Shafaq Ruqaiya Faily

Layla Qassim sacrificed herself on the altar of the Kurdish issue to enter the history through the widest doors …

About this great character, and her good exploits Sabah Qassim her brother said, about her in an interview with Shafaq that:"martyred Layla Qassim loved life and liberty and the features of her

Interest in the Kurdish case started with her since childhood. She completed primary and intermediate schools in the city of Khanaqin, and then we moved to Baghdad and she completed` the preparatory phase and the university there, to start a new phase in the political struggle. "The family was not fully aware of what she was doing when arrested then deposited in Abu Ghraib prison. They were not allowed to visit her until few days before execution. Only her father was allowed to visit her and the conditions were very difficult in prison." "After the former regime arrested her and her colleagues, it showed them on the screen of the television, claiming they were designing to blow up cinemas in Baghdad,. That was pure fabrication and a justification for his crimes for they came and arrested her at night without knowing the reasons.

He pointed out that "After the former regime executed Layla Qassim they prevented us from establishing ceremony of mourning her, and from visiting her grave either" .He denied that any of the officials of the Kurds, visited her grave or initiated in building it . After the fall of the dictatorial regime the family restored and reconstructed the tomb."  He demanded from the Regional government to provide him the opportunity to visit the tomb of the martyr.