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