was
formed in the aftermath of the 5th of June War between
the Arabs and Israel, it declared in speeches the intention
to carry out the agreement of 29 June. However, in
reality, it carried on as all other Iraqi governments to
impede any attempts for agreement.
On 17 July 1968 the Baath Party carried out another
military coup and removed Abdulrahman Arif from the
power, and appointed Ahmad Hassan Al-Bakir as the
ruler of Iraq.
After failing in resolving the Kurdish question in Iraq
militarily, and failing also in wavering the unity of the
ranks of the Kurds, the Baathist government issued the
declaration of 11th March 1970, which included awarding
the Kurdish people the autonomy after a transitional period
of four years – such a long period for the implementation
of the autonomy was in reality a clear sign for the evil
intentions of the Iraqi government – in order to kill off
the revolution by other ways, which included the attempt
to assassinate the leader, Barzani, and thus throwing back
the Kurdish cause to its starting point. That is why the
government never started the implementation of the
declaration and carried out successive conspiracies. All
attempts to assassinate Mella Mustafa in Haji Omeran
failed. As did the attempt to assassinate his son Idris in
Baghdad. As soon as the transitional period expired the
government forces were ready militarily, politically and
internationally to strike at the Kurdish revolution. On
the other hand the government succeeded in achieving
several of its aims by weakening the Kurdish revolution
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