Reasons for holding the conference

After the situation changed in Iraq, relations between the Kurdish leadership and the President of the Republic of Iraq, Abd al-Karim Qasim, deteriorated. On September 11, 1961, a decision was made to launch the national Aylul Revolution against the government's oppression.

With the outbreak of the revolution, party and organizational work once again took a secret form, and activities continued in hiding. The Iraqi government began expelling and arresting members of the Party, and the arrests included members of the Kurdistan Students Union extensively, especially those who were studying in the colleges of Baghdad and southern Iraq.

During this period, a large number of members of the Kurdistan Students Union joined the revolution, starting from the members of the organization's leadership and below, and joined the mountains of Kurdistan.

Managing the conference work

As a result of the arrest and martyrdom of some of its leaders and members, in March 1962, and in order to reorganize themselves and evaluate the situation imposed on the organization, the Kurdistan Students Union held a secret conference in Baghdad and issued several decisions. Among the conference's decisions was to support Aylul Revolution and to pay attention to the professional and scientific problems of the students of Kurdistan, where Haidar Hamza continued his struggle in the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union as secretary, and a new secretariat was elected by the conference delegates as follows:

 

1- Sarur Kaka Hama

2- Mamoun al-Dabbagh

3- Ahmed Sharif Lak

4- Haidar Hamza

5- Fuad Mullah Mahmoud

6- Adel Nasser

7-  Tayeb Jabbar Barwari

8- Hikmat Khanaqini.

The most important decisions of the conference were to support the Kurdish revolution and its leader and to provide what it could to the Peshmerga Forces. Organizing new students joining the ranks of the revolution. Paying attention to the participation of Kurdish students in professional and academic organizations.

 Sources and footnotes:

1- Irfan Aziz Aziz, Congresses and Conferences of the Kurdistan Students Union, First Edition, (Erbil - Rojhalat Press - 2012), p. 35.

*- Regarding the location of the conference, different opinions are observed. In some sources, it is indicated that the conference was held in an area of Kurdistan, but the location was not mentioned and has not been verified. Majid Hassan Ali, The Kurdish Student Movement in Iraq (1926-1970), Master's Thesis/Salahaddin University in Erbil 2008, Spirez Publications, (Erbil - Haji Hashim Press), p. 146.

2- Ahmed Sharif Lak, Analysis of Historical Events: Several Pages from the History of a Nation, Volume One, First Edition, (Erbil - Rojhalat Press - 2016), p. 105.

3- Sasan Awni, Kurdistan Students Union: Aspects of Struggle and History, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Press - 1998), p. 23; Majid Hassan Ali, Previous Source, p. 146.