by skyhook77sfg » Mon Jun 06, 2011 12:57 am
kurds dont weep for khomeni....
Kurds supported the revolution of the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, hoping to gain autonomy. Instead. the Ayatollah Khomeini declared a Jihad against the Kurds.
The new regime destroyed entire towns to force the Kurds into submission. Ayatollah Khalkhali sentenced thousands to death in kangaroo trials. About 10,000 Kurds were massacred by the Iranian Republican Guard Corps. The Sunni branch of Islam is suppressed in Iran. As many Kurds are Sunni, this is a source of conflict. In Tehran, there are over a million Sunni Muslims, many of them Kurds, but there is no Sunni mosque.
In 1997, under the Iranian reformist president Khatami, Kurds received some representation in the Iranian parliament, and hoped for greater autonomy. These hopes went largely unrealized. In February 1999, Kurdish nationalists demonstrated in in Mahabad, Sanandaj and Urmia, protesting against the government and in support of Abdullah Ocalan. According to Human rights groups, 20 or more people were killed in suppression of the protests.
On July 9, 2005, Shivan Qaderi and two other Kurdish activists were shot by police in Mahabad. Qaderi's body was then tied to the back of a jeep and dragged through the streets. This provoked riots throughout Iranian Kurdistan. The Iranian regime suppressed the riots, killing scores of people.