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PJAK: clarification of AFP article
“Kurdish rebels in Iraq threaten to attack Iran”
23.4.2008
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April
23, 2008
Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK), April 21, 2008
Press release
PJAK commander Ronahi Ahmed in a press release
stated that the
AFP article by
Mr. Shwan Mohammed “Kurdish rebels in Iraq threaten
to attack Iran” does not represent PJAK policies and
her statement. She said
that PJAK policy is to defend the Kurdish and
Iranian peoples against the oppression
and attacks of the oppressive Iranian Islamic
Republic and struggle to establish a Democratic
Confederation of Iran.
Clarification:
1. PJAK is based mainly inside Eastern Kurdistan and
Iran, not in Iraq. It depends on the support of the
Kurdish and Iranian people. It is a democratic
national movement for the Kurds in Iran. Its aim’s
are to unite the Kurdish and Iranian opposition,www.ekurd.net
to change the oppressive
Islamic regime in Iran and to establish a free
democratic con-federal system for the Kurds and the
Iranian peoples. “Changing of the regime to a
democratic system in which all citizens; Iranians,
Kurds, Azaries, Baluchs, Turkomans and Arabs and all
other ethnic groups within the framework of the
democratic system, can govern themselves.”
2. PJAK is in self defense and does not launch any
military cross border attacks from Iraq. All of the
operations inside Iran are in self defense and to
protect our people from the Iranian security and
revolutionary Guards forces continues atrocities and
forced assimilation. |
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 (Iranian Kurdistan, Eastern KURDISTAN). Half the members of PJAK
are women. |
3. PJAK is not a rebels organization. PJAK is a
political massive national democratic movement of
the Kurds in Iran. PJAK strategy is to use all form
of struggle; political, social,www.ekurd.net
economic, nonviolence
civil disobedience, human rights, NGOS and to carry
arms in self defense etc,. “PJAK is always
continuing the work and struggle needed to achieve
an increase in the level of intelligence, a
democratic organization of people as well as
practice of the democratic values, to achieve a
radical type of democracy and to be able to launch a
system of democratic confederacy in eastern
Kurdistan.”
4. PJAK is a self sufficient and independent
organization. It depends on the Kurds and Iranian
people support, contrary to the Iranian dictatorial
regime misinformation campaign that PJAK getting
help from the USA and the west. We again declare to
the public opinion that PJAK did not receive any
help from any country including the USA. We depend
on the support of our people and on our
organization.
It is time to put stop to the atrocities and human
rights violations of the Iranian Islamic oppressive
regime.
We call upon the international community to help the
Kurds and the peoples of Iran in their struggle for
democracy, freedom and peace.
Information Center of PJAK.
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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 (Iranian Kurdistan). Half the members of PJAK
are women.
Iranian Kurdistan
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Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana Îranę or
Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatę
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.
More about Iranian Kurdistan
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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