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Kurds in Iran-Kurdistan need a safe zone
14.3.2006
By Vladimir van Wilgenburg Journalist - Netherlands
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Hundreds of protesters
arrested, dozen injured in East-Kurdistan (Northwestern
Iran), after Iranian troops opened fire on the
demonstrates. Several thousands of Kurdish
population of the city of Piranshahr
(East-Kurdistan) protested against the killing of
Fayegh Rajabi a Kurdish toiler by security forces of
Iran.
Thousands of Kurdish residents of the city of
Piranshahr protested over the killing of a Kurdish
toiler by security forces on Saturday, March 11,
2006.Security forces opened fire to control the
demonstration, which resulted in the injury of
dozens of protesters. Reliable sources from the city
stated that the conditions of some of those injured
are critical, as they are in hiding fear of
persecution by the security forces. Furthermore,
over 200 people are arrested by the security forces.
Angry protesters set fire to the authorities’
vehicles and stoned government buildings. The Gharz
al Hasane bank of government was set on fire by the
protesters.
Piranshahr has been under Marshal Law since
Saturday.
Since July 2005, over 50 Kurds have been killed by
the Special Forces of the Islamic Republic during
numerous demonstrations in the Kurdish cities and
towns. To date, approximately two thousand people
have been arrested and over 500 people have been
injured. In a single incident, the security forces
killed at least 10 Kurdish demonstrators in the city
of Maku on February 15th, 2006. |
The Terror of Islamic Iran on Kurds in Kurdistan
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The ongoing human rights violation in East-Kurdistan
(Northwestern Iran) are not isolated incidents. It
is rather a result of persistence and systematic
oppressive policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
against Kurdish people and the people of Iran in
general.
The Kurdish opposition party KDP-I urges the
International community, in particular EU, United
States and members of Security Council to take the
human rights situation of the Kurdish people of East
Kurdistan very seriously. Condemning the human
rights violation against Kurds by the Iranian regime
is the minimum that the Kurdish people expect from
the International community.
In the meanwhile Kurdish asylum seekers from
East-Kurdistan are threatened by deportation by the
Dutch government. It's probable the same in the rest
of Europe. A Kurdish asylum seeker said to me, the
Dutch Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND)
are still using old documents of the time of Iranian
president Khatami (reformer). I gave him the recent
annual US human rights report about Iran. (Read
more 2005 Human Rights Reports (released March 2006)
and here 2005 (Released
November 2005).
I hope he isn't deported back to East-Kurdistan,
because Iran is known for hanging political
prisoners.
An example of this, is a Kurd I spoke too called "Zamani".
The Turkish government deported his brother to Iran.
As a result he was executed. His parents, brothers
and other members of his family were killed by the
Iranian government and therefore he fled to Holland.
Out of despair, when he didn’t get a response from
Turkish embassy employees, why his brother was
deported, he acted in fury. As a result he will have
to face trial.
I urge the EU, America and the Dutch government to
treat Kurdish asylum seekers from East-Kurdistan (Northwestern
Iran) well, to stop working together with the
Iranian Mullah regime and stop trying to solve the
nuclear crisis on a "diplomatic way". Also European
and Western countries should ban exports/imports
from Iran. I also hope the International Community
demands that Russia and China stops the support for
the Iranian Islamic regime.
Unlike the Persians in Iran, the Kurds are not
"Iranian patriots". The Kurds in Iran/East-Kurdistan
and the Azeri's in Azeribajan need "safe zones" to
be protected against the Iranian regime.
The safe zones that used to be designed to protect
Kurds in Iraq (1999), should be applied to the Kurds
in East-Kurdistan (Northwestern Iran). Also the
oil-rich province Khuzestan should be protected by a
safe zone. The Arabic people there also want
freedom.
Recently the American blogger Michael Totten
interviewed some Kurds in Biara, South-Kurdistan.
Here the terrorist group Al-Islam Ansar was
supported by the Iranian government ”The Iranian
government supported them against us,” said Osman
Sadeq Hakim. But thanks to the American/Western safe
zone and the efforts of American soldiers and
Kurdish peshmerga’s, Ansar-Al Islam is driven out of
South-Kurdistan. Kurds in East-Kurdistan are waiting
for Babi Azad and freedom too.
Osman also said that the Iranian government isn’t a
good regime. “It is not a good regime. We do visit
people from there, but we don’t do it officially.”
He also said that South-Kurdistan should declare
independence from Baghdad. “We are a different
people. We have our own history and culture. We will
join with the Iranian Kurds, Inshallah.”
Source:
http://vladimirkurdistan.blogspot.com/
Kurdistan: "South Eastern Turkey" is Northern
Kurdistan. "Western Iran" is Eastern Kurdistan.
"Eastern Syria" is Western Kurdistan. "Northern
Iraq" is Southern Kurdistan
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