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    Kurdish party reports Iranian army bombardment of border pasture areas

    Ozgur Politika website, Neu-Isenburg
    2 Jun 05

    Text of report by German-based Kurdish newspaper Ozgur Politika
    website on 2 June; subheading as published (report by Mesopotamia
    News Agency's Sherko Mahabadi in Mahabad entitled "Iranian Military
    Bombs Mountain Pastures"; Mahabad is in eastern Iran, near the Iraqi
    and Turkish borders)

    The PJAK [Free Life Party of Kurdistan ] has announced that the
    Iranian military has bombed the mountain pastures between Qandil
    Mountain and East [i.e., Iranian] Kurdistan in an operation in which
    thousands of troops took part. It was also reported that Iran has
    been putting pressure on the people in East Kurdistan by utilizing
    Village Guards and "repentants" dressed as guerrillas.

    The Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK), in a statement it has issued,
    has reported that Iranian state forces have staged a large-scale
    operation, in which thousands of troops took part, in the mountain
    pastures between Qandil Mountain and the town of Piranshahr, in East
    Kurdistan. It is stated that hundreds of sheep have been killed and
    a large number of houses and tents have been destroyed in the pasture
    areas, which were bombed with helicopters.

    The PJAK reported that, on 27 and 28 May, the Iranian army conducted
    an operation against the mountain pasture areas between Qandil Mountain
    and the Eastern Kurdistan town of Piranshahr.

    It is reported that in the bombing, which was carried out because
    PJAK guerrillas were there, peasants going up into the [summer]
    pastures have suffered great material losses. It is noted that
    thousands of Iranian soldiers and hundreds of Village Guards took
    part in the operation.

    The PJAK, noting that Iran has recently been taking the operations
    it conducts in villages up into the highland pastures, pointed out
    that Iran has achieved no results in these operations, which have
    been staged against the PJAK, but that civilians were harmed greatly
    in the two-day operation conducted in the Sheykhaisheh region.

    It is reported that peasants whose sheep were killed in the operation
    went to the PJAK headquarters and asked that these operations by the
    Iranian military not be left without a response.

    Pressure on people from "repentants"

    Meanwhile, it has been reported that Iran has been exerting pressure
    on the people in East Kurdistan by utilizing Village Guards and
    "repentants" dressed as guerrillas. It has been learned that, after
    Village Guards in the Salmas, Orumiyeh, and Mahabad regions of East
    Kurdistan extorted money from the people while dressed as guerrillas,
    now in Mako, Village Guards going about dressed as guerrillas, as
    well as a "repentant" by the name of Ali Balkhanlu Milan, have been
    forcing the people to vote in the elections.

    Both Azeris and Kurds live in Mako, which is situated between Turkey,
    Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Nakhchivan. It is stated that the people
    of Mako have reacted against the Village Guards and "repentants" who
    have been engaging in election propaganda while dressed as guerrillas.

    Meanwhile, the PJAK has issued a call to the people and asked that they
    not remain silent in the face of these machinations of the Iranian
    state. The PJAK again called for the elections [in Iran on 17 June]
    to be protested against.
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