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Koy Sanjaq – Kurdistan August 8, 2005
Your Excellency, Mr. Koffi A. Annan,
Secretary General of United Nations
We would like to draw your attention
to the recent peaceful demonstrations by Kurds in Iran within the last
few weeks on the anniversary of our late leader Dr. Abdulrahman
Ghassemelou’s assassination, and to protest against the election of
Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad as the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Islamic Republic of Iran assassinated Ghassemelou on 13th
July 1989 in Vienna, and there are strong indications that Ahmadi
Nejad had a vital role in our leader’s assassination.
Unfortunately, the security guards of
Islamic Republic of Iran, who use oppressive means against Kurds and
spill blood in Kurdish cities, violently cracked-down on the peaceful
demonstrations of Kurds in Iranian Kurdistan. Dozens of protesters
have been killed due to the excessive force of the various security
forces against demonstrators. Listed below are the names of some of
the victims who have been killed by armed forces during the last few
weeks:
1. Sayed Kamal Asfaram, 2. Omar
Amini, 3. Bayzid Mairoufi, 4. Mrs. Jamileh Khezri, 5. Mrs. Hakimeh
Sour, 6. Loghman Nasrollahi, 7. Mohammad Shariati, 8. Ababs Ramazani,
9. Hosein Ramazani, 10. Farzad Mohammadi, 11. Shadman Mohammadi, 12.
Hossein Abdi.
Furthermore, Over 300 people have
been injured so far, and several hundred have also been arrested, who
have been relocated to unknown detention centers, and may indeed be
tortured or ill-treated. So far, four bodies have been handed back to
their families in the city of Mahabad, with clear indications that
they had been tortured.
Currently, all Kurdish provinces -
West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah and Ilam - are under martial
law. The security forces do not hesitate to use live ammunition on
civilian population. Medical staffs are not allowed to treat the
injured people, who are mostly kept in custody for interrogations. As
a result, most people are too frightened to take their wounded family
members to hospitals for treatment. Usually, the families, for fear of
further persecution and maltreatment, do not claim the bodies back
from the authorities. Gatherings of more than two are also prohibited
in public places. The people of Kurdistan are not allowed to travel,
not even to visit family or friends. The security of life and Kurds’
properties are also under threat on daily basis.
Kurdish people are disappointed to
see the disregard of international community to the human rights
violations against them. The Islamic Republic of Iran has been
condemned over 20 times by the UN Commission on Human Rights, yet
there is no improvements in the government’s treatment of Kurds and
other minorities. The recent cruelties against the peaceful
demonstrations in Kurdish cities is further material evidence of this
regime’s brutality against Kurds.
The Kurds, under the leadership of
the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, have long struggled for
freedom, democracy and safeguarding of the rights of different ethnic
and religious minorities in Iran, within a democratic and
decentralized framework in Iran. It is rather unfortunate that the
struggle of all the Iranian people are forgotten and allowed to be
victims of the state.
Regarding the recent events in
Iranian Kurdistan we urge the United Nations to take these immediate
actions:
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A UN delegation of Human Rights
commission to visit Iran and Kurdistan to investigate recent events
in Kurdistan
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The release of all people detained
by the Islamic Republic of Iran during the recent protests
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The injured people to be given
treatment without any fear of detention or torture
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An independent inquiry to be
launched, led by the UN, to investigate the recent killings and
crackdown of peaceful protesters
For the sake of protecting the
civilian Kurdish population and to bring stability to the region,
these are the least actions we expect the United Nations and its human
rights body to take.
We look forward to seeing the United
Nation’s urgent actions.
Yours sincerely,
Mustafa Hejri
Secretary General
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
c.c.:
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
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