History repeats itself. In the last several decades, few nations have experiences a great deal of pain and suffering. In the beginning of this century, history witnessed the Genocide of Armenian by Turks. The World was watching the Genocide of Jews by German-Nazi; more than 6 million Jews died between 1933 and 1945.

The common characteristic among those events is that victims were defenseless and the aggressors did with them what they wanted. No mercy and no feelings of guilt.

The Kurds also share the same characteristic. They are defenseless. They can not protect themselves. Once in a while a Kurdish leader from Iran or Iraq becomes strong and demonstrates anger and frustration with Kurds for the unfair treatment from Iran and Iraq.

Kurds always had very limited resources. Their armed struggle for autonomy has ended each time in defeat with increased oppression of Kurdish civilians. This is the nature of a war. If you lose you lose big and your condition will be worse than it was before. This happened to Kurds several times. Every small improvement or change was abolished after a lost war.

One more interesting aspect in liberation struggle of Kurds is that they always relied on the regimes of Iran and Iraq The Kurds from Iran received help from Iraq and the Kurds from Iraq received help from Iran. The problem with this political pact was that both countries used Kurds as their political tool to weaken each other.

Interestingly the Government of Iran and Iraq always stopped their supports for Kurds. When they reached any kind of political agreement. There is a great lesson in this lecture. If someone abuses your friendship and trust, he or she will do it again. You simply have to avoid any close ties with him or her.

There is a wise saying in Kurdish "The enemy of my friend is my enemy, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

The Iraqi Regime kills its own Kurds, how could Kurds from Iran expect any support from Iraq. The world has tried to punish Saddam or Iranian Regime for their crimes on Kurds, but ironically nobody is interested in helping victims of those dictators.

The lack of support for Kurds is once again an indication that a nation has no international rights without having its own country. Even the right to establish a Kurdish Red Cross has been denied. They argue that Kurdistau is not a country, therefore, we can not help them. The International Organizations like the Red Cross help Iran or Iraq.

The Iraqi Regime has displaced forcibly millions of Kurds and replaced them with Arabs. Those Kurds are not eligible for international aids such as the red Cross, because Kurdistau is not a country and those Arabs who displaced Kurds are receiving help from International Organizations.

It's like if you have no passport, you do not exist, you have no rights. The impact of this policy brought Kurds more pain and disappointment especially in the past decade. Kurds have not been very lucky, but partly they are also responsible for their own mistakes. They need to learn from their failures and experiences in the past and find new ways to present their image to the modern world.