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Iranian artillery shells Kurdish PJAK
rebels in Iraqi Kurdistan
13.3.2008
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March 13, 2008
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', --
Iranian artillery shelled Thursday border villages
in Kurdistan region 'northern Iraq' where Iranian
Kurdish PJAK rebels are believed to be operating,
according to a local official.
Iranian artillery shelled Thursday morning seven
villages in the area of Qala Diza in Sulaimaniyah
province in Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region,
Hassan Abdallah, the head of Qalit Diza council told
VOI.
The Iranian artillery shelled Razka, Mara, Shenawa,
Banki, Di Khonga, Wadi Shirwana and Wadi Tsewi in
Sinkser and Zarawa border regions in Qala Diza
district,www.ekurd.net
northeast of
Sulaimaniyah, Hassan Abdullah said. |
Iranian artillery shelled Thursday border villages
in Kurdistan region |
The shelling continued for over two hours and caused
no casualties, the official said.
The army of neighbouring Iran frequently shells
Kurdish villages in the mountains of Sulaimaniyah
where it says rebels from the Party of Free Life of
Kurdistan (PJAK) are based.
Iran used to shell border areas in Qalaat Daza, 135
km northwest of Sulaimaniyah under the pretext of
tracking down PJAK fighters.
Turkey, also, was shelling border areas in
Kurdistan, the northern Iraqi province of Duhok
under the pretext of fighting members of imprisoned
leader Abdullah Ocalan's Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
PJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan), Since
2004 PJAK took up arms for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdistan province northwestern of
Iran. Half the members of PEJAK are women.
Kurdish rebel groups are believed to be operating
from northern Iraq where Iraq's Kurds established an
autonomous Kurdistani government, which is part of a
federal Iraq.
Iraqi Kurdistan politician says, both Turkey and
Iran are using
Turkey's Kurdish separatist PKK rebel group (Kurdish
freedom fighters) and PJAK as an
excuse to invade Kurdistan region 'Iraq' to prevent
the establishment of Kurdistan state in the Kurdish
autonomous region in 'northern Iraq',www.ekurd.net
Turkey and Iran fears
this could fan separatism among its own large
Kurdish population.
Since 1984 the PKK took up arms for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey. A
large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise
with the Kurdish PKK rebels.
The PKK demanded Turkey's recognition of the Kurds'
identity in its constitution and of their language
as a native language along with Turkish in the
country's Kurdish areas, the party also demanded
an end to ethnic discrimination in Turkish laws and
constitution against Kurds, ranting them full
political freedoms.
DPA | VOI | Agencies
Iranian Kurdistan
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Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana Īranź or
Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatź
Kurdistan (East of Kurdistan)) is an unofficial name
for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has
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.
The region is the eastern part of the greater
cultural-geographical area called Kurdistan.
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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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PJAK
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
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