Collections In Time: Kurds as Victims of the Iran-Iraq War - Still going on and took a new drive in connection to the Bilderberg conference in Istanbul 2007, in Iran, Turkey, all over the region, just as the attacks in Iraq

More Victims of the Iran-Iraq War

Now actively promoting condemnation of Iraq for its use of chemical weapons, Iran has well earned its characterization as "no slouch in the atrocity game." Though Iran's internal Kurdish problem captured headlines in the New York Times back in 1981, the warfare that continues even today between its forces and Kurdish guerrillas led by Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou has long been a dead issue in the press.

In this chronic war, more than 25,000 indigenous Kurds have been driven from their villages, their homes burned and pillaged and Pasdaran (Iranian military) stationed to keep them from returning.

Thousands of Kurds, including civilians, have been detained, tortured and executed. A particularly grievous Iranian action was brought to our attention back in September 1983 through a report of the Federation of the Rights of Man in Paris. Failing to gain the consent of the Khomeini government to investigate allegations that some 59 Kurdish civilians had been executed at Urmiah, the organization mandated an observer to make a clandestine visit. When the observer arrived, 15 persons had just been executed in Mahabad prison. Between August 22 and 25 of that year another 48 civilians were killed; 19 were young girls.

Prior to the executions their bodies had been drained of blood. The federation's observer came upon the following directive issued on 3 October 1982 by the Chief of the Revolutionary Procurers: "We have given a secret order that medical equipment be used to draw blood secretly from individuals condemned to death and whose punishment is to be carried out expeditiously. Blood will be put into containers to be sent to a dispensary as soon as possible for a bloodbank to benefit the wounded. This act is not in violation of Islamic principles because the Imam Khomeini has ordered it."

The federation raised the question: "Were 450 Kurdish civilians executed since the beginning of 1983 simply to make use of their blood?"

In a space of 10 months between December 1982 and September 1983, the federation estimated the number of Kurdish fighters executed at 1,339 and the number of civilians at 1,500.

The report quoted one Kurdish mother who lost two sons to execution: "Khomeini thinks all Kurds are fighters. Can anyone then not fear to become his victim?" Christian Rostoker, the federation's director, drew this conclusion: "There is no doubt that for a majority of the people executed, they are killed for one crime: being Kurdish in the Islamic Republic of Iran." That was five years ago; nothing has changed since then for the nearly 5 million Kurds in Iran.

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