Kurdish rebels vow to continue fighting, reject call to surrender

          
          rrehrail, Iran (Reuter)—Kurdish huur-
          genii vowed yeeterd o continue fight-
          ing, rejecting a calUOi surrender from
          Ayatollah Ruboliah lChomelnL
          We have decided t O defend ourselves,
          and we wil t,” a senior member of the
          outlawed dish Democratic party
          (KDP) said In a telephone Interview from
          the rebel capital of M haha4 which the
          government has promised to recapture.
          Earlier yesterday, Ayatollah Khomeini
          set stiff cendlt lom for ending the 2-week-
          old Kiudlak conflict on Iran's noëtbweut.
          em border, hututing that the twergeeta
          put down their arme and saying the KDP
          leaders would bepun lsbedastra ltors.
          A fragile mseff lá lal truce between thou.
          made of Kurdith guerrillas and a beeleg .
          lag Arm7 ferrous broken last night
          after Ayatollah Khomeini rejected a
          K u rd peace blt.
          :Jaenh l d Rn pi, the'governoiot the
          border pcetlace.o( Waut Aserbuijas, maid
          a't.lspb' 'e Interview that .Xor
          ilas attacked an anny be.. seethed
          a N v
          1 D,whIth is leading thi Ká 'dI
          uprIs flg , saic guerriuas nit e Jaician
          base outside the town of Naghadeh with
          incendiary bombs, and isioke still could
          beseenr ls lngfromthebarrack a. S
          L column of army tanks has been
          parked outside Naghadek for the last five
          lays,, ready to strike at the mountain
          ,trcboldofMababat;
          The, guerrillas, who are dug In along
          the psa.. leading to Mahabad, say they
          ire equipped with tanks, antiaircraft bat-
          Lerles, antitank weapoce and artillery.
          eakthgfrom'the provincial capital of
          Jrumkb,W.Haqgu said the Kurde med
          irtilleq and mortars In last night's at-
          ack. There was some fighting In the area
          esterday but it was not serious, he added.
          .in anothe rebel strOnghold, Baneb,
          ear the Iraqi border south of Mahabad,
          • s*ld : half the Iowa's
          romesaadebildrà were sent to thófziEa-
          ler Ores as a iwecauUon:ln Cam goVeru.
          sent f o rc . attacked
          As hopes fOded torn iigoUatOd eWe .
          m Wreports ocltláin
          war
          1*as newepepses quoted Ayatollah
          sadegli lthalkhall, the religious judge sent
          to punish the Insurgents, as saying the
          rebels cut the genitals of captured Islamic
          revolutionary guards In the border town of
          Paveh two weeksago.
          At least 77 persons, most of them a!-
          leged rebels, have been executed In the
          Kurdish region since Ayatollah KbalhaII's
          arrival.
          Revolutionary guard headquarters In
          Tehrau Issued a statement saying counter-
          revolutionaries dresSed Inguard uniforms
          abused women and children In the Eurdish
          areas. A spokesman said some men who
          probably stole the uniforms of dead
          guardsmen raped women am! young girls
          in the Kurdish moq ta1n town of Saqqex,
          which fell to government forces iastweek-
          end.
          Pour more alleged Kárdlsh rebels were
          execUted Ii two western Iranian towM
          yesterday the official Pars flees agenq
          said, Pars said foor ,h*agmsWcut.dby
          theKurdi àrller this weekth theborder
          town of Sandubtweretescbeisof the
          KorsU and had not even borne arms, but
          Kurdish sources said the four had killed
          Kurde..
          Kurdish rebels vow to continue fighting, reject call to surrender
          The Sun (1837-1985); Aug 30, 1979; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Baltimore Sun, The (1837-1986)
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          Kurdish rebels vow to ëontinue
          fighting, reject call to surrender
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