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Amineh Kakabaveh
Member of the Riksdag
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 June 2008
Constituency	Stockholm County
In office 17 June 2008 – 16 February 2008 As a substitute MP
Constituency	Stockholm County
Personal details
Born	(1970-12-06) 6 December 1970 (age 54) Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, Imperial State of Iran
Political party	Independent (since 2019)
Other political affiliations	Left Party (until 2019) Komalah
Alma mater	Stockholm University (MA)
Occupation	Social work

Amineh Kakabaveh (Template:Lang-fa; born 6 December 1970) is a Swedish independent politician of Iranian Kurdish descent. Having been a member of the Kurdish guerillla Komala in Iran since her youth, she took refuge in Sweden at the age of nineteen and has become a member of the Parliament of Sweden.

Early life

At the age of thirteen she joined the Iranian Kurdish Komala, where she was trained as a fighter. As to her own account, this early experience of assuming responsibility and the hardships of life in the mountains made her more mature. Later she fled over Turkey and Greece to Sweden. Having found refuge in Sweden at the age of nineteen, she initially worked as a housemaid by day and attended the evening schools. Later Kakabaveh graduated with a MSc from the Stockholm University in philosophy and social sciences.

Political career

Inspired by the French movement Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whores nor Doormats), Kakabaveh, in 2005, founded the feminist and anti-racist organization Varken hora eller kuvad. In the pariamentary elections of 2008 she became a member of the Swedish Parliament. 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.

Parliament members can't be expelled by their parties, so she remained as a member. But after the 2018 election, the socialist coalition with the Left party as support had one member more than the opponents, so when Kakabaveh became party-less, the government lost their majority. In the 2021 Swedish government crisis Kakabaveh did not want to support the government. Only after agreeing to some political demands from Amineh Kakabaveh concerning support of Kurds and criticism of Recep Tayyip Erdogans treatment of Kurds, the government headed by Magdalena Andersson could be elected. After the Swedish application to NATO, Turkey required Kakabaveh to be extradited due to supporting Kurdish organisations.

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 magazine. She demands a better treatment for the about 400'000 immigrants Sweden has received since 2012 and in 2018 she saw the immigration policy as naive, and not efficient enough. She is opposed to the NATO accession of Sweden, due to her own experiences of war, exclaiming “NATO has never brought safety to the world“ and is a defender of the Swedish policy of non-alignment. In May she ended the agreement with the Governing Swedish Social Democratic Party (S/SAP) as parts of it she did not see fulfilled.

Personal life

She has been threatened in the past and according to here has also received protection by the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO).

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.

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. ^ "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. ^ "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. ^ "Laying Kalashnikov to Rest, Amineh Kakabaveh fights on". Archived from the original on 16 December 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
5. ^ Dilaklı, Selay (19 May 2022). ""NATO has never brought safety to the world"". Bianet.
6. "Den feministiska och antirasistiska gräsrotsrörelsen". varkenhoraellerkuvad.se. Archived from the original on 2 November 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
7. ^ "Sweden 'naive' about integration: ex-Peshmerga Swedish MP". France 24. 8 September 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
8. Thomsen, Dante (28 August 2019). "Amineh Kakabaveh utesluts ur Vänsterpartiet" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
9. Milne, Richard; Jackley, Ayla Jean (20 May 2022). "Sweden's Nato ambitions run into Kurdish row". Financial Times. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
10. Turkisk ambassadör vill att Kakabaveh utlämnas (In Swedish)
11. "Årets svensk - Fokus". Fokus (in Swedish). 15 December 2016. Archived from the original on 26 January 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
12. "Independent MP Kakabaveh withdraws support for Social Democrats". Sveriges Radio. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
13. "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.

External links

• Amineh Kakabaveh at the Riksdag website

• 1970 births
• Living people
• Left Party (Sweden) politicians
• Members of the Riksdag
• Women members of the Riksdag
• Swedish people of Iranian descent
• Swedish people of Kurdish descent
• Swedish politicians of Iranian descent
• Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan politicians
• 21st-century Swedish women politicians
• 21st-century Swedish politicians
• Kurdish Marxists
• Kurdish communists
• People from Saghez