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

materials from Kurdistan and sell the manufactured and
imported goods to its people.
This, in addition to what we have mentioned above in
terms of the different forms of unfair treatment, lack of
freedom and the exploitation of the wealth of the Kurdish
people have led to the emergence of the modern Kurdish
Liberation movement. This movement aims not only for
the political and national liberation of Kurdish society
but for its economic, social and ideological liberation
and freedom once and for all from all forms of exploitation
that have accompanied it for long years of darkness and
lack of justice.
It is on this path and for this lofty purpose that the
freedom fighters of Kurdistan forge their battle for the
sake of building an independent Kurdish homeland with
a new set of economic and social relationships concerning
the Kurdish individual’s quest to master of his own will
and national rule.
Since the major uprising in Southern Kurdistan in 1991,
new and concrete evidence has begun to point towards
the Kurdish will and determination and towards a new
beginning for the Kurds and Kurdistan. Southern
Kurdistan became an international solicitor for the Kurdish
cause, through a Kurdish administration that proceeded
by organising Kurdish parliamentary elections. As a result,
a governing body was formed with all the different
organisational divisions in which the different Kurdish
political parties and groups participated. The official and
practical withdrawal of Baghdad of its administration
from Kurdish territory was another important pointer
confirming the legality of this situation for Kurdistan.
More importantly, the international community backed
up by the United Nations Resolution, has determined the
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