The leader of the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) sent a letter to the European Parliament condemning the execution of five Kurdish human right and civil activists who hanged on Sunday 9th May.
Mr. Rahman Haji Ahmadi the leader of PJAK sent letters on Monday 10th May to Baroness Catherine Ashton, Vice President and High Representative of the European Commission For Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to Mr. Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe as well as Mr. José Manuel Barroso President of the European Commission.
In the letters Mr. Ahmadi highlights the Kurdish plight in the Middle East and in Iran. He condemned the execution of five Kurdish civil activists and he also requested for the withdrawal of death sentences given to fifty six civil activists in the Iranian prison as well as possible freedom all prisoners of conscious in the Iranian prisons.
Bellow is a copy of the letter:
Your Excellency: Ms. Catherine Ashton
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
The violation of human rights in Iran has on the one hand been ignored by the Western Powers for the sake of their economic interests and on the other hand, it has been victimised by the nuclear issue. The Islamic Republic has availed of the Western ignorance to silence the dissenting voices as well as the human rights activism inside Iran; it has taken advantages of the Western indifferences to commit crimes against humanity. All the Iranian’s different nations are denied with their social, political, cultural and human right including the freedom of beliefs, associations and assembly. The political and human right activists do face arbitrary arrests, unfair trail, systematic torture and inhuman degradation and their final journey is ended in the rope circle of hanging and execution.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard act with impunity and shoot the people who are forcefully driven to work at the Iranian borders and within this framework a day will not go on without a crime committed against humanity by the Iranian Authorities. On Monday 26th April for instance, they did not show mercy to Arol Ugor, 15 year old Kurdish child who was working on the border to make living for his family, they shot and killed him on the spot. Within the Iranian theocratic system women have no place; their rights have been violated more than any section of the society and as the result of high level discrimination applied both in law and in practice, they have suffered a significant agony.
Honourable Ms. Ashton, the Political Islam sponsored by the current Iranian regime has been developing and it seeks to enhance it position and influences not only in the Middle East but throughout the Third World. Without a doubt it would have fatal repercussion not only for the Middle East but for the entire humanity and if it is not thwarted on the right time and if sufficient steps have not been taken to neutralise and counterbalance it, it would probably lead the humanity into a dire state. Although we have been resisting to the political Islam along its offensives strategies implemented by the Iranian regime and have sought to defend ourselves against the assimilation and the inhuman religious fundamentalism, yet we have been the victim of the Iranian state terror and suffered the most.
Dear Ms. Ashton, the Kurdish issue is the case of 40-45 million people who due to their distinct identity, culture, language and history from the other nations of the region have been denied with their very basic human rights; the Kurdish language has been prohibited, the Kurdish culture is struggling for survival and the existence of the Kurds as a distinct entity is denied on a daily basis. In such circumstances any resisting step along with any libertarian tendencies are being blacklisted or labelled as a terror outside of state. The Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) emerged into the political arena in 2004 as the manifestation of the Kurdish demands and it has done its utmost to find a peaceful-democratic solution to the Kurdish issue within the current Iranian border, devoid of any tendencies toward violence. Nonetheless the Iranian fundamentalist regime has taken extreme measures against us and tried every possible method in its war to annihilate and eradicate us. It has also launched a wide range of fabricated propagation against our movement which includes:
1. They have claimed that The Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) is a separatist movement and seeks for the division of Iran; by doing this they endeavour to unite the Iranian people against our movement. Notwithstanding the PJAK has put forward a free-border democratic federation for the Iranian people devoid of any temptation for the issue of border and it is the best model for the establishment of equality and the peaceful co-existence amongst the Iranian nations as well as the preservation of the current Iranian borders.
2. They identify our movement as an offshoot of the Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK), their intention behind this accusation is to blacklist PJAK as well.
3. They accuse PJAK of being established by the US and the Israel. They pursue two objectives here; on the one hand they seek to isolate us from the Islamic world, on the other hand they threaten Turkey by convey the message that the US is sponsoring the Kurdish resistance movement through the PJAK. This has resulted in Turkish hostilities toward our movement.
The fact is that the PJAK is neither a separatist movement, nor an offshoot of the PKK, nor the US or Israeli’s made; the PJAK is the consequences of the currently enforced oppressions and coercions of the Iranian society and PJAK endeavours for the establishment of a democratic system in which all the Iranian nations are regarded equal. Nonetheless the Iranian regime has adapted the most inhuman and violent methods for the suppression of our youths who work in their territories and along with their people carrying out their political, social and cultural work. The Iranian Intelligent Service arrest, torture and execute them in the most vicious ways; in such case we are “obliged” to avail the right of self-defence as mentioned and legitimised by the Article 51 of the United Nations Charter to defend ourselves.
Honourable Ms. Ashton, If there was a legitimate and authorised institution for the stateless nations within the United Nations or the European Unions, to protect the rights of the denial people and the stateless nations as well as the ethnic and the religious groups, where they could settle their issues in peaceful democratic ways and secure their legitimate and democratic rights, then the denial people, the ethnic, religious or the oppressed groups neither had the right, nor did they feel the urgency to restore to arms or violent methods in order to settle their issues with their oppressors. We are left only with two options with the Iranian regime; we have to either apt for the national, cultural, linguistic and religious assimilation, or we have to resist. A question is raising here; is it possible to carry out our civil and democratic works within the framework of the current Iranian Islamic Republic?? Those detainees who have been subjected to the most vicious tortures in the Iranian prisons, those who have been given long-term imprisonments, those who have been given death sentences, apart from democratic civil and political activities, what have they been engaged with??
We are ready to take part and do our utmost for the development of peace and democracy devoid of any tendency for violent methods. We are ready to engage in political and diplomatic procedures to settle our problems with the Iranian theocratic regime and seek the settlement within the current Iranian borders, but the Kurdish nation by no means is ready for assimilation or annihilation. A quite look at the history of the Kurdish people would show that the Kurdish nation will neither assimilate nor annihilate, and without a resolution to the Kurdish issue the possibility of democratisation of the region as well as the neutralisation of political Islam would stay at its lowest level.
Honourable Ms. Ashton, a day will not go on without one or more execution cases in the Iranian prisons. Currently 56 civil and human right activists, who have worked for the democratisation of Iran and the achievement of equal rights and the peaceful co-existence of all the Iranian nations, are sentenced to death and waiting for their executions. On Sunday morning 9th May which is the Mother Day five Kurdish activists were executed and the life of the rest are at the imminent risk, they might also get executed by the time you are receiving this letter.
I would like to urge you to take appropriate actions for the withdrawal of the death sentences given to all these detainees and the possible freedom of all the prisoners of conscious in the Iranian prison.
Honourable Ms. Ashton, I would also kindly like to request for a possible visit with you or your representative, in order to provide you with further information about our work and strategies for Iran as well as the Middle East.
The enclosed is thousands of signatures appealing to your assistance for the freedom of the Kurdish political prisoners in the Iranian prison.
Your sincerely
Rehman Haji Ahmedi
The General Secretary of the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK)