Qazi Muhammad acted as the President of the Soviet backed Republic of Mahabad, in Kurdistan of Iran, (Eastern Kurdistan) in 1946. He was also the founder of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, the PDKI, that was established after the need for a more transparent party was felt by its adherents. (Komeley Jiyanewey Kurd existed prior to that, as a secret organization). Mustafa Barzani, the father of the nationalist Kurdish movement in Iraqi Kurdistan (Southern Kurdistan), was also the commander of its army. His cousin Mohammed Hossein Saif Qazi was a minister in his cabinet. A year later, after the Soviets withdrew from Iran, the Kurdish Republic was crushed by Iran's central government. The Iranian military court sentenced Qazi and some of his associates to death, and he was hanged in Chwarchira Square, in the center of the city of Mahabad, on March 30, 1947. One of his sons Ali Qazi is today an active member in the Kurdish movement.
Qazi Muhammad's daughter, Effat Ghazi-Muhammad, was killed by a letter bomb in her apartment in Västerås, Sweden, in 1990. The bomb was addressed to her husband, the Kurdish activist Amir Ghazi. The Iranian government is widely believed to have ordered the assassination.[1][2]
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If an Ajam (Kurdish for Iranian government) gives you honey, there is poison in it for sure! (original quote:????? ????? ??? ??? ??? ?? ?? ??? ???? ????? ??? ?? ?? ???? ????)
I am not similar to the effeminate Pishevari, to abandon my nation and land! (original quote: ?? ???? ??? ?? ??? ????? ??? ? ???? ?? ??? ???)
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