September
14, 2011
ERBIL-Hewlêr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — A Kurdish citizen has
been injured by Iranian artillery shelling, that
resumed, on border villages of northern Iraq’s
Kurdistan Region in Erbil Province on Tuesday, a
source reported on Tuesday.
“The Iranian artillery has resumed shelling border
areas of Kurdistan Region, especially Choman
township of Erbil Province, on Tuesday afternoon,
wounding one civilian and causing huge damage for
his house,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq
news agency.
The Iranian bombardment of Iraqi Kurdistan’s border
areas had continued since more than 2 months,
under the pretext of chasing the PJAK rebels,www.ekurd.netor
(Party of Free Life of Kurdistan), killing and injuring many
Iraqi Kurdish
civilians and causing
damage for dozens of houses and agricultural fields.
Human Rights Watch said on September 2, that it had
evidence that Iran
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A Iraqi Kurdish security personnel inspects a hole
in a house caused by Iranian shelling near Qandil
mountain, a border zone in Kurdistan region of Iraq.
August 23, 2011. Photo: Reuters |