Suleiman Moini

Suleiman Moini
Born
Mahabad

1933
Iran
Died1968
Iraq
NationalityKurdish
Other namesFaiq Amin
Known forPolitics
PartnerMaryam Yazdanfar

Suleiman Moini was an Iranian Kurdish political activist. After the collapse of the 1946 republic, the political activities of the Kurds in Iran declined. Some of the 1946 political activists to went to Iraqi Kurdistan and later joined the rebellion of Mustafa Barzani in the 1960s.[1]

Suleiman Moini, in spite of being young was already an experienced freedom fighter. In the 1960s, he had been the most respected member in the KDPI collective leadership. For eighteen months, during 1967 and 1968, the KDPI led an armed combat against the Shah's heavily armed troops. In the end, the majority of its members were massacred. The party was decapitated.[2]

Suleiman's remains, riddled with bullets, were attached to a ladder with a notice around his neck that said: "Suleiman Moini - this is how traitors die". The regime's hired ruffians carried the ladder with his body from village to village to dissuade the population from opposing the Shah.[3]

  1. ^ M. Gunter, Michael (22 June 2020). The Kurds in the Middle East. Lexington Books, 2020. p. 214. ISBN 978-1793613592.
  2. ^ McDowall, David (15 January 1996). A Modern History of the Kurds. I. B. Tauris. p. 504. ISBN 978-1850436539.
  3. ^ Krulich-Ghassemlou, Helene (2017). Love against all Reason. LIT Verlag Münster 2017. p. 118. ISBN 978-3643909220.