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

is regarded as a strike against the interests of the local
and occupying bourgeoisie, and liberates the people of
Kurdistan from oppression and national and class
exploitation in the same time.
Let alone the demagogic and ambiguous ideas of those
who carry the slogan of the autonomy for Kurdistan within
the borders of the countries occupying Kurdistan by
insisting on democracy. As they say: “There will not be
autonomy without a democratic life.” This is while they
and everyone knows that those governments are not ready
even to understand what democracy means, as they deny
their own Arabic, Turkish and Persian people the simplest
democratic and human rights. So, how can we ask them
to recognize the national rights of the Kurdish people?
This is a condition for an impossible and unrealistic strange
demand!! One who has not something cannot award it.
If you think that it is difficult to achieve an independent
Kurdish state, then to sustain an autonomy within such
sort of states is impossible.
I am not against democracy and for the peoples of the
world to enjoy it. However, I am saying that as a loyalty
to the blood of our martyrs that it is a pity for the
intellectuals and leaders of my people to condition and
relate the possibility for our people to be able to read
and write in their own language with the application of
any system in other peoples’ countries. Let us leave the
peoples of our region alone to choose any regime they
desire (as we are not their keepers), they may even choose
a regime better than a democracy! So, once again let
them choose and let our people choose their own system
and state.
Let us now turn our attention to another side of the
suffering, as many of the Kurdish parties call for the
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