Komalah
The Komalah , also Komala ( Kurdish کۆمەڵە Komele ; German : Society or community , full name of the organization Komalay Shorishgêrî Zahmetkêshanî Kurdistan Iran , Revolutionary Organization of the Working People Kurdistan -Iran ), is a Kurdish Marxist - Leninist organization in northwestern Iran .
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Along with the Kurdistan-Iran Democratic Party, Komalah is the largest party among the Kurdish political movement in Iran. The organization was founded in 1967 from a splinter group of the KDP-Iran and has since fought for an autonomous Kurdish state ( Kurdistan ).
After twelve years of violent resistance against the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , the Komalah hoped that the change in power would give them the opportunity to participate in politics after the Islamic Revolution . Representatives of the Komala negotiated political cooperation with Ayatollah Khomeini . Khomeini was not prepared to cooperate and instead had numerous members of the Komala arrested and executed. Since then, the Komalah has led the armed struggle against the Islamic Republic .
In 1982/83 the Komalah joined with other left groups to form the Communist Party of Iran (KPI) (not to be confused with the Tudeh Party ). The name Komalah continued to be used for the party structures of the new party in Iranian Kurdistan.
In 2000 the party split into two organizations. One of these organizations operates independently under the old name ( Komala for short ) with Abdullah Mohtadi as General Secretary and the other remained as Sazman-e Kordestan-e Hezb-e Komunist-e Iran - Komalah ( Kurdistan Organization of the Communist Party of Iran - Komalah ) under the leadership of Ibrahim Alizade in the party. Both organizations have bases in Northern Iraq .
In 2005 a member of the party, the Kurd Ismail Mohammadi, was executed. In 2009, Ehsan Fattahian, who had been convicted of "enmity with God" because of his membership in Komala, was executed.
In Germany the organization maintains close ties to the MLPD .
Known members
- Ehsan Fattahian (executed November 2009)
Web links
- Komala website
- Komalah KPI website
- "Red flags, black mountains" article from Jungle World from June 15, 2005
- Red Star and Öcalan Pictures , Nikolaus Brauns on the Komalah (last paragraph), Junge Welt, November 3, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael M. Gunter: Historical Dictionary of the Kurds . Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7507-4 ( google.com [accessed May 8, 2016]).
- ^ Neil Hicks: The Human Rights of Kurds in the Islamic Republic of Iran. (No longer available online.) In: american.edu. 2000, archived from the original on August 7, 2011 ; accessed on May 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Saeed Rahnema, Sohrab Behdad: Iran After the Revolution: Crisis of an Islamic State . IBTauris, 1996, ISBN 978-1-86064-128-2 ( google.com [accessed May 8, 2016]).
- ↑ Iranian Kurds. Komala parties. (No longer available online.) Danish Refugee Council, 2012, archived from the original on August 7, 2011 ; accessed on May 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Amjad Qotbi: One Person's Story. In: Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Retrieved May 7, 2016 .
- ↑ http://rudaw.net/english/interview/11032014. In: rudaw.net. Retrieved May 7, 2016 .
- ^ Society for Threatened Peoples: Iran: death sentence carried out on fivefold father, 6.9.2005. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Kurd executed | Amnesty International. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
