Information and liaison bulletin - Institut kurde de Paris
Information and liaison bulletin - Institut kurde de Paris
Information and liaison bulletin - Institut kurde de Paris
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
INFORMATION AND liAISON BUUEfIN 10<br />
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL<br />
CONFERENCE IN PARIS<br />
International Conference<br />
The Kurds: «The Rights of Man<br />
<strong>and</strong> Cultural I<strong>de</strong>ntity»<br />
<strong>Paris</strong>, October 14, 1990<br />
Three months afterthe July 13th assassination of three<br />
Kurdish individuals, Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou,<br />
Secretary General of the PDKI, Mr.Abdullah Gha<strong>de</strong>ri,<br />
representative of the PDKI in Europe, <strong>and</strong> Dr. Fadil<br />
Rasoul, the inquest carried out by the Austrian authorities<br />
seems to this day to have brought no results. It is<br />
as though one still continues to believe that the authors<br />
of this crime are still not known to everybody.<br />
The essential pieces of tnformation, those of the autopsy<br />
reports <strong>and</strong> the ballistic expert have still not ,<br />
officially that is, been put into the file. This has interfered<br />
with the establishment of the conditions un<strong>de</strong>r which<br />
the three Kurds were assassinated during a meeting<br />
with three Iranian emissaries.<br />
One of the emissaries disappeared on the night of the<br />
crime, another was permitted to leave Austria without<br />
problems <strong>and</strong> with the prerogative of diplomatic immu.<br />
nlty which the Austrian authorities say they were not<br />
able to avoid granting un<strong>de</strong>r these clrcu mstances. The<br />
third member of this Iranian "<strong>de</strong>legation» Is officially In<br />
refuge In his embassy In Vienna, un<strong>de</strong>r the provisions<br />
of a ridiculous charge.<br />
We cannot accept a state of affairs that, if prolonged,<br />
would signify that the crime in Vienna will go more or<br />
less unpunished - not only in respect forthe memory of<br />
our friends, but also for fear that fairness <strong>and</strong> justice be<br />
respected. We cannot believe that a <strong>de</strong>mocratic cou n-<br />
try, in the name of whatever reasons given by the state,<br />
could flout Its own laws <strong>and</strong> values that are the rights<br />
<strong>and</strong> values of all <strong>de</strong>mocratic nations.<br />
ThiS ISwhy we entreat the Austrian authOrities, With all<br />
ourforce, to implement all pOSSible means available to<br />
them so that light may be shed on the July 13th crime<br />
<strong>and</strong> its authors I<strong>de</strong>ntified <strong>and</strong> pursued. We ask that the<br />
results of the tnquest be ma<strong>de</strong> publiC <strong>and</strong> that the<br />
Austrian Justice authOrities continue their work Without<br />
hindrance, tndlctlng the assassins <strong>and</strong> their accomplices<br />
ACCOUNT OF NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN<br />
THE IRANIAN KURDISH MOVEMENT AND<br />
THE TEHRAN AUTHORITIES<br />
Ever since the fall of the monarchy, representatives of<br />
the Kurdish people have tried to negotiate autonomy<br />
status with the Tehran Central Government for the six<br />
million Kurds of Iran.<br />
The first steps were taken in March to July 1989, <strong>and</strong><br />
were so much closer to Prime Minister Mahdi Bazargan<br />
than Ayatollah Khometny, came to no end. Khomelny<br />
had stated to Ghassemlou that even the notion of<br />
autonomy was foreign to Islam <strong>and</strong> that all muslims,<br />
being brothers, ceit wasn't the place to recognlse<br />
special rights for Kurds.»<br />
In December 1978, after a mur<strong>de</strong>rous war of three<br />
months triggered off by Khomeiny's or<strong>de</strong>rs, official<br />
negociations were engaged in Mahabad between the<br />
United Kurdish <strong>de</strong>legation, gathering together all of the<br />
Kurdish organisations <strong>and</strong> the representatives of<br />
Central Power. It qUickly turned out that Tehran had<br />
called them there Simply to buy time, waiting to organ1se<br />
its forces better. The negotiations fizzled out <strong>and</strong><br />
the war got worse again In Spring 1980. It has continued<br />
ever Since, without relapse or truce.<br />
All dUring thiS war Imposed on the Kurdish people,<br />
A.R.Ghassemlou never stopped saying that there was<br />
no military solution to the Kurdish question <strong>and</strong> that it<br />
was necessary to come to a negotiated settlement. On<br />
a number of occasslons he publically <strong>de</strong>clared being<br />
ready to negotiate with the Iranian regime. This attitu<strong>de</strong><br />
was one of the causes for the rupture of his Party with<br />
the National AdVisory of the Iranian resistance.<br />
Faithful to hiS prinCiples, he had accepted in December<br />
1988 an offer by the Iranians for peace talks. The first<br />
series of diSCUSSionstook place, the 30th <strong>and</strong> 31 st of