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Iranian military kills three Kurdish PEJAK
militias
8.11.2007
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November 8, 2007
Kamyaran, Iranian Kurdistan, -- Iranian
security forces have killed three Iran's Kurdish
PEJAK rebels in the western province of
Kurdistan-Iran, the government daily Iran said on
Thursday.
"Three armed members of the PEJAK terrorist group
were killed in Kamyaran county, Kurdistan province,"
the report said, without specifying when the
incident took place.
It also did not provide identities of the three or
their gender, but only said they were nationals from
a neighboring country and members of the Iraqn's
separatist Kurdish group PEJAK, or Free Life Party
of Kurdistan.
The rebels were identified as "nationals of a
neighbouring country."
Iran's Kurdistan, Kermanshah and West Azarbaijan
provinces, which border northern Iraq, have
substantial Kurdish populations.
The Kurdish rebel group PEJAK (Party of Free Life of
Kurdistan), which believed to be linked to the
Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighting the
Turkish army, has been behind a string of deadly
attacks in northwestern Iran (Iranian Kurdistan) in
recent months.
Since 2004 PEJAK took up arms for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdistan province northwestern of
Iran. Half the members of PEJAK are women. www.ekurd.net
Iran has repeatedly accused the United States of
seeking to stir up ethnic unrest by giving material
support to PEJAK and outlawed rebel groups in other
sensitive border regions.
Iran has echoed Turkey's frustration over the
failure of the authorities in Kurdistan autonomous
region in 'northern Iraq' to crack down on Kurdish
rebels, but says it wants a peaceful end to the
standoff. www.ekurd.net
Tehran does not back Ankara's threats of military
action in northern Iraq, where both PEJAK and the
PKK have bases from which they launch cross-border
attacks into Iran and Turkey.
AFP
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borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes the
greater parts of West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan
Province, Kermanshah Province, and Ilam Province.
Kurds form the majority of the population of this
region with an estimated population of 4 million.
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The present leader of the organisation is Haji
Ahmadi. According to the Washington Times, half the
members of PEJAK are women, many of them still in
their teens, and one of the female members of the
leadership council is Gulistan Dugan, a psychology
graduate from the University of Tehran. This is due
primarily to the fact that PEJAK is strongly
supportive of women's rights. PEJAK believes that
women must have a strong role in government and must
be on an equal level with men in leadership
positions.
More about PEJAK- Party for a
Free Life in Kurdistan
KDPI
The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Kurdish
(Hīzbī Dźmokiratī Kurdistanī Źran) is a Kurdish
opposition group in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks
the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a
democratic federal republic of Iran.
The current
General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan is Mustafa Hijri
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