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Iraqi Kurdistan Defense troops clash with
Iranian Kurdish PEJAK fighters
29.8.2007
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August
29, 2007
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region (Iraq), --
Fierce clashes erupted on Tuesday between Kurdish
peshmerga forces and fighters of the Iranian PEJAK
(Kurdistan Free Life Party) based on the mountainous
area near the Iraqi Kurdistan borders with Iran,
during which a policeman was injured, a police
source in Penjwen district in eastern Sulaimaniyah
said.
"Kurdish forces clashed on early Tuesday with PEJAK
fighters, during which a peshmerga was injured, in
Penjwen district on borders with Iran," General
Ramadan Abu Bakr said.
Ramazan Dekoni, Penjwen defense forces commander,
said that the clashes resulted from the villagers’
complains in these border areas about the Pejak
militants annoyed them and suppressed them with
showing themselves to Iranian forces to provoke them
the Iranian artillists shell the areas. For this
reason Kurdish Defense forces went to warn PEJAK
militants and demanded to cease the suppression to
the villagers and to evacuate the border areas.
At 3am PEJAK militants attacked Peshmerga forces and
wounded one Peshmerga called (Saman Zarayani), after
that they were defeated and pulled out from the
fights.
PJAK (Partiya Jiyana Azada Kurdistanę in Kurdish or
Kurdistan Free Life Party) is an Iranian Kurdish
military opposition group founded in 2004, said to
be linked to the PKK. PEJAK, although being a newly
established organization, continuously launches
militant operations against Iranian army forces.
PEJAK took up arms for self-rule in the country's
mainly Kurdistan province northwestern of Iran. Half
the members of PEJAK are women.
"We asked PEJAK fighters to leave the region to
avoid the Iranian shelling, in accordance to the
locals' requests." the general highlighted.
Iran has been shelling border areas in Qalaat Diza,
135 km northwest of Sulaimaniyah, Haj Omran, 147 km
northeast of Erbil, and Bachwin district for three
weeks now under the pretext of tracking down PEJAK
fighters, Iranian Kurds who oppose the Iranian
government.
Turkey, on the other hand, was shelling border areas
in Kurdistan region (the northern Iraq) province of
Duhok also under the pretext of fighting members of
imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan's Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK).
Penjwen lies 105 km east of Sulaimaniyah, which is
located 364 km northeast of Baghdad.
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