26 years have passed since the death of the militant Kanaan Agid ... his life and struggle

ARK News: On May 11, 2022, the Kurds recall the passing of the 26th anniversary of the death of the militant Kanaan Agid, the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria (the current Kurdistan Democratic Party - Syria). That brilliant fighter who has endured for many years with his companions: Secretary Haj Daham Miro - Muhammad Nazir Mustafa - Muhammad Amin Sheikh Gulin, Khalid Mashayekh - Abdullah Mulla Ali - Muhammad Fakhri, and Hamid Haj Sino in the prisons of dictatorial regimes, demanding the removal of injustice and persecution from the people Kurdish, and recognition of its legitimate national rights in the country, and the reversal of the decision of the Arab Belt in 1970.

The founder and head of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria, Dr. Noraddin, says: “Kanaan Agid showed great courage in prison, refusing to carry out the orders of one of his executioners, which led the executioner to direct more of his painful strikes.

A brief about his life and struggle:

Canaan Agid entered the battlefield of life and assumed his responsibilities, as a young boy who does not exceed thirteen years of age after the death of his father, "Agid Agha" in 1952.
With the founding of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria in 1957, Kanaan became one of the active members in its ranks. In 1960 the security forces of the "Unity regime" authorities arrested the leadership of the party and thousands of its members, and "Kanaan" was one of those detainees. In 1964 he was arrested again.

The founder and head of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria, Dr. Noraddin Zaza (with whom he was detained in the same cell), states in his book “My Kurdish Life or the Cry of the Kurdish People”: that Kanaan Agid showed great courage in prison, refusing to implement the orders of one of his torturers to strike an elderly Jewish man who was detained with them, prompting the executioner to direct more of his painful blow to the face and body of Kanaan.

In 1970, the militant Kanaan Agid was elected as a member of the interim leadership of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria. At that time, a new phase of the struggle for the rights of the Kurdish people in Syria began. Kanaan Agid was then at the height of his partisan and political giving, but the Ba’ath regime authorities put an end to that activity and enthusiasm, especially the Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria - “Al-Party” – which had issued a statement about the Arab Belt Project that was aimed at: depriving the Kurds of their lands and then Displacing them, where the statement demanded an end to this tragedy. The response was swift, as in 1973, the authorities arrested the members of the leadership (the secretary Haji Daham Miro - Kanaan Agid - Muhammad Nazir Mustafa - Muhammad Amin Sheikh Gulin, and three of the advisory committee are: Khalid Mashayekh - Abdullah Mulla Ali - Muhammad Fakhri, and after four years the leader Hamid Haj Sino was arrested. All of them were kept in prison for eight years. This was a major blow to the Kurdish Democratic Party and to its overall activity in the Kurdish community.

Kanaan Agid Agha died in Aleppo on May 11, 1996, after long suffering from a terminal illness. His body was held in a solemn funeral to his last resting place in the cemetery in the city of Derik in Syrian Kurdistan.

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