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Iranian artillery shells border villages
in Iraqi Kurdistan Region
19.3.2008
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March 19, 2008
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', --
The Iranian artillery shelled some border regions in
Qalaat Daza district in Sulaimaniyah province, 364
km northeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday morning
without casualties, a senior official said.
“The Iranian forces shelled this morning Razka,
Mardo, Shenawa, Serkoula and Basi regions in Zarawa
in Qalaat Daza district, northeast of Sulaimaniyah,”
Azad Wasou, director of Zarawa, told Voices of Iraq.
“The Iranian army pounded these regions on the
pretext of the presence of Kurdish PJAK fighters,
Iranian Kurds who oppose the mullahs’ regime in
Iran,” he explained. |
Iranian artillery shelled border villages
in Kurdistan region on Wednesday |
PJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan), Since
2004 PJAK took up arms for self-rule in Kurdistan province northwestern of
Iran (Iranian Kurdistan). Half the members of PJAK are women.
Iran used to shell border areas in Qalaat Daza, 160
km northwest of Sulaimaniyah; Haj Omran,www.ekurd.net
147 km northeast of
Erbil; and Banjwin district, 96 km northeast of
Sulaimaniyah under the pretext of tracking down PJAK
fighters.
Iranian military also on March 13,
shelled three Iraqi border
Kurdish villages.
The nearly 3,000 PJAK fighters then started their
armed struggle against the Iranian authorities, with
the aim of "building federalism for Iran's
Kurdistan."
VOI | Agencies
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