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Let us not forget this tragedy
No more Kurdish Exodus
Documentation on Violations of Human Rights
For many decades, Kurds have been displaced and uprooted from their homelands. After 2000 a reduction in this practice was observed in some parts of Kurdistan after 2000, yet based on reports by Christian Peace-maker-Teams from Camp Zharawa, and other camps in southern Kurdistan, 132 families of Kurds have been displaced from their villagers and live in 45 tents. Approximately three families live in two tents, each measuring 4 meters by 4 meters, and 2.2 meters high.
The location is barren and dissolute. The villagers cannot have any animals in the camp, and they cannot grow any food because every inch of land is covered by the tent or toilet. There is no electricity in the Camp, however, UNHCR has promised them a well. These Internally Displaced Kurds of southern Kurdistan are victims of air raids from both Turkey and Iran.
Since 2007 when the United States began sharing military intelligence with Turkey, the attacks have become more aggressive, resulting in death, injury to civilians and extensive property damage to their homes. Turkey and Iran have been bombing and shelling border villages. Since then, about 500 families from 70 villages have been displaced
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Stop Summery Execution of Kurds
Summery execution of Kurds in Iran, has intensified during recent years. This violation of basic human rights has taken a new turn from summery execution of innocent Kurds to the worst human degradation and insult to human dignity.
The Shivan Qaderi incident
On July 9, 2005, a Kurdish opposition activist, Shivan Qaderi [40] (also known as Shwane Qadri or Sayed Kamal Asfaram) and two other Kurdish men were shot by Iranian security forces in Mahabad. According to witnesses, the security forces tied Qaderi's body to a Toyota jeep and dragged it through the streets. Iranian authorities confirmed that Qaderi, "who was on the run and wanted by the judiciary" was shut while allegedly evading arrest.
The case of Ehsan Fatahian [28] a Kurdish freedom fighter and an unarmed sympathizer of the Kurdish party Komaleh. He was arrested in July 2008, transferred to a jail far from his hometown of Sanandaj, prosecuted and sentenced to 10 years prison. Based on Fatahi's own letter he was tortured. The local judge did not like the sentence and changed the prison term during appeal to execution.
Fatahi was executed secretly without the presence of his attorney and his parents on November 11, 2009. In his appeal on VOA radio, Fatahi's father announced that he was never allowed to visit his son while in prison.
Shirin Ebadi, Noble Prize winner, had suggested an autopsy by an impartial doctor, to find out the cause of his sudden death, but Fatahi's body was not delivered to his parents.
These cases are but a small representation. Ibrahim Lotfollahi, a law student from Sanandaj was arrested by police in Sanandaj in January 2008. After only nine days the authorities showed his grave to his parents who were looking for him. Ebrahim had no political affiliation with any party.
KJPA in cooperation with Amnesty International and other human rights groups has documented more than 20 similar cases.
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Stop stoning women; No Honor Killing
Since the beginning of the Islamic Republic in Iran, many women have been subjected to death by stoning. This barbaric method of punishment has been more frequently applied to women in Eastern Kurdistan.
Although honor killing is forbidden in Kurdistan, we have received reports of female circumcision and honor killings under the guise of suicide.
In response, KJPA has joined women organizations in the UK and the US. We have organized seminars and other activities to publicize this immoral, and injustice practice.
Simultaneously we have communicated with authorities in Kurdistan Region of Iraq to take harsher measures against this injustice towards women.
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