By KNC-NA, August 13, 2011
The world is witnessing major changes lately, and these changes have been more rapid and apparent with the recent revolutions in the Middle East. Iran, one of the most brutal states in the Middle East, is doing its share to make sure the change is backwards. After failing to manipulate the Kurdish demonstrators in Slemany to think backwards, the Iranian authorities went back to their old tactic, killing. The followers of the Persian Ayatollahs restarted bombing Kurdish villages to fight the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK). PJAK is a new Kurdish guerilla organization that is using armed struggle to achieve justice. This outdated method has been tried unsuccessfully many times. Carol Prunhuber has written a remarkable book about Ghassemlou titled The Passion and Death of Rahman the Kurd. It is a comprehensive review of the history of armed struggle in Iranian Kurdistan.
Carol has gathered her information from various reliable sources ranging form personal observation in Kurdistan to legal documents and interviews with many politicians from around the world. To name a few, Ben Bella, the former president of Algeria, Talibani, the current president of Iraq, Bani Sadr, the former president of Iran, Ghasemlou himself, and his successor Sharafkandi, the general secretaries of KDPI are among the interviewed. Carol describes the life style, the hardship, and the sacrifices of Kurdish freedom fighters known as pishmerga and the manipulative, aggressive, and merciless behavior of the Iranians towards them even during negotiations.
She writes about the passion and death of many Kurdish pishmarga leaders from Simko to Ghassemlou, or Rahman the Kurd. Rahman had asked to write in his biography that he was born when Simko was murdered. In fact Rahman was born in 1930, the same year when Simko was murdered by an Iranian emissary during peace negotiations. Carol writes: