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

Dr Jawad Mella letter on Western Kurdistan to His
Excellency Tony Blair
Mr. Tony Blair
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
10 Downing Street
London SW1A 2AA
London 25th August 2004
Dear Mr. Blair,
On behalf of the Western Kurdistan Government
in Exile and the Kurdish community in the United
Kingdom and of many other institutions and
organisations, we are all in front your office to present
you the following memorandum:
The Kurdish population is more than 40 million. We
believe that the Kurdish people and their homeland
Kurdistan have been subjected to the worst kind of
colonialism and partition for a century.
At the end of World War II, Germany was divided, 40
years later they united again, but Kurdistan now more
than 80 years has been divided and the Kurdish people
did not occupy or kill others. We hope it is the time for
Kurdistan to be united and free again, and to end this
unbearable situation. In return for liberty and selfdetermination
of Kurdistan you will have in the Middle
East a new democratic State based on the Western
system and an opponent to international terrorism.
During the war on terror in Iraq there were mass
demonstrations and terrorist activities in all the Middle
East countries against the allied forces even in those
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