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Iraqi VP denounces neighboring countries'
shelling of Kurdistan villages
27.8.2007
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August 27, 2007
Baghdad, Aug 27,-- Iraqi Vice President Tareq
al-Hashimi denounced artillery shelling of Iraqi
Kurdistan region villages by neighboring countries,
calling for inking balanced security agreements with
those countries.
"Neighboring countries' artillery shelling of our
Kurdish people in border villages in Iraq's
Kurdistan region is unjustifiable. There has to be
urgent solution for the growing 'terrorist'
activities on the borders on one hand and
self-restraint by neighboring nations on the other,"
Hashimi's office announced in a statement on Monday.
"Balanced security agreements with neighbors would
be the optimal solution to realize security and
stability for people who have suffered a lot from
the former regime," said Hashimi, noting the (Iraqi)
government has to shoulder its responsibility of
protecting its people and territories in the best
way possible. |
Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi |
Iran has been shelling Iraqi
Kurdistan border areas in Qalaat Daza,
135 km northewest of Sulaimaniyah, Haj Omran, 147 km
northeast of Erbil, and Banjwin district, 96 km
northeast of Sulaimaniyah for two weeks now under
the pretext of tracking down PJAK fighters, Iranian
Kurds who oppose the regime of mullahs in Iran.
Turkey, on the other hand, was
shelling border areas in Iraqi Kurdistan
(northern Iraq) province of Duhok also under the
pretext of fighting members of imprisoned leader
Abdullah Ocalan's Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Since 1984 the PKK took up arms for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey. Turkey
is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds.
Kurdish politician says, Turkey is using a Kurdish
separatist PKK rebel group as an excuse to invade
Kurdistan region (Iraq) to prevent the establishment
of Kurdistan state in the Kurdish autonomous region
in (northern Iraq).
Kurdish sources said the shelling caused damage in
property and fires in Kurdish forests.
PJAK (Partiya Jiyana Azada Kurdistanę in Kurdish or
Kurdistan Free Life Party) is a Kurdish military
opposition group founded in 2004,
PEJAK, took up
arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdistan
province northwestern of Iran. Half the members of
PEJAK are Kurdish women.
PJAK, although being a new established organisation,
continuously launches militant operations against
Iranian army forces so that in 2005, just during
less than 6 months killed 120 Iranian Islamic
revolutionary guards and tens wounded.
VOI
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