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

those – who exaggerate, according to the occupiers - and
asked for more than dancing. This is done under several
pretenses such as “local rule” or “decentralized rule”.
But the most famous of these is “autonomy” with its
several sorts “the abstract, the true, the full, the incomplete
or the deficient autonomy”. Then lately another one
occurred under the name of “federalism”, which sooner
or later, will have its own brands also. This one also
would stay as a Kurdish demand until the people of
Kurdistan will discover its unfruitfulness as its
predecessors because it is no different from the others,
as long as it is limited to the borders of the countries
occupying Kurdistan. All of these names are the same
old autonomy and the changing of the name is just for
deception and play with the words, because demanding
even an empire within the political borders of this country
or that is nothing but the confirmation of the old notion
of autonomy.
It’s my national duty to discuss the painful events that
our Kurdish people have lived through and are still
suffering badly from. As the reason for this suffering is
not at all because of the disregard in carrying out duties
or negligence in sacrifices, but the reason is in the wrong
stating of the question itself. The Revolution of 11th
September 1961, for example, managed to gain the right
of autonomy with less than twenty thousand Peshmarga
fighters in 1970. However, it could not hold on to it
with more than one hundred and fifty thousand Peshmarga
fighters in 1975. Do those who struggle for the sake of
autonomy today remember what the experience of the
11th March 1970 brought upon the Kurdish people? If
they do not remember let me remind them as this could
be useful for those who can understand:
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