The regressive dark-minded regime of Iran hounded the Revolutionary Guards and it’s military force on Kurdistan in order to mislead the legitimate demands of the Kurdish nation and to weaken the power of belief of the Kurds with unprecedented brutality. It sought to suppress this brave and aware nation by invading Kurdistan. Kurdish people had two options to counter this cowardly act: either they would withdraw from their goals and aspirations or they would have prevented the realization of the regime’s evil and reactionary goals by defending their legitimate ideals and to sacrifice their life for their ideals, which were freedom and equality. To achieve this serious matter, they chose the second path, which was to achieve freedom and to rise from oppression with courage and bravery. In this holy way,they built a stronghold against the jihad (fighting incredulous in Islam) that the rulers had ordered for the brutal attack on the Kurdish nation. The blood of the defenders of freedom irrigated Kurdistan. In contrast, the regime escalated invasion, killings, and massacres. The choice of the regime to counter this legitimate self-defense of Kurds was the destruction and massacre of the people of Kurdistan
Ebrahim Amini was one of the young people who sacrificed his life and youth along with other victims of this crime for his ideals. He withered like a flower. He was born in 1338(1959) in the village of “Borhan” in the province of Mahabad. Ebrahim’s mother “Rogheyeh Babadini” and his father “Ali Amini” got a son, but fate and the powers of horror and dark thinking took him away from them later. Due to the centralist policies of the Pahlavi dynasty and the deprivation of the cities and villages of Kurdistan, Ebrahim, like many of the children, did not have the opportunity to go to school and study. He just learned to read and write.
Ebrahim was forced to work with his family to earn a living. The feeling of persecution and marginalization of deprived people had become a sadness of Ebrahim’s life. The people’s revolution and the popular uprising against the monarchy had created a free political atmosphere for the people in Kurdistan. It created an opportunity for Ebrahim to identify himself with the ranks of the Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and to join them. He recognized that the policy of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan was in line with his ideals and campaign goals. It did not take a long time and he consolidated his position in the Party. As a successful and efficient person, his name was on everyone’s lips. His heartiness and warm character was the most prominent trait of Ebrahim that made him popular and loved by everyone. Ebrahim was known by the nickname “Khabat” (struggle) among other Peshmerga and members of the Democratic Party.
Ebrahim Khabat and his comrade Ebrahim Mangoor were besieged in a house in the Majburawa district in Mahabad on 12/1361 (February 1982) by armed forces. A woman named Maryam had betrayed them. Unfortunately, his comrade was shot dead at the beginning of the attack and shooting. He defended himself with the utmost courage. Unfortunately, due to the severity of his injuries, he fainted and was captured. He was transferred to the prison of the Revolutionary Guards. He was tortured in cowardly and inhumane ways for several months.
Among those in charge of Ebrahim’s imprisonment and torture were Jalaeipour, the governor of Mahabad, and Mehdi Abbasi, a mercenary and traitor. In the early spring of 1362 (1983), Ebrahim was transferred to Urmia Prison, known as Darya Prison. In the first permitted opportunity, Ebrahim’s parents visited him and saw the traces of torture and bruises on Ebrahim’s face and body from behind the thick glass. They talked to him on the phone.
The Islamic Republic shot 59 young people to death on 12/3/1362 Iranian Calendar (2nd. of June 1983) as an unprecedented act of genocide and terror. Ebrahim Amini was one of these memorable heroes. Narratives from the families of the victims reveal the fact that all 29 of them were shot together singing the anthem “Ay Raqib” which is the national Kurdish anthem. They encountered death with pride und fearlessness. When the families heard the news of the executions, they hurried to seek the obscure fate of their children. They found the announcement of this mass execution on the entrance of governorate and some other neighborhood of the city. They hurried to Urmia to receive at least the corpses of their children. At this time, too, the inhumane regime of Iran showed its atrocious face. The corpses of those 59 people were not returned to their families. The authorities gave them only the address of the “Wadi Rahmat” cemetery in Tabriz. Each time they uttered a contradictory word and casted doubt among the families of the victims in an odious way. Once they said that they had been executed and their bodies were buried in an allegedly cemetery. Sometimes they said that they were still alive and the families should look forward to them to return home. A lot of mothers and fathers were happy to hear this lie from the regime’s mercenaries in the hope that they would hug their children again one day. The regime intended to harass the families of the victims and to prevent any legal action of the families at home or abroad to reveal this crime and to demand justice.
May the memory and name of Ebrahim Khabat and all those who sacrificed their lives for the ideals of their freedom seekers be eternal.
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