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Iranian shelling of Iraqi Kurdistan region
continues
23.3.2008
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March 23, 2008
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', -- The
Iranian shelling of border areas in Iraqi Kurdistan
region is ongoing but left no casualties, the
chief of the border district of Zarawa said on
Saturday.
"The Iranian artillery shells, which began on
Wednesday, are targeting the villages of Rizka,
Mardo, Shinawa, Sorkola, Basti, and Spikola of the
Qalaat Daza border district, (160 km) northeast of
Sulaimaniyah. The attacks left no casualties but
forcibly-displaced inhabitants of eight villages,"
Azad Wasso told VOI.
"The Iranian army is shelling these areas under the
pretext they harbor the PJAK fighters," Wasso added. |
Iranian artillery shelled border villages
in Kurdistan region on Saturday. |
PJAK an Iranian Kurdish
party (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.
PJAK is a member of the Kurdistan Democratic
Confederation (Koma Civakęn Kurdistan or KCK),www.ekurd.net
which is an alliance of
Turkey's outlawed Kurdish PKK groups and divisions
lead by an elected Executive Council.
Led by Haji Ahmadi, the PJAK's objective is to
establish a semiautonomous regional entities or
Kurdish federal states in Iran, Turkey and Syria
similar to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
in Iraq.
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."
Iraqi Kurdistan politician says, Iran is using
Kurdish separatist PJAK as an
excuse to invade Kurdistan region 'Iraq' to prevent
the establishment of Kurdistan state in the Kurdish
autonomous region in 'northern Iraq',
Iran fears
this could fan separatism among its own large
Kurdish population in (Iranian Kurdistan).
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan's cultural capital and one
of the KRG's three cities, lies 364 km north of the
Iraqi capital Baghdad.
VOI | Agencies
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