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

However, they did what was not in anyone’s thoughts;
as they divided Kurdistan into several parts and gave
each part to the neighboring artificially created countries.
They did not leave even one foot of land of Kurdistan to
the Kurds. Such an injustice which was done using
methods full of plots and conspiracies had no precedence
in history. The most distressing fact is that these countries
to which parts of Kurdistan have been affiliated to, today
regard those parts as part of their homelands!! In front
of such agreement between those countries we have no
choice but to agree on one policy among ourselves. This
is because the occupiers of Kurdistan would resist any
rights to the Kurds, be it the right to a Kurdish state or
autonomy, federalism or confederalism. On this basis
they would never allow us autonomy, because they
understand this will be nothing but a first step towards
the independence. Let us, for the sake of argument,
suppose that they would agree to allow us autonomy,
which I see as impossible; is the autonomy worth of all
those bitter tragedies and great sacrifices? As the
autonomy is not a national right at all, but according to
its legal definition it is only administrative division for a
group of districts with particular geographical and
economical characteristics. This means that the
unification of those districts or provinces under a larger
administrative province or autonomous area is just for
making its administration easier, nothing more nothing
less. The notion of autonomy is just an evil plot that
infected the Kurdish liberation movement. The occupiers
of Kurdistan implanted this idea into the Kurdish liberation
movement in order to keep their artificial borders as they
are now. However strong the Kurdish revolution becomes
the maximum they can gain is an autonomous area under
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