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

In addition to that the Iraqi authorities raided the homes
of Kurdish personalities and confiscated all published
documents concerning the Kurdish people and their
culture, and then burnt them as they burnt a lot of
government documents noting the existence and rights
of the Kurdish people. As soon as it was 1989 and the
agreement to stop the Iraqi-Iran war was signed, the
bleeding Kurdistan was left to suffer from horrible wounds
and its sadness for losing so many of its young, and the
ruin of homes and villages, and the destruction of its
historical and cultural sites.
The stopping of the war in itself caused a huge damage
to the fighting forces of the Southern and Eastern
Kurdistan, for the Iraqi regime was supplying the Kurdish
fighters who were fighting by its side against Iran; and
in a similar fashion the Iranian regime was supplying the
Kurdish fighters who were fighting by its side against
Iraq, then both Iraq and Iran regarded the role of the
Kurdish fighters as ended as the war between them
stopped.
The Kurdish organizations were in the state of total
defeat to the extend that they failed to carry the voice of
the Kurdish people regarding the massacres they were
subjected to in 1988 to the outside world because they
themselves had no voice or influence left… This tragic
situation lasted until the year 1990 when the Iraqi regime
committed the fatal mistake of occupying the State of
Kuwait. Then the whole world, its armies and media
stood against the Iraqi regime, revealing its crimes against
the Kuwaitis and started digging up the regime’s past
and its crimes against the Arab people and the Kurdish
people in Iraq. When the media in the West showed the
crimes of the Iraqi regime against the Kurdish people,
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