Information and liaison bulletin - Institut kurde de Paris
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INFORMATION AND liAISON BUILEfIN 6<br />
They were afraid of this message of peace so they killed<br />
the messengers. It Is In this manner that some big<br />
children who govern certain l<strong>and</strong>s of the world act.<br />
Abdul Rahman, men of your caliber are rare as we<br />
approach the end of the century. And many of those<br />
that ressemble you, combat humanists, have been<br />
killed as well. ANOUAR EL SADATE, the Egyptian,<br />
ISSAM SARTAOUI, the Palestinian, SADEGH<br />
GHOTBZADEH, the Iranian, BAODIN MAJERHU, the<br />
Afghan <strong>and</strong> Jean-Marie TJIBAOU the Iraqlan. Abdul<br />
Rahman Ghassemlou, I have the Impression of knowing<br />
you everywhere, without a doubt because you<br />
were a mo<strong>de</strong>l.<br />
You are not at home in the ground, Abdul Rahman<br />
Ghassemlou, at the foot of the Wall of Fe<strong>de</strong>rates that<br />
knows other battles about which you knew <strong>and</strong> approved<br />
of. You are far from home. Do you have a home?<br />
Eternal exile? Here, with us, your friends, we hope that<br />
you will feel at home. ccThe struggle is hard,» my friend<br />
Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou was telling me days ago,<br />
especially because in turning around one sees empty<br />
seats <strong>and</strong> thinning ranks. This is the place of companions<br />
who have fallen in this struggle. So many of us are<br />
<strong>de</strong>ad, you were telling me. You too, my friend, you are<br />
<strong>de</strong>ad. How injust it is.<br />
Stay with us for a while, Abdul Rahman <strong>and</strong> you too<br />
Abdullah; for the time that your country might stop<br />
spilling blood <strong>and</strong> spilling its own; the time that black or<br />
white bear<strong>de</strong>d men <strong>and</strong> women in black extend their<br />
h<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> stop evoking God at the slightest of massacres<br />
that they perpetrate themselves.<br />
INTERVENTION BY<br />
PATRICK BAUDOUIN<br />
SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE INTERNAIONAL<br />
FEDERATION FOR THE RIGHTS OF MAN<br />
When words are difficult to find, where discussions<br />
seem some how in vain; It is moments like this, even for<br />
those who have been struggling for years in favour of<br />
the Rights of Kurds, It must be said, moments that are<br />
discouraging.<br />
How?! Here again are militants of thiS cause, <strong>and</strong> they<br />
are among the greatest who have fallen, cowardly<br />
assassinated. Here is even more proof forthe Kurdish<br />
people!<br />
Fifteen years ago I took my first trip there, to Iraqi<br />
Kurdistan. Atthetimethere was already a war gOing on<br />
between the others. Barzani was still the historical<br />
lea<strong>de</strong>r then. And since then, what disillusions for the<br />
Kurds! What battles! What atrocities have been committed!<br />
Villages <strong>de</strong>stroyed, populations massacred,<br />
children who are not allowed to learn their own languages,<br />
their traditions. The use of chemical weapons All<br />
of this is weighing on the Kurdish people. And what Is<br />
the International public doing? What are the governments<br />
doing? Indlffernce, silence I I don't hesitate here<br />
to express our disgust, our repungence while twenty<br />
plus million Kurds live un<strong>de</strong>r such conditions, such<br />
difficult conditions for so many years.<br />
But they do It with so much courage. And It Is not to the<br />
Peshmergas present here that I will speak of courage,<br />
forthey know what that means. For It Is the sense of the<br />
word ccpeshmergas» (don'tfear<strong>de</strong>ath <strong>and</strong>go Infront of<br />
it) when it is a question of struggling for their cause, a<br />
just cause. No, there will not be wasted <strong>de</strong>aths. The<br />
struggle will continue, we can be sure. We know the<br />
courage of the Kurds <strong>and</strong> we, who are not necessarily<br />
Kurdish, we are here to support them. We, in any case<br />
the international organisations with means, will try to<br />
make it so that the Kurds are spoken of more, so that<br />
they are not ignored while atrocious acts being committed<br />
against them <strong>and</strong> so that international organisations,<br />
governments might finally put pressure on the<br />
authonties concerned in Iran, Iraq, in Turkey .... That<br />
this situation might stop <strong>and</strong> the Kurds might finally<br />
have the legitimate rights that they are claiming, that<br />
they might aqulre a minimum of autonomy so that they<br />
can become something other than a people at war,<br />
continually at war, continually oppressed.<br />
But we know, we know that the courage of the Kurds Will<br />
help. We know that we must not lose hope. And we<br />
know that after Dr. Ghassemlou <strong>and</strong> the two other<br />
Kurdish militants who were so savagely assassinated<br />
there Will rise other men, other militnats to take over.<br />
And we, international organisations, all present here<br />
today, have come to give family <strong>and</strong> friends our entire<br />
support. And, also to tell them that we hope to draw<br />
from thiS moment that IS so painful to us a new energy<br />
for the tnumph of the Kurdish cause, so worthy.<br />
INTERVENTION BY<br />
AHMED BEN BELLA<br />
FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC<br />
OF ALGERIA<br />
All of Hlwa's family IS In mourning. Our chief editor,<br />
Fa<strong>de</strong>l Rasoul has just been cowardly by assinated.<br />
This mourning that has struck his family affects us<br />
terribly; we, who were his friends <strong>and</strong> worked With him<br />
on the Journal ccEIHiwar». Similarly, hiS being lost has<br />
reached Innumerable rea<strong>de</strong>rs of thiS journal who were<br />
able to appreciate the quality of his writing as well as<br />
those who, from close by or from a distance, got close<br />
to him <strong>and</strong> knew him. And all of those people could do<br />
nothing but love him<br />
Fa<strong>de</strong>l was the symbol himself of the title of our journal,<br />
which before being ours was hiS; before everything