Ebdulrehman Qasimlo

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Ebdulrehman Qasimlo (Kurdish: Ebdul Rehman Qasimlû), (1930-1989), was an Iranian Kurdish politician from Iranian Kurdistan. He was born on December 22nd, 1930 in Ûrmiyeh, West Azarbaijan, from father Mihemed Qasimlo and Assyrian Christian mother Nana Jan Timsar. He was the leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (Partiya Demokrata Kurdistana Îranê - PDKÎ) from 1973 to 1989. He was assassinated on July 13th, 1989 by the Iranian authorities.

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[edit] Early and private life

Born in a relatively wealthy family of the Kurdish countryside, Ebdulrehman Qasimlo is instructed in a Quranic school. He starts his universitary studies in France, and pursues them in Czechoslovakia, where he meets his wife Helen Krulich. They have two daughters together, Mina (1953) and Hewa (1955).

[edit] Political life

Qasimlo gets back to Kurdistan in 1952, after completing his studies. He then spends several years as an active militant in the Kurdish political field. In 1973 during the Third Congress of the PDKÎ, he is elected at the position of Secretary General of the party. A position in which he will be reelected several times until his assassination.

In 1979, his party supported the revolution which ended in the fall of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. However, the party boycotted the referendum for the new constitution. This was the start of confrontation of the party and the new regime, which ended in a military oppression of the party by the central government. Ayatollah Khomeini declared a "holy war" on the Kurds. Thousands of executions and massacres followed in Kurdistan, which were continued up to 1984 in the middle of Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). During Iran-Iraq war, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou and his Party cooperated with Saddam in the war against Iran.

In 1988, after the war has ended, the Iranian government decides it is time to negotiate. Several meetings follow in Vienna, on December 28th, December 30th and January 20th. On July 13th, another meeting is set up, again in Vienna.

[edit] Assassination and funerals

Three men make up the Iranian delegation that day : Mohamed Jafar Sahraroudi, Hadji Mustafawi and Amir Mansur Bozorgian. The Kurdish delegation comprise also three persons : Abdullah Ghaderi Azar, Fadhil Rassul and Dr.Qasimlo. All three of them are killed that day. The three Iranian perpetrators are allowed to walk free. On July 19th the PDKÎ announces that then Deputy Secretary General, Sadegh Sharafkandi, becomes the new Secretary General (he will be assassinated too on September 17th, 1992). Abdullah Ghaderi Azar and Ebdulrehman Qasimlo are buried on July 20th in Paris.

[edit] The investigation

The Austrian government has denounced Islamic Republic as the responsible for this crime. The three Iranian representatives of that day are under a warrant for their arrest. So far they haven't been arrested. It has also been in rumor that current President of the Islamic republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was involved in the assassinations.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • Peyam, London-based Kurdish Paper, Issue Number 25-26, by Harem Jaff

[edit] External links

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