5/27/2011
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Publication: Guardian 1821-2000; Date: Sep 10, 1979; Section: None; Page: 7
Governor admits massacre Of Kurds
© Guardian News and Media Limited
From L iz Thurgood
in Tehean
A senior Inanian Gevernmest
official has med that 46
Kurdiah men, women, and
aMMawn died in a masaacrn
last week in the province of
West Acerbaijan.
The massacre tesk place On
Tuesday Las the small Kurdish
village s e Gains, near !gtafl.
deh, where many hundreds j
Iranians were believed to have
t ff 4hting heiween Kurda
and Turkish-speaking Imx
In an Interview elao
local press yesterday, the gas.
error-general of West Aserbai.
ian described Pie masascre as
horrible, and said that those
people who had lost relations
wsulal be financially rslmburaed.
Mr Jansahid Hsglagau anid that
an lnvestigstian had been
ordered, but that preliminary were tour women, and seven
inquiries chewed that the man- children aged between five and
caere had been committed by 12. Six men were also
Iraniaise who lived In she pro, beheaded,
‘-‘- -‘ The massacre reportedly
The governor.generai'a var- occurred when the villagers
elan of the massacre differed ensue out to welcome The lets-
sharply from the account gIven asic Guardsmen. They were led
by the Kurdish Democratic by MulIsh ?dahsnoud, who woe
Party, which—las blamed the carrying a copy at the Ksrsn.
massacre oss members of Aye' The Mulish, among those
tollsh Khomeini's Islamic beheaded, was lhe InS Imasn
Guardsman. Senior ICOP ,bsntoh, or leadec of Friday
members recently showed prayers; The killings were not
joumalitlt a bet naming the 46 apparently the work of ,4yatnl.
who hod died. lab Khalkhali, whsse summary
The Kurdo believed that the Justice In ICurdlatan has drawn
maassrs In retaliation for harsh wa..L f. the UN
she ambush of a Governent Human Rights Subcommlaslan
Army lorry last Monday at the in Geneva.
Doeh Pasu, In which 15 Islamic In a statement released last
Guards died. week, the commiaalen called an
Among the victims on the lbs iranian Government te
Gacna killing, tha lOP said, coaae a e4Lately “the ra-
ported summary executions titularly or food, have caused
(put at around SO) of a tm- sOniC unhappiness,
trots Kurds in Iran. “The struggle was waged for
MesfiWifife, A !tflTlah lOse- blast,” Kbnmeisti insisted, ,,
mclxii has underlined Irsn'e is inconceivable that any
growing economic prob,lei a would have sacrificed his son
an address to millions of for cheaper bread.”
Iranians whn had assembled
t houl the country to Meanwhile, yesterday the
mourn thuse who died a year Government seined the assets
esrlinr in svhet sves known as of Iran'a two largest pshlishine
“the massacre of Black Fri. hot , In a move list
day,” the ,kystollah asid thai observers believed would sUet-
irasians md stied their blood tivoty ensure a subsen'sent
Islamic Republic, not press.
for “e cheaper melon or An official statement astd
tiasiac.” that the assets at Ectelsat and
lilt remarks were believed Kayhan had been taken over
Is be directed at the ceunlays hecause their owners, whs hail
dwindling corpa of economists both left the country after the
who have criticised the Pcsssri- February uprising, had husit
aionsl Government's lack uf their publishing empires with
ecnnamis planning and loden, ill-gotten wealth, and used
trial v'isisn. Rising prices, par- their newspapers to support
the Shah. Nn valise has beet
put on the assets, which were
to he handed ever to the M-
toliah Sooyad-e-Mostazaffsrln
(Found 5n for the Poor).
The seizure of Ettels'at and
Kayhan left Bsindad as the
osly Tehran newspaper with
anything spproschtng an on-
dependent voice. Bamdad,
which has received several
Government cautions in rccant
weeks, was set up four years
ae° by staff who once worked
tar Rsststchis, the paper owned
by the Shah's ceo-party system.
Last month 27 papers were
clasod in a move that led to
viulent rioting between sup-
porters of Ayatollah Khomeini
and the secular Centre.Left,
Fifteen foreign correspondents
have slsa bees expelled since
Juno.
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