Amineh Kakabaveh

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Amineh Kakabaveh
Member of the Riksdag
In office
18 June 2008 – 26 September 2022
ConstituencyStockholm County
In office
16 February 2008 – 17 June 2008
As a substitute MP
ConstituencyStockholm County
Personal details
Born (1970-12-06) 6 December 1970 (age 53)
MA)
OccupationSocial work

Amineh Kakabaveh (

Iranian Kurdish descent.[4] Having been a member of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan since her youth, she took refuge in Sweden at the age of nineteen and has become a member of the Riksdag
, Sweden's parliament.

Early life

She was born in Saqqez, Iran,[2] and had seven siblings.[5] As a child, she worked to sustain her family.[5] At the age of thirteen, she joined the Kurdish guerilla Komala, where she was trained as a fighter.[3] This early experience of assuming responsibility and the hardships of life in the mountains made her more mature.[3] Later, she fled over Turkey and Greece to Sweden.[4] Having found refuge in Sweden at the age of nineteen, she initially worked as a housemaid by day and attended the evening schools.[4] Later, Kakabaveh graduated with a Master of Science from the Stockholm University in philosophy and social sciences.[4][6]

Political career

Inspired by the French movement

Member of Parliament in 2008.[8] In 2019, she was threatened to be expelled from the Left Party as a result of a prolonged conflict with the party leadership. Before the issue was settled, she left the party voluntarily.[9]

Parliament members cannot be expelled by their parties, so she remained as a member of the parliament. After the

extradited due to her support of Kurdish organisations.[11]

Political positions

As a politician and opinion maker, Kakabaveh is involved with topics such as honour crimes, women's rights, and secularism. Her work has made her a controversial person within Swedish politics and her own Left Party, but she has also received the title of "Swede of the Year", as awarded by Fokus.[12] In 2017, the Left Party opposed her voicing concern over patriarchal clan structures in Swedish suburbs, alleging that it would lead to further Islamophobia; according to Kakabaveh, the party tried to prevent her re-election to the parliament.[13]

After the fall out within the Left Party in 2019, Kakabaveh resigned her party membership and remained a member of the parliament as an

Andersson Cabinet.[14]

Personal life

Video of Kakabaveh presenting herself

She has been threatened in the past, and according to herself she has also received protection by the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO).[8]

Autobiography

Her autobiography Amineh – inte större än en kalasjnikov (Amineh – Not Bigger than a Kalashnikov) was published in 2016, detailing her time with the Peshmerga.[15]

See also

  • List of members of the Swedish Riksdag

References

  1. ^ Bozarslan, Mahmut; Bila, Sibel Utku (22 February 2016). "How one Kurdish woman went from child soldier to Swedish lawmaker". Al-Monitor. Archived from the original on 29 March 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "Amineh, vänsterpolitiker med en tuff bakgrund flydde kriget som 14-åring" [Amineh, Left Party politician who fled the war at age 14]. Passagen. 7 July 2014. Archived from the original on 2 September 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "Laying Kalashnikov to Rest, Amineh Kakabaveh Fights On". rudaw.net. Rudaw Media Network. Archived from the original on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d "Laying Kalashnikov to Rest, Amineh Kakabaveh fights on". Archived from the original on 16 December 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  5. ^ a b Baksy, Kurdo (4 June 2022). "Amineh Kakabaveh: Perschmerga im Parlament". Der Freitag (in German). Archived from the original on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  6. ^ a b Dilaklı, Selay (19 May 2022). ""NATO has never brought safety to the world"". Bianet. Archived from the original on 19 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Den feministiska och antirasistiska gräsrotsrörelsen". Varkenhoraellerkuvad.se. Archived from the original on 2 November 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  8. ^ a b c "Sweden 'naive' about integration: ex-Peshmerga Swedish MP". France 24. 8 September 2018. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Kakabaveh lämnar Vänsterpartiet" (in Swedish). 29 August 2019. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  10. ^ Milne, Richard; Jackley, Ayla Jean (20 May 2022). "Sweden's Nato ambitions run into Kurdish row". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  11. ^ Turkisk ambassadör vill att Kakabaveh utlämnas Archived 12 June 2022 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish).
  12. ^ "Årets svensk - Fokus". Fokus (in Swedish). 15 December 2016. Archived from the original on 26 January 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  13. from the original on 12 February 2023. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  14. ^ "Independent MP Kakabaveh withdraws support for Social Democrats". Sveriges Radio. 20 May 2022. Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  15. ^ "Amineh – inte större än en kalasjnikov : från peshmerga till riksdagsledamot - Ordfront förlag". Ordfrontforlag.se. Archived from the original on 26 July 2017. Retrieved 12 July 2017.

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