Farm aid for the recovery of agriculture

Among the main purpose of Azadì, there is a project of supporting the Kurd refugee farmers to reactivate the rural system destroyed by the war, giving back the lands to the farmers deported into the refugee fields.

From the 80s, 5.000 rural villages have been laid waste with the trinitrotoluene by Saddam Hussein’s troupes. The Iraqi dictator, sure of the silence of international diplomacy, accused the farmers of connivance with Kurdistan armed resistance. It was a sort of ethnic cleansing action that would have allowed the Arabs near Saddam Hussein to take possession of the richest lands. But the Bedouins have not any disposition for agriculture. Nobody has taken the place of the Kurd farmers.

The attempt to weaken the Kurd resistance is unsuccessful; the desperation that spread among the families deprived of any means of subsistence, has exasperated the hate against the Iraqi dictator.

The Kurd population has a strong disposition for agriculture. Before the deportations, the most of Kurds lived with the agricultural produces. The bombing raids with phosphorus and napalm, the fertile lands of Mesopotamia scattered with mines, and the deportations due to Saddam Hussein have dried-up thousands of hectares of cultivated lands in Kurdistan.

Among the projects just subsidized thanks to a previous presence of Azadì in Kurdistan, there is that of bee-keeping. Several beehives have been realized thanks to the funds picked up in Italy.

Turkey has made the same ethnic cleansing policy. Three thousand villages of Turkish Kurdistan have been laid waste with the trinitrotoluene. The refugees needed to escape in the fields of Iraqi Kurdistan, forced by the tanks that Germany had given to Turkey under the treaty of the Atlantic alliance.

The campaign of extermination keeps on over the border. Turkish troupes often cross over the demarcation line in order to make war actions in the refugee fields of Iraqi Kurdistan. In this situation, almost always the press is absent and the international community is disinterested.

In the last years, with the help of numerous European non-government organisations, a part of villages has been rebuilt, but still today there is still a lot to do for this very difficult economical situation.

Azadì tries to help the farmers because, in the Middle East, Kurdistan is the wealthiest country in natural resources. It is a very rich land in waters, nursed from the mountains’ snow’s thaw.