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Despite the death of more than 4 decades since their departure, the Kurds in Iraq still commemorate the death of Leila Qassem, who was executed by the Baath Party regime on May 12, 1974, as an icon.
And Leila is an icon of the Kurdish national movement, and was executed and buried in Najaf, southern Iraq, according to a report published by the “KMP” website.
The Kurdish militant’s sister had demanded that her remains be re-buried in Erbil, and Sabiha Qasim said Erbil’s land was better suited to house Layla’s remains, and we hope to return her remains from Najaf.
Kassem was executed at a time when the Kurds in northern Iraq were waging a revolution against the Iraqi regime and far from the party’s loyalties.
Leila, a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, was studying at the University of Baghdad and discovered that she belonged to a secret cell operating in Baghdad to inform people about what was happening in northern Iraq.
Leila was born in December 1950 to a Kurdish family supporting the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Mullah Mustafa Barzani, and grew up in Khanaqin, northeast of Baghdad.
On April 29, 1974, Iraqi security forces raided his family’s home in Baghdad in the middle of the night, as he recalls in detail this morning, when “the secret police told them to wait outside his room while wearing pajamas. “, and she ordered her family and said:” They love me because I am Kurdish. “
She was then transferred to the security headquarters, where she decided to incarcerate her in the Abu Ghraib prison on terrorism charges at the time, and had with her 4 other Kurdish students: Hassan Hama Rashid, Azad Miran, Nariman Masti and Jawad Hamawandi, where the Authorities accused at the time that they had planted an explosive device in the cinema.
After a mock trial, authorities executed her on May 12, 1974, when ousted President Saddam Hussein was the second man in government at the time.
Her family says that Saddam offered to allow her to study abroad if she left the subject of political work and the Kurdish subject, which Leila rejected.
Laila, who KMP says is the first political activist in the Middle East at the time, reported that she was singing the Kurdish national anthem as she headed to the gallows.
