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

with which the cowards want to tear apart the land, the
people and the courage.
To those who may accuse us of threatening the
independence of the states neighboring Kurdistan we reply
that they are talking about an independence that we do
not know about. We may ask them: where is the
independence on our land? We can say also that the
independence of the world is not our responsibility alone.
We have only one truth to throw at them, which is that
we have not seen any independence for long years. Instead
our rights have been snatched and divided among
neighboring countries. We are not separatists but we are
asking for the reunification of the parts of Kurdistan.
The civilized people who shout at us: you are supporters
of war and not peace; have no right to do so. In fact by
doing this they are the actual supporters of war.
To those who call for peace and warn from the danger
of war, we reply that their “peace” is unjust, aggressive
and barbaric. Our children’s bodies have been torn apart
by the bombs of their peace. Our bodies have been
burnt by the napalms of their peace. Our women are
widowed in the shadows of their peace and we are dying
every day under this pretence of peace. So, we have the
right to accuse them of hypocrisy. For it is they who
endanger the world peace and independence of peoples
by manufacturing and trading in tools of destruction and
war. If the peace and independence of any one are
subjected to risks, their responsibility for this is the most
and especially much more than ours. I think
summarization into points is the best to reply for the
question:
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