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Ahwazi Youth Community
Dear Friends, members of the world youth communities
Young Ladies and Gentlemen
As a member of Ahwazi Youth Community, I would like first to extend our sincere thanks to the Spanish youth authorities for this great festival and at the same time I want to remind all of you that there are millions of youth boys and girls around world are not able join us because they are not able to practice their rights as human, young and can even not be members of such organizations. I for example come from Al-Ahwaz, my homeland which is occupied by Iranian Regime. In Iran there are more than 60% of the population can not join these organizations because they are not allowed to? In Iran a girl can not come to join such festivals and the ethnic minorities are not able to do so. In Iran there are more than 30 million Azerbaijanis, 6 million Kurds, 5 million Arabs, 3 million Balouch and about 2 million Turcoman; all are not able to practice their human rights because they are not Persian.
In Al-Ahwaz, my homeland which located at the South West of Iran, there are 5 million people live with no right to speak their own language, not to wear their own cloths, are not able to right an essay. There is no one singer allowed to sing on the TV or on the radio. There is no news paper to write in or any youth community, women community, labour organization or any support for our children or their mothers.
Dear friends, it is said that old empires were built on the shoulders of the oppressed people, and this principle is true for the colonial powers by its oppression of people of its colonies.
Today these old empires and colonial powers are living side by side with their former oppressed people and people of former colonies. We see Britain attending the commonwealth with its former colonies, and France with its Franco phonic gathering. We see also that states which contain many nations within it border by repression are forced to withdraw or reach a voluntary agreement with these nationalities was transformed into the soviet union and after the dissolution of the soviet Union all states became independent including federal Russia, Yugoslavia is changed way of another to independent states with full sovereignty each one making their contribution to world civilization progress.
Of course there is another example for bring together nations in a union of brotherhood, I mean the EU in which all these nations decided to co-exist under one system in a region where wars between these nations was the norm, in one voluntary union.
All these are examples for decisions taken for a happy life for the people and to grant everyone his just right without injustice and inequality or under occupation, colonial rule or repression.
Despite what have been mentioned before about the possibilities of nations co-existing the current state of Iran pursed in the last 80 years policy of repression and suppression of all demands for freedom by peoples and for their national and human rights. It has persisted in its policy to obliterate the national identity of the peoples and denying their existence.
I will give you a brief account of the situation there, at my homeland Al-Ahwaz without going into the historical events due to the restriction of the time.
The contemporary Alahwaz was an Emirate known as “Al-Mohammara Emirate”, which occupied in 1925.
Al-Mohammara at that time had its own post and telegraph international systems connecting it directly with the British network, two British consulates were established one in Al-Mohammara city“Today called Khorramshahr” the capital of the Emirate and the second one in the city of Al-Ahwaz.
After proclaiming himself Shah of Persia, Reza Shah began his racist policy to personalise Al-Ahwaz. In 1936 he ordered the killing of the imprisoned Emir of Al-Ahwaz in Tehran by strangulation him; he gave his orders to a group of racists to change the names of all Arabic cities and 85% of the villages in Al-Ahwaz.
To efface the Arabic identity in Al-Ahwaz historically, linguistically, and culturally, Demographic changes were carried in favour of non-Arabic race in the region within a systematic planned policy and Ahwazi people forced to seek employment in the Arab Gulf States or forcing many of them to migrant to other part of Iran losing in the process their identity, at a time Al-Ahwaz oil reserves represents the second largest in the world and oil revenue provide 87% of the Iranian Gross National Income.
This policy of impoverishment and agriculture land confiscation has continued during which Arabic farmers were replaced by others for demographical and political objectives, for example, for Sugar Cane Project 125,000 hectares of agricultural land was confiscated and over 11000 workers were employed, more than 8500 of them were brought from Iran interior. In addition a policy to make Hawaiian people homeless was purse as a result of which thousands of them fled the country fearing repression and persecution among them twenty thousands went to neighbouring Iraq following the massacre of Black Wednesday during which over 800 martyrs and wounded were fallen in the city of Almohammara “Khorramshahr”, others fled to the Gulf States and many thousands to Europe, America, and other countries, there is a solid link between the racist policy of the regime and the changing of our region demography.
It is important to bring to you attention the confiscation of rivers and to divert their flow to benefit Iran interior or to political projects that has the objectives of encourage the immigration of non-Arab to Alahwaz, they also continue to sell fresh water to neighbouring states such as Kuwait and Qatar, according to contracts approved in the last 3 years.
One more important crime against our people is currently in implementation, which is the encouragement of the use of the poisoned drug Heroin among our people, in addition to opium, the price of Heroin is so cheap it is the same as the price of cigarettes about 30 cent of a Dollar, providing the addicts with 24 hours supply of this drug, the dealers are even in the prisons to hook political activists.
The wended the resulted from the racist policy of the regime and dominate culture on one side and the peoples of Iran will not heal by wishes only, but by serious efforts on part of the peoples on one side and the forces of good in the world on the other hand, we expect support to these forces to end the continues bleeding in Iran. Our people and all peoples demand their rights for self-determination, similar to all people of the world so that we can bridge the gap of the development away from suppression, repression and injustice.
Dear friend again we are happy that we are sharing you your happiness, and wish you are not going to forget our young girls and boys who are not able to practice their human rights, then please support them and support our youth community of Al- Ahwaz.
Ahwazi Youth Community
2004-08-10