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

prevent enlightened and industrial classes to develop and
to keep only shepherds and peasants. This policy
weakened the bourgeois class in Kurdistan and prevented
it from playing an active role in the liberation movement
as in other countries. Thus the Kurdish liberation
movement remained stumbling and did not find a path
for independence until the end of the World War II when
a new generation of Kurdish youth who were more
conscious and aware about the national cause of the Kurds
started working towards the liberation of Kurdistan. This
direction was about to destroy all what was built by the
colonizers throughout of history and to spoil the
attachment to them forever. So, the colonizers replied
by attempting to empty the Kurdish liberation movement
from its true essence by creating the notions of the right
of self determination through what was called autonomy,
and thus it became a vicious circle and a game to entertain
the Kurdish masses and wasting their energies. Even
worse than that, when the democratic struggle grew in
strength they joined the question of autonomy with the
struggle for a democratic rule in the countries that colonize
Kurdistan so that the Kurdish democrats fall for it and
make them a prey and complete conscious followers of
the Arab, Turkish and Iranian democrats. On the other
hand I would like to mention the Kurdish Marxists who
fell under the control of the Arab, Turkish and Iranian
Marxists and furthermore to countries such as Russia,
China and Albania. Did the Kurdish Zoroastrians gain
their rights after following for more than a thousand years?
Did the Kurdish Muslims gain their rights after following
for one thousand and four hundred years? And now who
would say that the Kurdish democrats and Marxists with
their following to the Arab, Turkish and Iranian democrats
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