Archive for July 2009
In pictures: General Strike in Iranian Kurdistan
On the 20th anniversary of the assassination of the Kurdish leader and former General-Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), Dr. Abdul-Rahman Ghassmlou, the people of Iranian Kurdistan staged a general strike.
Every year, since the assassination of Dr. Ghassemlou on 13 July 1989 by the Islamic Republic of Iran, the PDKI has called [...]
The Kurdish people and the Iranian uprising
I have received a couple of emails from friends of our party in Europe asking me to write about the Iranian uprising after the presidential elections and the Kurdish peoples view on the matter. It came as a surprise to many of our friends that the Kurdish people didn’t participate in the demonstrations that followed [...]
