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Iran-Kurdistan: Thousands in Mahabad
protests the killing of Qadri
13.7.2005
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IRAN-Kurdistan,
July 12 - Thousands of Kurds protested the murder of
the Kurdish youth Shivane Qadri by Iranian Pasdarans
and paramilitary Village Guards in the city of
Mahabad in eastern Kurdistan.
Demonstrations have been held at the 'Independence
Square', 'Freedom Square', Felekeya Sida, Sima, Mela
Cami and Mewlewi in the city of Mahabad. Thousands
of Kurds have joined the demonstrations. Kurdish
youth has also attacked the home of the Kurdish
Islamic cleric Mullah Sohrabi who is known for his
close ties to the Iranian government.
Shivane Qadri was killed on July 9 in the district
of 'Pisttep' in the city of Mahabad. Iranian troops
together with 60 Kurdish paramilitary Village Guards
had approached Qadri and a group of young Kurds
sitting by a small fountain. Qadri had stood up and
greeted the soldiers and asked them what was going
on. The troops had shot Qadri in the foot without
any warning.
"When he approached the soldiers, he was shot in the
foot. He tried to escape telling the soldiers to not
shoot. But they shot him again but this time in the
stomach. A third shot hit him close to the
testicles. He was still alive and the soldiers tied
him to a military vehicle and dragged him around the
city", Qadri's brother Ebubekir Qadri said to the
Kurdish news agency MHA.
Shivane Qadri was known as a leader among the
Kurdish youth and had organized protests against the
Iranian government. During the presidential
elections in Iran, he had organized the destruction
of ballots in three different voting centrals in
Mahabad to protest the elections.
"The state is tried to scare the Kurdish youth by
killing Shivane. But Shivane became a greater symbol
and the youth is on their feet now", a youth who
called himself 'Hiwa' told MHA.
Protests against the killing of Shivane are
continuing in the city of Mahabad. Hundreds of
militant youths have organized attacks against homes
of Kurdish collaborators working with the Iranian
government. A spokesman for the youth states that
they have taken precautions against Iranian military
and police operations against the youth and that
they will continue with their protests and actions.
www.dozame.org
Iran security forces kill youth at point blank,
drag body in town Tue. 12 Jul 2005
Mahabad, Iran-Kurdistan, Jul. 12 – Iran’s
State Security Forces on Sunday opened fire at
youths in the north-western volatile Kurdish town of
Mahabad, leaving one young man dead and several
others injured.
A group of friends were walking at an avenue in
Independence Square in Mahabad at 22:30, when they
were approached and attacked by an SSF convoy,
plain-clothed Islamic vigilantes, and a number of
agents of Iran’s dreaded Ministry of Intelligence
and Security (VEVAK), according to several
eye-witnesses.
The SSF fatally shot a young man by the name of
Shavaneh Qaderi and critically injured two other
individuals.
The security forces then proceeded with tying
Qaderi’s body to a Toyota jeep and while driving
dragged it in streets, according to the witnesses.
“This barbaric and inhumane act was carried out to
scare everybody so that they stop their
anti-government protests”, said one witness, who
requested to remain anonymous.
“Shavaneh was always active in demonstrations
against the regime. Whenever there was a protest, he
was always on the frontlines”, said another
witnessed, who claimed that he was a friend of
Qaderi.
Minutes after Qaderi’s body was dragged throughout
the town, several hundred local angry residents
gathered in nearby streets and started to chant
anti-government slogans.
Anti-riot police were brought in from the
neighbouring towns of Miandoab and Naqadeh to stop
the escalation of protests.
Several large anti-government demonstrations have
rocked the town of Mahabad in recent month.
Residents believe that with the arrival of
ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the new
President of Iran, security forces will have a freer
reign to suppress dissent.
Ahmadinejad recently rejected a request by Kurdish
Members of Parliament to allow ethnic Kurds into his
cabinet.
www.iranfocus.com
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