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else, he was a man of words over and above his
Immense culture.
Th Is ma n, who never hesitated f Ightlng wit h weapons In
hand to defend his Ideals of liberty and dignity, was to
the greatest degree, an open, modest, human and
profoundly good man. Those flowers which emit a
perfume that never leaves you, that you can never get
rid of as soon as you approach it; Fadel gave off that
smell summa rising all of these qualities. Forthose of us
who knew him well, that is what we smelt and felt so
strongly when thinking of him. Forever. It Is this that a
criminal hand, perpetuating Its forfeit In the shadows,
cowardly dared to strike on this day of forgiving which
is for us the Aid el Kebir. Fadel was assassinated during
this day of celebration. He had left his people for this
murderous land where he had seen the day and has
become a part of our flesh, to take part in ambitions
carrying hopes of peace in favour of his Kurdish brothers.
Fadel's assassination summarises ourtragedy. Men of
quality have become undesirable at home in the places
where our people live. They don't have any other
alternative but to flee to distant horizons orto dlsppear.
But even so, even in these distant capitals, barbarism
reaches them, as today is the case for our brother
Fadel. .. in that beautiful city of Vienna which had
become for him, for his people and for so many others,
a haven for peace, peace and important work for the
elaboration of an IslamiC civilizationing project. Thus, It
ISessentionally due to him that the Journal «EI Hiwar"
was able to exist. It was his idea at first. He is the one
who made the effort, that the journal came into being
and lasted these three years. He was the one to make
a symbol of what he carried inside of himself, his
certainties and his hopes. He Is the one who, for three
years, inspired the fertile spirit with sythesis so that the
journal could develop.
Yes, Fadel is the spiritual
father of «EI Hiwar».
It Is at the moment where we were around him studying
the proper means for making the jou rnal more dynamic
and for enlarging its distribution, and at the same time
as our meetings that he was carrying on another activity
In persulng peace for Iranian kudistan, that the tragedy
Intervened occurred.
All this legacy to say how much Fadel has become
sacred to us. We will not stop working to reinforce ccEI
Hiwar», to spread its distribution, to defend ideals of
peace, dialogue, liberty and dignity which literally lived
in Fadel and which will continue in us and in the heart
of numerous friends and readers; such a beautiful
picture of a man, such a beautiful image.
No; men like Fadel don't die. They live in the heart of
beings close to them, ennchlng them, staying there for
ever
As With men, tyranles are mortal. Often they rush
towards thelrend when, belieVing they are dealing with
unarmed and innocent Victims, they take on quality
men like Fadel. The blood of pure men such as Fadel
doesn't shout vengeance, It creates life ... the life that
carnes away tyrants and tyranles and shortens their
Sinister work
PORTRAITS OF THE KURDISH MARTYRS
A.R.GHASSEMLOU
GHASSEMLOU THE WISE:
PASSIONATE
OF A DESPARATE
AMBASSADOR
CAUSE
by Marc KRAVETZ
(translated from Liberation, August 71989)
Abdel Rahman Ghassemlou, murdered In Vienna on
July 13th 1989, was in every wayan exceptional man,
both as leader of one of the oldest and most deeply
rooted national liberation movements and In hiS personal
magnetism - hiS international Influence, his rare if
not unique ability to express the traditions and the
struggle of a thousand-year-old people in terms of the
values of the late 20th century: freedom, democracy,
Internationalism. But he was little known to the public,
and many Will have learned simultaneously of his
eXistence and of hiS death.
Ghassemlou was not a man of shadows, nor surrounded
by mystery. The Secretary General of the Democratic
Party of Kurdlstan of Iran, war leader when
necessary but political leader above all, he saw himself
as a man of contact and dialogue. He was a passionate
and tireless ambassador for this cause, who travelled
all over the world to make it better known. But he was
happiest shanng a mud hut With hiSpeshmergas at the