By
Hamma Mirwaisi and Alison Buckley
General Amir Ahmadi by Sepahbod Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi
Looking
back on some of the most brutal episodes in Kurdish history, even the most
casual enquirer must question the motives and forces behind the animosity of individual
Persian figures towards the Medes -- today's and yesterday's Kurds, Lurs,
Taylish, and other Aryan peoples of the Middle East and Asia. Equally as deeply
disturbing is the occurrence of the same patterns in the modern era. Originally
recorded by Darius the Great in his description of his crimes against the Medes,
Persians, and other Aryans, they were later adopted by Persians of another but
no less reprehensible persuasion, whose ostensibly innocent but self-interested
designs have created significant challenges in ensuing Middle Eastern power
configurations. Tragically, from Darius' day on, Aryan history recorded many
others like him, including Amir Ahmadi, last century's Iranian butcher of
Luristan.
The
suffering of the descendants of the ancient Medes including Kurds, Lur, Taylish, and others started with Darius, who raised the cruelty bar to great levels.
These continue now in the era of the Islamic Republic of Iran under the rule of
the Arab Islamic Shi'a Sayyied families.
On
the Mount Behistun cuneiform inscription in Kermanshah, Iran, Darius the Great boasted
of his murder of most of the Zoroastrian magi priests, who had been the chief
repositories of living knowledge of the Airyanem civilisation. He then killed a
large number of Aryan people and most of their leaders. Darius, in Behishtan
(DB), Column 2 (line 70-76), described what he did to the Median King Phraortes
(Fravartish), grandson of Shahan Shah Cyaxares the Great, the forefather and
liberator of the Aryan Kurds from the Assyrian Empire, known by his people as Kayxesraw
the Great.
Darius
wrote, "Then we fought the battle, alert,
right now, we defeated them all as a group, we are under his shadow, Darius is
the king and law giver, thereafter this Phraortes with a few fighters and horsemen
fled; to a district named Rag- [note: Rey, Tehran of today was in the middle of
Kurdish people land during Median Empire], in Media -- his forces fell apart, he
went off. Thereafter, people were working for me, I sent an army in pursuit, he
disappeared; Phraortes, seized, was led to me. He was supposed to be my local Median
king, right now, I am, as you can see, cut off his ears, his nose, and take out
one of his eye; he was alive, kept bound at my palace entrance path, where I
was going to work, to see. Afterward I impaled him at Ecbatana; and the men who
were his foremost followers, those at Ecbatana within the fortress I flayed and
hung out their hides, stuffed with straw for people to see, he was not smart.'
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Almost
2436 years later, while working for Reza Shah Pahlavi, General Ahmed Amir-Ahmadi
committed similar crimes against humanity. Judge William O. Douglas, long-serving
US Supreme Court member, who recorded his experiences in his journey through
Iran in the 1950s, described them as follows in his book, Strange Lands and Friendly People:
I asked the old man, "And what
about Amir Ahmadi?'
He was afraid to talk about
colonel Ahmadi; I assured him his name wouldn't be published.
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