The 45 anniversary of the martyrdom of Laila Qasim
ARK News: On Sunday, May 12, 2019, marks the 45th anniversary of the martyrdom of Laila Qasim who was executed by the former Iraqi Baathist regime in 1974.
A brief details about the History of the Martyr Laila Qasim:
Laila Qasim Hasan Malak Shahi Al-Fayli (Bride of Kurdistan) was born on December 27, 1952, in the village of Masfa in the city of Khanaqin, she spent primary and middle school in her village, and her father (Dalaho Qasim) was a minor worker at the Khanaqin refinery After his retirement, he lived in Baghdad where his daughter taught sociology at the Faculty of Arts and worked in the press. Her brother Sam and her fiancé Jawad al-Hamawandi, and began her struggle in the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the early 1970s and carried out political activities against the oppression of the Iraqi Baathist government. She was arrested along with her fiancé Jawad al-Hamawandi with a number of her colleagues on April 29, 1974, and her colleagues are (Nariman Fouad Misty, Azad Suleiman Miran, Hasan Mohamed Rashid).
On the first visit of her mother and sister after her imprisonment, she advised them to attend her the next visit (scissors and new clothes), after she brought her what she wanted on the second visit, she took the scissors and cut off the threads of her hair and gave it to her sister to remain a memory and witness to her struggle and defiance of death and tyranny, and her sister, who asked her why she asked for her new dress, answered her confidently and with a smile dear sister I will become after a few days (Bride of Kurdistan) so I like to embrace the earth and I am full of elegance.
It was said that during the torture she screamed: "My affair is as a whole of the faithful who sacrificed their pure blood, in order to address the oppression practiced against the Kurdish people, by the sheds of blood power, in Baghdad is a prison, a slaughter, a displacement, and a negation.
She and her fiancé and their accomplices were sentenced to a mock trial and the court sentenced them to death. On May 12, 1974, she was hanged to death without a legal trial and at the same place of detention with less than two weeks after she was imprisoned after her right eye was flattened and her body severely mutilated by severe torture that she exposed during the days of detention.
On the second day of the execution, her body was handed to her family in her new Kurdish uniform and buried in the holy city of Najaf - the cemetery of the Valley of Peace - away from the homes of her family and her childhood and away from the prospect of her memories.
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