Melaye Mula Mehmud
The Assassination of the Spiritual Guide
By: Ayoub Barzani
Introduction
By: Mazhar Mohammadi
The initial impetus to this work was the desire to expose the people of Kurdistan to the history of their leaders. As we continue to flip through the pages of history that are written by balanced and independent sources, we realize that our leaders are only and overly glorified. Now that Iraq is liberated by the United States and Ba’ath Party is dissolved, the worst forms of Ba’athist-style propaganda are in S. Kurdistan. Writers, journalists, historians, poets and even ordinary citizens are required only to acclimate their leaders, portraying their evil as virtue and dark history as clean history. By controlling and monopolizing present, they may succeed in controlling the past as well, but the extent of their control over the past is limited. There are always objective and ethical pens that will emerge and expose the people of Kurdistan to the history of their leaders. The incumbent leaders must be clear on a fact: The people of Kurdistan have the full right to know the history of their leaders, and they also have the right to challenge their leadership.
The Ottomans massacred one and half a million Armenians in early 1900s. Today, even with the elapse of hundred years after the massacre, the secular “Turkish state” is being challenged for the brutal decision of their ancestors to genocide the Armenian nation. And it is unquestionable that Turkey will pay the full price and Sultan Abdulhamid’s name will be recorded in the dark pages of the Turkish history. The current leaders of S. Kurdistan must know that no matter how much wealth they steal from Kurdistanis, or how well they try to gloss over their dark history, justice will prevail and their names will eventually be recorded in the dark pages of history.
It is undeniable that Barzanis have taken a leading rule within the Kurdish Liberation Movement. The enemies of Kurdistan and certain beneficiaries have distorted the history of Barzan for different purposes. The intension of the former was to retaliate from the leading rule Barzanis have taken in the Kurdish Liberation Movement, but the later were intending to maintain their interests within Barzan’s struggle. Both modes of distortion described coupled with the shortcomings of a set of both incumbent and late Barzani leaders and politicians have put many Kurdistanis, including myself, until reading Ayoub Barzani’s “Kurdish Resistance to
