Sulaymaniyah: Photo exhibition demonstrating the Kurdish uprising

Art and Literature 01:41 PM - 2021-03-08

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On Monday, the Sulaymaniyah Organizations Center of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) opened a photo exhibition on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Kurdistan people's uprising against the fallen Baath regime.

 

The exhibition was held at the Amna Suraka National Museum gallery in Sulaymaniyah.

 

The photos show documents and moments of the 1991 Kurdish uprising.

 

On March 5 of the year 1991, the town of Ranya in Sulaymaniyah governorate witnessed the first spark of the courageous uprising of the people of Kurdistan. The uprising expanded to reach the city of Sulaymaniyah on March 7, where the whole city has risen and its people managed to fully control the security and administrative departments in it, and the Baathists fled and collapsed in the face of the painful blows that the brave fighters of the uprising had given them, and thus the city of Sulaymaniyah was liberated on March 8, 1991, while the sun of the uprising became brighter and brighter to reach Erbil on March 11, 1991, and was able to remove the complete darkness that was hanging over this city like all other cities in the Kurdistan Region.

 

Then, the sons of the uprising continued to progress on the path to victory and liberation that they sacrificed their pure blood for to liberate several cities, Dohuk, Koya, Shaqlawa, Halabja, Amedi, Makhmur, Zakho, Akre, Darbandikhan, Kalar, Chwarta, Penjwin, Sayed Sadiq, and all districts and suburbs of the Kurdistan Region to end up in the city of Kirkuk, which they liberated on March 20, 1991, thus ending the last stage of this heroic and immortal journey, which culminated in an evident victory and achieved the lofty goals for which the uprising was launched.

 

 

 

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