The National day of protest to the massacre of the People of Kurdistan

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzzi

Gracious Compatriots and righteous people of Iran!

Today, September 2nd, 2005 marks the twenty-sixth anniversary of the beginning of the massacre of the innocent people of Kurdistan at the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Twenty Six years ago on such a day, the revolutionary guards came to restrain the people of Kurdistan in their aspirations and designs for a democratic Iran and an autonomous province of Kurdistan [within that Democracy]; they attacked villages and towns in the western part of the country on Khomeini's orders. At dawn on September 2nd, 1979, the revolutionary guards began by attacking the small village of Qarni [which is a part of Naghdeh Township] and without even being confronted by the radical forces of Kurdistan, and without exception, brutally beheaded, every single person whom they saw in the path, with a machete. When the local Mullah, Koran in hand, stepped in and tried to prevent any further bloodshed, they killed him too. READ MORE

One of the commanders of the massacres of 26 years ago is the war criminal, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar who is now a member of Ahmadinejad's cabinet as Minister of Defense. Najjar is not only one of the main elements behind the plan of the Naghdeh areas' massacres but is also personally responsible for beheading innocent people. Twenty-six years ago, for the first time, Islamic slaughtering of the Iranian Kurds occurred in the village of Qarni and today it has somehow become a canonical duty for fundamentalist and terrorist groups. In a matter of a few hours, 49 innocent and defenseless women, children and elderly of the village of Qarni were brutally murdered.

The mass murder of the Kurdish residents of Qarni was no accident but a well-planned strategy for genocide and torment of a people who were seeking their rights as human beings, were willing to peacefully communicate them and like all our other fellow Iranians at the time, were not willing to be conspirators with the regime. It is due to this that the massacres continued and after Qarni, 18 people in the village of Qehlatan, 23 people in the village of Dilancharkh, 13 people in the village of Chehqehl-Mostafa, 8 people in the village of Khalifehlian, 35 people in the village of Inderqaash and Youssefkandeh-Mahabad, 18 people in the village of Qarehgol, 8 people in the village of Sabzi, 12 people in the village of Bayazidabad and many more harmless people living in villages in Kurdistan were beheaded.

In commemoration of 26 years of massacres of the brave people of Kurdistan, which still, to this day, continues with the latest instances escalating over the recent months where 18 of our heroic freedom-fighters in the western part of our country have been martyred at the hands of the bloodthirsty theocratic regime of the Mullahs, we would like to memorialize those who so fearlessly and senselessly lost their lives. As such we would like to request that our compatriots, the righteous people of Iran to adopt this infamous date in our nations' history as the preface to the brutal mass murder of the people of Kurdistan and to join us in protest.