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

authorities under the name Komeley Yeksani. There were
also the attacks by the military forces of the Komele, the
forces of Sinar Agha Shakak and the forces of Tahir
Khan son of Simko Agha Shakak and the Kurdistan
Democratic Party, which was the strongest and most
organised of them all under the leadership of the martyr
Dr. Abdulrahman Qasimlo 1980-1989.
The Kurdish Revolution in Eastern Kurdistan under
the leadership of the Kurdish Democratic Party and
Dr. Abdulrahman Qasimlo
The Kurdish people were subjected, before the advent
of the Monarchy in Iran, to a host of persecutions and
the abjuration of their designated national rights. This
suppression was not only against the revolutionary
movements but also against the basic rights of the Kurdish
people to freedom of expression. The Iranian Savak “the
Iranian secret police” ruled in Eastern Kurdistan with an
iron fist. The Kurds considered the fall of the Shah’s
regime in Iran and the formation of the Iranian Islamic
Republic as good news and they took to the streets in
support of the new regime under the leadership of
Ayatollah Khomeini. The Kurdish fighters returned to
Iran, at their head Dr. Abdulrahman Qasimlo who had
escaped outside the homeland. Many of the Kurdish
political prisoners, such as Mr. Ghani Blourian who had
served a record time of 27 years, were released of Iranian
prisons. However, the local, regional, and national factors
pushed the Kurds to bear arms once again and start a
revolution under the leadership of the Kurdish Democratic
Party and its Secretary General Dr. Abdulrahman Qasimlo.
Nevertheless, at the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1989, the
persistence of numerous regional and national factors
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