Introduction

Azadì (Freedom) is the humanitarian and independent association for the solidarity with Kurd people; it has been founded in Catania in 1993 and it is registered in the General Provincial Registry of the voluntary service organizations. His main purpose is the solidarity with the Kurd people so that “the Kurd tragedy” goes further the press indifference, the public opinion, the International organizations, and is aimed at getting Kurd people to have the right to exist.

The Kurd tragedy, which the International community is looking at, lacks a global political solution. Information about Kurd people’s reality, (independently from the national borders where they live, and thanks to exhibitions, discussions, meetings, concerts, shows), is the non-violent way of peace instigating the National and International organizations, that are the subjects deputed to put an end to the continuous slaughter (women and children included!) in the Kurdistan.

The Gulf War has led the Kurd tragedy, for the first time, to the public opinion, to the international policy and it itself has become one of the central problem of the Middle Est. However the Kurd tragedy is ancient and the list of the slaughters undergone is long. In the past, the International Community has been impassive at the Kurd people’s slaughter committed by Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
The problem was not born with the Gulf Crisis, but it has remote roots in the history, dating back to the last century European Colonialism. Then, largely, the present pains of the Kurd people is due to the great powers of Europe, that the day after the First World War had split up the Kurdistan and had given the destiny of the Kurd people to governments more and more repressive and dictatorial.

Today, the capture of Abdulla Ocalan, the Kurd people’s leader, is a real betrayal with regard to the Kurd people and its cause. Regarding to this fact, the Association expresses a great worry to his destiny.

Any way of humanitarian help is precious, nevertheless the real solution to face this very heavy situation is the reintegration of the people in his normal, social and economical good order.

To cooperate to the Kurdistan reconstruction is one of the purpose of the association, which in his active years has realized some solidarity expeditions in the refugee fields, creating also some projects of school improvements and of help to the peasant micro-economy; but especially it has created a real solid bridge leaving the geographic distance out of consideration.

The Association’s behaviour is often restricted to some Kurdistan areas because of the political and military fights of the several Kurd parties that make rather difficult and almost impossible the passage of volunteers in some of the refugee fields.