Dr. Jawad Mella The Colonial Policy of the Syrian Baath Party in Western Kurdistan Publication of Western Kurdistan Association London 2006 - 1 - Dr. Jawed Mella The Colonial Policy of the Syrian Baath Party in Western Kurdistan The First Lieutenant Muhammad Talab Hilal, the head of the Political Branch in Hasaka, wrote a manuscript more than forty years ago, explaining the broad lines of how to put an end to the existence of the Kurdish people in the occupied Western Kurdistan by Syria and it was under the title: “It is a Study about the Hasaka Province from the Ethnic, Social and Political Aspects”. As a result of this study, he became a Minister and a leading figure in the Baath Party and Syrian regime, as a reward for his racism and chauvinism Publication of Western Kurdistan Association - London 2006 - 2 - Dedicated To masses of the Kurdish people All leaders of parties and organisations and Kurdish personalities in Kurdistan And to masses of the Arab people The heads and kings of Arab states The leaders of parties and organisations and Arab personalities I dedicate this book so that they know the truth about the Kurdish cause and what is plotted behind the scenes in the name of some and without the knowledge of some of them. Let everyone know that the Kurdish cause is not about changing this regime or that, but it is the cause of Kurdish people and their homeland Kurdistan that have been divided and colonised. There shall not be peace and security in the Middle East without reclaiming the violated rights of the Kurdish people of freedom and independence for Kurdistan among which is the part occupied by Syria. - 3 - - 4 - Contents The Kurdish cause by Jawad Mella ................................................. 7 The complete text of Muhammad Talab Hilal’s book ................... 63 Footnotes, analysis and commentary by Jawad Mella................. 228 Notes by Sheikh Umar Gharib ..................................................... 267 Kurdistan Federalism by Dr Ahmed Rasoul................................ 293 Hilal is the godfather of the Syrian Nazism by Dr Alan Kadir.... 299 Baath Party between past and present by Asad Usso................... 336 Rojava Kurdistan Radio and KNC............................................... 339 Memorial...................................................................................... 345 The Western Kurdistan Government in Exile...............................352 Appendix of documents, maps and pictures .................................421 Author’s biography ...................................................................... 443 - 5 - - 6 - .......................................................................................... .......................................................................................... .......................................................................................... The Kurdish cause and the policies of the chauvinistic Baath party in Syria The book with the title “A Study about the Hasaka province from Ethnic, Social and Political Aspects” is a secret Baathist security study and was written in 1963 by the First Lieutenant Muhammad Talab Hilal, head of the Political Branch of secret police in Hasaka. It is time now to publish it and put it to the readers with commentaries for the sake of truth. There are many reasons as to why this book has not been published by the Kurdish liberation movement in Syria and not refuted up to now. It is true that there has been important were the studies by Dr Ismet Sharif Wanly in English and French and a writing by Dr Omar Mrif Gul in Kurdish language and others. Today I present the full text of the Muhammad Talab Hilal’s book with a study and evaluation because it is the time to regain our stolen Kurdistan and our lost rights. The book of Muhammad Talab Hilal contains a complete racist plan to get rid of the Kurdish existence in the western part of Kurdistan that became under the French mandate after the World War I, and under Syrian occupation since 1946 up to this date. The book of Muhammad Talab Hilal was followed by a long chain of Syrian racist and chauvinist orders and acts against the Kurdish people that are still active (as the Arab belt, - 7 - exceptional census and changing the demographic features of the Kurdish region etc.) There are also further additions on the daily basis or confirmations for the previously issued policies. So, the book of Muhammad Talab Hilal is an example for the racism of the Syrian regime and the Syrian police state that carries out a psychological warfare against the Kurdish people in order to humiliate the Kurdish personality and break the Kurdish solidarity according to the policy and program set by Muhammad Talab Hilal. The purpose of his accusations against the Kurdish people is to put the Kurdish people on the back foot and weaken their psyche so that they cannot defend themselves against the great current of accusations poured upon them and not to think about any offensive plans that are indeed lacking in the agenda of the Kurdish liberation movement. Although such a wild attack on the Kurdish people cannot be stopped without a counter- offence. Probably there are other racist books in Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan. However, the racist Syrian regime looks into the contents of this book of Mohammed Talab Hilal. Hilal was awarded the highest medals and orders and he jumps straight away from a small officer in the intelligence services in a remote region far from the line lights and centres of decision making to become a minister and then member of the High Regional command and the National command of the Arab Socialist Baath Party that rules Syria. As the proverb says (like birds of a feather stick together) such Regimes need such kind of (thinkers). This book is up till now an important subject of studies in graduating - 8 - officers of the Syrian intelligent services with only few amendments on it here and there. Also it is regarded it has been for the last half a century one of the most important and essential books on the desks of the heads of the Syrian intelligence organs in Aljazeera region. - 9 - A brief historical overview about the Kurdish people in Western Kurdistan. The existence of the Kurdish people and their homeland Kurdistan is an historical, geographical, civilisation and cultural fact that distinguished them from other peoples in the region and any attempt to falsify this fact is not only a discrimination against the Kurdish personality but also a violation against the human civilisation as a whole because the human civilisation is a mosaic of different peoples civilisations and any counselling or negation of people is a falsification against the civilisation. This is stated by the international treaties and also by the Godly laws. As it is stated in the holy Koran, that the languages are symbols from the god of Allah, that means anyone that fights against the Kurdish language is in reality fighting against God and His symbols that is how important the peoples and their languages are. Several Kurdish states and Empires were built by the Kurdish people homeland Kurdistan during a history that goes back for thousands of years. However, when the time of the Islamic Empires started the Kurdish people were forcefully annexed by them although their Kurdish Princes kept their right to rule in Kurdistan within those Empires up until the nineteenth century, when the Ottoman Sultans started weaving conspiracies against the Kurds and the most - 10 - important of the Kurdish Princedoms that were destroyed by the Turks during the nineteenth century were Botan, Baban, Soran, Badinan and Hasankiev Princedoms especially this last one had it’s Princes and rulers from the dynasty of Kurdish Sultan Saladin Ayoubi. Nowadays the Turkish regime is trying to build a dam besides the remains of Hasankiev in order to drown them by water forever and the reason being is that this are Kurdish remains and there is a planned scheme to destroy the ancient sides of the Kurdish people’s civilisation and it is certain that had Hasankiev being Turkish, the Turkish regime would not have done such a thing ever. During the World War I in 1916 the secret agreement of Sykes-Picault with the participation of Britain, France and Tsarist Russia was signed in order divide the possessions of the Ottoman Empire between themselves. Among those possessions were the Arab and Kurdish lands so they divided the Arab land into several states to be under the British and French mandate as for Kurdistan it was divided into five parts and each part was annexed to a neighbouring state “Syria, Iraq and Turkey”. As for the eastern Kurdistan it was under the Iranian occupation since the battle of Chalderan in 1514 AC. In 1917 the Bolshevik revolution under the command of Lenin uncovered the secrets of Sykes-Picault agreement and thus Russia lost most of its parts of Northern Kurdistan which was as annexed to the Turkish state. Although the part of Kurdistan that remained belonging to the Soviet Union was the smallest, never the less Stalin submitted to the demand of the Turks to displace the Kurds and destroy their republic, and spread them all over places - 11 - like Moscow, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Georgia and other republics of the Soviet Union. The Kurdistan villages and areas were destroyed. Those were the areas that later became a war and confrontation area between Azerbaijan and Armenia after the fall of the Soviet Union. This unjust a despotic division put Kurdistan under the