Circumstances and Causes

On December 6, 1949, Nuri al-Said's cabinet took office in Iraq. This cabinet repressed all secret and national parties and organizations by declaring customary law. KDP was not exempt from this blow. Hamza Abdullah, the secretary of KDP, was arrested in Slemani and taken to Baghdad. Dr. Jaafar Mohammed Karim, a member of KDP Political Bureau, has been stripped of his Iraqi citizenship and deported to Iran. Ibrahim Ahmad, the head of KDP Committee branch in Slemani, ad Omar Mustafa, head of the Baghdad regional committee, was sentenced to two years in prison. Rashid Abdulqadir, a member of KDP central committee, was sentenced to three years in prison, and Auni Yousef, a member of the KDP central committee, was sentenced to one and a half years in prison. A number of other active KDP members, including Nuri Ahmad Taha, Saleh Dilan, Helmi Ali Sharif and Ghafoor Rashid Daragha, were arrested and sentenced. A number of central committee members, including Saleh Yousfi and Rashid Bajalan, resigned, which weakened the KDP organizations.

At that time, in the early 1950s, a group of KDP members, including Ali Abdullah, member of the Political Bureau, Bakr Haji Ismail, Abdulkarim Tofiq, Mohammed Amin Ma'roof and Omar Habib Abdullah supervised by Mr. Zadi Koya, the second vice-president of the KDP tried to form an interim central committee, reorganize the party and pave the way for the party's general congress. However, this committee failed to fulfill its duties. At that point, the Baghdad Regional Committee was more active, so it did not approve the decisions of the Koya meeting and directly called for a general congress, but instead, a general conference of the party was held.

Holding a conference

In the early 1950s, the conference began in Baghdad with representatives from Sulaimani, Baghdad, Halabja, Kirkuk, Mosul and Koya, as well as Ali Abdullah and Auni Yousef as two of the leadership members. A weak interim leadership was formed at the conference. The interim leadership included Ali Abdullah, Auni Yousef, Ali Hamdi, Saleh Rushdi Tahir, Mustafa Karim Ghafoor, Mohammed Musa Sadiq and Nuri Mohammed Amin.

With the exception of Ali Abdullah, most of the others from the new interim leadership were unable to work. Saleh Rushdi and Mustafa Karim betrayed the party. Mohammed Sadiq was still a secondary school student and Nuri Hama Amin left the party. Therefore, this conference also failed to achieve its objectives.

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