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120 Iranian police killed last year by
Kurdish rebels
20.4.2006
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Iranian police have
killed two members of a banned Kurdish rebel group
operating close to the border with Turkey, Iran's
state television reported.
The two, killed late Tuesday, were described as
members of the Pejak group who were trying to
infiltrate Iran's West Azerbaijan province.
Iran says Pejak is linked to the outlawed Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a 15-year
insurgency against Ankara for self-rule in Turkey's
mainly Kurdish southeast (Kurdistan-Turkey), AFP
noted.
Reports have said at least 120 Iranian police were
killed and scores wounded in Kurdish rebel attacks
last year, many of them blamed on Pejak.
Iran is bound by treaty with Turkey to fight PKK
militants on its soil in return for Turkey fighting
the Iranian armed opposition group, the People's
Mujahedeen.
Iran has blamed US-led forces in neighbouring Iraq
for a recent upsurge in violence among the Kurdish
and Arab communities in its western border
provinces.
Pejak Kurdish group and Iranian Kurds are fighting
for more rights and self-rule in (Northwest Iran)
Kurdistan-Iran.
AFP | Iran Mania
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