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Iran kills PEJAK rebels in Iranian
Kurdistan
6.1.2008
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January 6, 2008
Kermanshah, Iranian Kurdistan,-- Iranian
security forces killed a number of foreign-backed
rebels in its western Kermanshah province, which has
a substantial population of minority Kurds, the Fars
news agency reported Sunday.
"A saboteur gang which was equipped and organised by
foreign intelligence services was dismantled last
night," deputy Kermanshah governor Hojatollah Damyad
said.
"In last night's clashes, some of these
counter-revolutionary elements were killed," he
said, adding that the fighting took place in an area
between Ravansar and Kamyaran,www.ekurd.net
about 100 kilometres (60
miles) from the Iraqi Kurdistan region border.
Damyad said the group, which had been formed to
"create insecurity and discontent in the region and
block the government's services to the people" was
stopped before it could carry out any operations.
Iran's Kurdistan, Kermanshah and West Azarbaijan
provinces, which have substantial Kurdish
populations, have been the scene of clashes between
Iranian forces and Kurdish separatist militants of
the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan or PJAK.
The Kurdish rebel group PJAK (Party of Free Life of
Kurdistan), has been behind a string of deadly
attacks on the Iranian revolutionary guard in
(Iranian Kurdistan), northwestern Iran in recent
months.www.ekurd.net
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.
PJAK, which is linked to the Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK) fighting the Turkish army, has been
behind a string of deadly attacks in the Kurdish
northwest Iran in recent months.
Tehran has repeatedly accused the United States of
seeking to stir up ethnic unrest by providing
material support to PJAK and outlawed rebel groups
in other sensitive border regions.
AFP
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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
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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.
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