Jawad Mella was born in 1946 in Damascus to an activist family who was deported from Northern Kurdistan (Kurdistan of Turkey) to Syria after the World War I.
His grandfather Mella Muhammad was a religious Muslim and a patriot. He built a mosque in his village Bedwan in the Diarbaker area that is still standing.
His father Ibrahim Mella was an activist in the Kurdish Khoiboon Party with Prince Jaladat Baderkhan that led the Kurdish revolution in the Aghri Mountains in the years 1927 – 1930.
After the failure of the Aghri revolution, Prince Jaladat Baderkhan and the Dr Jawad’s father together with others tried twice to declare a Kurdish state in the Western Kurdistan.
The first time during the French mandate times and the second time during the coup by General Husni Al-Za’eem in 1949. These attempts failed and they participated in establishing cultural clubs and publishing Kurdish newspapers in Damascus such as Hawar and Runahi in Beirut.
In such a patriotic and revolutionary atmosphere Jawad Mella grew up with Kurdish books and writings of his father surrounding him. This was his biggest incentive to involve in the patriotic work early in his life.
For his activities Jawad Mella was arrested by the Syrian Intelligence services for the first time while he was very young and was tortured in the worst barbaric way.
Jawad Mella worked for Kurdish Community in Kurdistan and abroad for about 50 years. He was a former political prisoner and a freedom fighter.
Jawad Mella has written about 20 Books about Kurdistan in Arabic and in Kurdish some of them have also been translated into English.
Jawad Mella established Kurdistan National Congress in 1985. He wanted it to be an umbrella organisation to UNITE ALL KURDISH PARTIES and to sit down to chart a united strategy for Kurdish problem and rights.
They organised several meetings but faced many difficulties because some parties would attend the meeting and other won’t. The next meetings it would vice versa. That’s why so far they have not been successful to unite all the parties.
Jawad Mella pledges to continue the struggle to unite the Kurds on one table, because the only way to gain freedom is the unity of the Kurds, without unity it impossible to have freedom.
In 1985 Jawad Mella along with Professor Jemal Nebez, General Aziz Akrawi, Professor Muhammad Saleh Gabori, Dr Muzafar Partoumah, Sheikh Latif Mariwani, Professor Salah Jmor, Sheikh Darwish Hasso and others from all parts of Kurdistan established Kurdistan National Congress, working for the Kurdish Community in Kurdistan and abroad for about 50 years.
We had people from all parts of Kurdistan. We are very patients and we’ll wait to have the unity one day because unity is very important. Before to deal with the occupiers of Kurdistan we should deal with our people themselves and be united and then talk about others.
The occupiers of Kurdistan use different tactics against our unity. They pay money to some people to work against each other and they make division between among us. In Syria we are about 4 Million Syrian Kurds but we have more than 100 Kurdish parties and organisations. They are not real parties. When I was member of KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) in Syria 1964, at that time we had only one party in Syria but now after exactly 40 years we have 100 parties.
