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Violation of human rights in Kurdistan is an unchanged policy of Islamic Republic in Iran
A report of human rights violation by Islamic Republic of Iran in Kurdistan on the 60th Anniversary of International Convention of Human Rights.
Anatomy of a political Assassination
Since the success of the Islamic Revolution, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to exporting its revolution abroad. One aspect of this campaign has been a commitment to silencing critical voices in the Iranian exile community around the world. Since December 1979 Iranian intelligence agents have assassinated monarchist, nationalist and democratic activists in countries as diverse as the United States, Austria, Dubai, France and Turkey.
Preparing the Public Opinion
The Turkish state, even before its war against the PKK in particularand the Kurdish people in general began, had been practicing torture. The Ottomans left this legacy to the emerging new state that came to beknown as the Turkey. But this new state has turned the practice oftorture into an art form with the outbreak of Kurdish national liberationstruggle in 1984. Ever since, hundreds of people have disappearedand as many have been murdered while in the custody of the state. Nothing has come of the investigations. It would be foolish to expectsomething.
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An Investigative Report Of The Events In Diyarbakir Prison When Ten Kurdish Inmates Were Beaten To Death By Turkish Soldiers And Police
By members of the Prisons Oversight Committee
There are conflicting reports circulating in the air as to what really happened on September 24, 1996 in the Diyarbakir prison. Officials have offered one version. The press accounts have varied. Some of the latter accounts have produced scenarios that accord with the government¹s version of events. They support the government. Some say that there was an uprising in the prison. Others note that the inmates wanted to visit the women¹s section of the jail. Still others note the belligerence of the inmates towards the recanters as the principal cause of the disturbance. There is still one other explanation which says that the authorities wanted to end the impasse by a decision to transfer the rebellious inmates to another prison and their disobedience to the orders brought about the altercation. All these reports cite the government officials as their sources. None make a reference to the views of the inmates. None note that the attorneys for the inmates were not allowed to visit their clients. None say that the families of the prisoners were barred from visits to the jail. None state that the journalists were not even allowed to enter the prison.
Translated and compiled by Miranda Watson (from the Turkish original)
December 6, 1996
[We thank Miranda Watson, a UK-based human rights activist for translating this report of members of the Turkish parliament into English. To those of you who speak Turkish, we urge you to contact our office, the American Kurdish Information Network, to get a copy of the report in its original Turkish text and 16 page format. It reads as a sad commentary on the state of our humanity. We ask that you distribute this English version or the Turkish one as widely as possible with the hopes that this practice of torturing and killing the captured will come to an end. As always, we thank you for your interest in the Kurds.]