Kurdish Offer of Peace Turned Down by Khomaini
LovAngeks limes (I923 -CurrentPiIe,); Aug 29, 1979:
ProQuest Historical New spapers. Los Angeles Times (1881 1987)
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Kurd sh Offer of Peace
TEHRAN Iran -The eader of
I ar, the Ayatol 1 ah Rubollth Kho
main , has turned down a peace bid
by Kurdi h rebels and refused to en-
dorse a negotiated cease fire a mem
ber of the ruling RevoIut o iary
Council said Tuesday
Khomairn has made no conces
sions ” Abdul Hussern Bani Sadr
said.
In an interview that he said refleeL
ed the views of Iran s re1ig us leader
and de facto head of state, Bani Sadr
said, “There is no ju bflcation what
soever for the systematic subversion
of minoritics which Want to impose
violence on our people As soon as
they (the Kurds) stop acting in this
manner, brotherly Islam ic coopera
non can Degrn
“It 18 not up t us to declare a
cea e flre ”
An unofhc ia ce se4 re i in force
on all fronts rn the Kurthsh region of
northwestern Iran as both sides await
the øutcome of peace moves in Teh
ran
The spokesman for a tive nian
Kurdish de egat on had said Monday
night that Tehran s rel giou leader,
the Ayatollah Mahnoud Ta cgharn,
had given assurances that a formal
cea e -flre wouid be announced Tues
day But the move apparently was
vetoed by Ithamaini.
Th Kurdish de egates met w th
senior gover iment offic a1s in Tehran
again Tuesday, repeating the offer of
an immediate cea e-ftre in the Kur
dish r uu if the guv nim nt btup d
executing Kurd th rebels
But the executions went on, Thc
head of Iran 1 arrnc courts, the Ay-
atollah Sadegh Khalkhah, who had
been disp tthed to Kurdistan prov
t r 2G men to tl e rg
squad rn Saqqe Tuesday 11 rebels
and nine amy deserters, the off ciaI
news agency reported 1even other
Kurd had been executed in Sai andaj
the previous day
More han 50 Kurdish rebe s have
been put to death nce the atest
struggle for Kurdi h autonomy began
two weeks ago. Ne r1y 1 OOO peop!e
have thed in f ghtrng in Kurdistan
since March,
Iran s 4 million Kurds repeatedly
have sought poliUcal autonomy from
the central government, seeking to
join other Kurdish speaking tubes in
neighboring Iraq and Turkey to farm
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