Komala’s official policy concerning the fight against the drug problems in Kurdistan

At Komala’s 9^th congress, which was held from June till August 2001, the following statement was passed:

Some years ago the use of narcotic drugs became the largest and most serious problem among the youth in Kurdistan.  Because of economical and social problems, the regime in Iran decided to set free the access of drugs for the youth in Kurdistan.  This has been going on through the last 20 years, and the intention was to dim the youth so that they did not revolt against the Islamic regime.

Those responsible for the release of drugs in Kurdistan was the secret police.  They released those who smuggled drugs so that the addiction among the youth would increase.  The Islamic regime and the secret police are cooperating with the drugdealers in selling drugs in Kurdistan.  This means that the Islamic regime for several years deliberately has participated in dealing narcotic drugs to young people in Kurdistan.  The Iranian regime is not only an enemy of the political parties in Kurdistan, but an enemy of Kurds in general.  When they discover a consentrated area of Kurds, that area is caracterized as hostile.  The Islamic regime has made a strategy which deliberately is destroying the future for young people in Kurdistan.  The official policy is one of being against the dealing of narcotic drugs, but secretly they are selling drugs to the youth of Kurdistan.

The youth in Kurdistan are poor and unemployed, and they have no hope for the future.  They have been deprived of all good prospects of education or to have a career of sports.  The youth are not satisfied with the offers of education that they get from universities and highschools.  Several of the core subjects which exist there, e.g. the reading of the Koran, are obligatory, they have to read it.  They have no alternative subjects to choose from.  The youth do not want to read the Koran, but have no choice.  The regime decide all the activities for the youth in their private lives too.  They live so poorly economically that they cannot marry, and the regime has decided that they cannot be together without being married.  Equally, the youth cannot decide for themselves whom they are going to marry.  When a couple are marrying, the boy has to pay a large sum of money to the girl, and this is why so many boys are not able to get married.  Because of the pressure they are living under, and the bad prospects of their future, they get depressed and turn to intoxications like narcotic drugs.

The Islamic regime does not help the youth economically, and they call our youth lazy drug addicts.  They are leading the youth against the use of drugs because they want them to forget their urge to revolt.  Some of the Kurdish youth are both political active and conscious of their situation, and the regime want to put an end to that.

We need now to gather all the good people in Kurdistan, people who are conscientious and are able to stand gathered against this problem.  The people as a whole has to work hard in all layers of society to fight the problem of the use of drugs.  They have to seek help among teachers, doctors, students, youth and children.  All must fight for the overthrowment of the Islamic regime.

More important than everything else is that the youth and children in all parts and layers of society will wake up and start fighting against the trap that the use of narcotic drugs is.  The youth has to take the responsibility to help each other to begin doing sports, theater, the development of artcrafts, and they have to advice each other to get an education so that they are able to stay away from drugs.  The youth has to gather against narcotic drugs.  If a friend is not able to fight the temptation, you must help and support him so that he will choose the right way for their future.

The youth must be strong and fight the government, and they must tell the truth about the regime.  If all youth are gathered against the regime they will be strong enough to fight it.

All good people of Iran must establish an organization which will work against narcotic drugs, so that the problem is not increasing.  Parents and youth that are not using drugs must help the families who has this problem to choose activities which are better for their children.  The good, polite and wise people must talk to the families about the problems of society, and about relief schemes against the problems of drugs in Kurdistan.  Doctors, psychologists and the people working at hospitals must help the affected families so that the abuse can come to an end, and those families can have a better life.  The doctors, psychologists and those who work at hospitals must take their responsibility to solve these problems.

The rich families who have good hearts must help families with a bad economy so that they can live a full life.

We must not forget that if we are working with these things in mind, we will help the children, the economy will be better, and culture will blossom in Kurdistan.  We must try to work for more jobs, insurance against accidents at work, sport areas, freedom of the society and the abilitiy to choose for the people of Kurdistan.  The regime is responsible for the happiness of the people, and that they are able to live a good life whithout being subject to censorship.

Komala is encouraging all oppositionals in political parties and all good people.  Especially we will encourage those who live abroad and those whose hearts are beating for freedom to tell the whole world of the problems of narcotic drugs in Kurdistan.  They have to report the Iranian regime to the United Nations.

As previously mentioned, the people of Komala stand strongly against narcotic drugs, and the society in Kurdistan stand together with Komala to fight the big problem that drug addiction has become.  The fight has to be fought hard all the way to the reach of our goal, a Kurdistan free from narcotics and free from the Islamic regime.

All members and people who sympathize with Komala are hereby encouraged to work actively against the problems of drug problems.

Long live Komala, death to the Islamic regime!