Information and liaison bulletin - Institut kurde de Paris

INFORMATION AND UAISON BUUEl'1N 4
Iou a few days prior at the Congress of the International
Socialist In Stockholm, publlcallyexpressed his -pain ..
and offered his condolences to Ghassemlou's family
and friends.
In contrast to the public reactions, governments have
once more remained silent. Those who were not able to
find words strong enough to stigmatize w~h Just cause
the death threat on Salman Rushdle by Khomelny or
the hostage crisis (kidnapping of Westerners) by Iranians
or their agents, did not say a word when faced
with a triple murder perpetrated In the Austrian capital
by representatives of the Iranian state. The French
government extended sympathy to the Kurdish people
by facilitating the repatriation of the bodies and In
diligently granting visas to Kurds wishing to come and
participate In the funeral services. The services were
organlsed In Paris and represented was the Secretary
of State for Humanitarian Acts, Bernard Kouchner.
Lionel Jospln, former first secretary of the Socialist
Party, Mlnlsterof State and Mlnlsterof National Education,
was also present at the services. This gesture by
the French authorities went straight to the heart of the
Kurds in mourning.
FUNERALS IN PARIS:
A MOMENT OF STRONG KURDISH NATIONAL UNITY
Kurdlstan being in a state of war, the funeral services
for the two leaders of the Iranian PDK were held in
Paris. A chapel of rest was set up at the Kurdish
Institute. There, on ThursdayJuly 20th, from ten o'clock
in the morning to one o'clock in the afternoon, Kurdish
personalities coming directly from countries in the
Near-East, representatives of French, Turkish and Iranian
political organisations, and European and Oriental
intellectuals, all came to pay their last respects.
Kurdish merchants in Paris (clothing facotries, restaurants,
shops) closed their doors in a sign of mourning
The funeral procession arrived at La Place de la Republique
around two o'clock where a large crowd was
waiting to accompany it in silence all the way to the
Pere-Lachaise Cemetery. After the funeral-orations,
spoken by Bernard Kouchner, French Secretary of
State for Humanitarian Action, Thomas HAMMER-
BERG, former Secretary General of Amnesty International,
current President of the Swedish Committee for
the Kurdish People, Patrick BAUDOIN, Secretary
General forthe International Federation on the Rights
of Man, and Abdoullah HASSANZADH, head of the
PDKI delegation, the bodies were buried not far from
the "Wall of the Federates".
All the Kurdish political organisations of Tul1