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

Kurdish cause took the first pages of the international
press and the priority in the media news and pictures.
The tragedy of the Kurdish people and the death of children
and elderly people in the snows of those high mountains
from cold and hunger, was broadcasted… the Kurds in
the outside world declared their solidarity with the mass
exodus by organizing demonstrations and pickets in front
of the American and British embassies, and announced
hunger strikes to put pressure on the western countries to
intervene and put an end to this tragedy, during which
our comrades, the members of Kurdistan National
Congress participated in all those demonstrations and
hunger strikes raising the flag of Kurdistan. For example:
I was with the comrades of KNC raising the flag of
Kurdistan in front of the American embassy in London
and every day I would enter the embassy with the flag,
and present letters addressed to the American President
asking him to intervene quickly. The letters were
sometimes for pleading and others for criticizing … this
situation lasted for several weeks until the western forces
intervened and provided protection to the Kurdish people.
Only then the pickets stopped. However, the media in
the west continued in its support to the Kurdish people
until the leaders of the Kurdish organizations went to
Baghdad and kissed the criminal Saddam Hussein. After
that the media stopped to mention Kurds because they
made up with their murderous oppressors and there was
no reason for others to intervene and defend them!!
This had a negative effect on the international politics,
just as one example we mention: when Mr. John Major
the British Prime Minister declared in the conference of
his party that he would support the independence of
Kurdistan the leaders of the Kurdish parties in Southern
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