This letter was sent to
all European Union Prime Ministers.
KURDISTAN HOMELAND
MOVMENT
8 Warren Close,
Rosendale Road
LONDON SE21 8NB
TEL: 020 8766 8806
FAX: 020 8761 8420
SITE: http://www.btinternet.com/~kurd,oil
EMAIL: kurd.oil@btinternet.com
17th May 2001
The Prime Minister,
Dear Prime
Minister,
I write to extend
my sincerest regards to you on behalf of all the Kurdish refugees resident throughout
the world, especially those who live in Europe.
I know that your government is
concerned to solve the Kurdish refugee question and some of your ministers have
decided to send some of the refugees back to Kurdistan.
As one responsible for the Kurdish
Homeland Movement, I am against those who, in Kurdistan, oppress innocent
peoples.
With regard to this situation I
want to give you some information about Kurdistan and those refugees who have
left their homeland. I want to give you my ideas as a way of solving the
refugee crises:
a- The situation
inside Kurdistan – safe haven.
1.
1.
Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey are violating the human rights of the
Kurdish people and they have created many groups of Kurdish militia. Those people claim to be working for the
interests of the Kurdish people, but they are truly working against these
principles. Most of the families of
those who belong to the most senior members of the militia groups reside in
Europe and have full refugee status. These members of the militia return to
Kurdistan from time to time and continue to oppress their own people.
2.
2.
An Amnesty International report on the Kurdish situation confirms
this. This is causing the ordinary people extreme distress and forcing them to
leave their homeland.
3.
3.
Due to this continued oppression a total of about 600,000 people
are now displaced.
4.
4.
The main militias – P. U.K. and K.D.P., as well as oil-smuggling
for Saddam Hussein, have full control of the ‘Oil for Food’ programme and no
one else can become involved. This has
made a huge income for them and they are claiming to be the architects of the
projects.
5.
5.
Europe and America have tried to reach a peace agreement with
these oppressors, but after 3 years nothing definite has resulted. The people are still being held down, or the
militias have used the peace agreement to take over financial aid to the
ordinary people.
6. 6. There is no
legal way of transferring money from Europe to Kurdistan or vice versa, but all
these militias have means of placing and using suspect accounting in order to
carry out these procedures. This
amounts to 100 million dollars per month.
These moneys have been stolen from both European and Kurdish sources.
There are now 500,000 Kurdish refugees in Europe – if each one were to send 200
dollars per month then that would make 100 million dollars.
b. I wish to inform you that,
1.
1.
As with every other nation, the Kurds love their homeland and do
not want to leave but when their lives are under threat they have no
alternative. Consider the plight of those 500,000. All have cases against those militia groups in Kurdistan,
especially P.U.K. and K.D.P.
2.
2.
The Kurds who have knowledge about Western Democratic rule cannot
live under such dictatorial power, especially those refugees who have
experienced life in Europe. For these
reasons, before any action is taken against the refugees you should decide to
bring about true democratic conditions in Kurdistan.
3.
3.
Those refugees who have had their homes and lives destroyed have
paid smugglers to transport them to Europe.
Now they have nothing left.
4. 4. Those refugees
are attending language schools and have sent their children there also. The learning of languages will be in the
interests of bringing about unification between the Kurds and Western Europe
for the furthering of future developments.
C. These are my proposals for solving this disastrous situation:
1.
1.
The numbers of the refugees is increasing daily. If there are 3 million people living in the
‘safe haven’, why have 500,000 now come to Europe?
2.
2.
There is a clear case for NATO or the Western European Union to
come to all of Kurdistan, according to the Mosul-Vilayet maps. Military intervention is necessary, to
establish democratic conditions and the rule of law.
3.
3.
Kurdish oil will then return to Kurdish ownership, and through the
Kurdish National Bank realistic business systems can be created.
4.
4.
Western support should remain physically present until we can
prove that we are economically and financially fully operative.
5.
5.
When this takes place, Kurdish institutions can take full responsibility
for the refugees and return them to their homeland.
6.
6.
If Europe cannot take up the proposals and if groups of refugees
continue to be sent back to Kurdistan, then we will have to remain under the
control of those militia groups. Neither
the Kurds nor the peoples of Western Europe will benefit from.
With sincere
respect,
Sardar Pishdare
