The Kurds, the Americans and the Demands of Liberty

The Statement of Kani Xulam At the Human Relations Day North Dakota State University (NDSU) Memorial Union Fargo, North Dakota Thursday, January 18, 2001 I want to start by thanking Megan O’Rourke and Kara Stack of North Dakota State University for their kind...

The Kurds and their Torturers

The Statement of Kani Xulam At the Symposium on the Human Rights Crisis in Turkey Sponsored by Amnesty International USA The Portland State University & Reed College Portland, Oregon Thursday, November 1 & 2, 2000 On October 18, 2000, Amnesty International...

An Address at the 13th Annual KNC Conference

San Diego, California July 29, 2000 Rojbas! Xusku birayen delal: I want to start by thanking Kak Saman Shali, the organizer of the 13th Annual Kurdish National Congress (KNC) conference and Kak Fouad Darweesh, the President of KNC, for their kind invitation to address...

The Statement of Kani Xulam at San Mateo Unitarian Church

Sponsored by: San Mateo County Peace Action San Mateo, California May 1, 2000 I want to start by thanking Jerry Fuchs, Ron Zucker and Hamdi Ugur for inviting me here tonight. I also want to thank the board of directors of the San Mateo County Peace Action for agreeing...

A Glimpse at Evil in America

The Statement of Kani Xulam At Lucie Stern Community Center Palo Alto, California April 20, 2002 Late last year, I got an e-mail from a person who said he had seen the documentary, “Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends, But the Mountains” on PBS and wanted to...