Iranian forces kill five Kurdish separatists, Revolutionary Guards say

[Kuwaiti Girl]

Iranian forces kill five Kurdish separatists, Revolutionary Guards say

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-security-kurds-idUSKCN0YZ0ML

Iran's Revolutionary Guards killed five members of a Kurdish separatist group involved in assaults last month in the northwest of the country, state media said on Monday.

The five were responsible for the killings of two members of the Revolutionary Guards in Sardasht last month and an engineer working there, the Guards said in the statement. It did not say when the five were killed.

"A five-member team of the terrorist group PJAK were identified in a region near Sardasht ... and were all killed by the Revolutionary Guards army," Tasnim news agency reported, citing the Guards' statement.

Party of Free Life of Kurdistan, or PJAK, is an outlawed group that seeks self-governance for Iran's Kurds and has links to Turkey's militant Kurdish Workers' Party.

A ceasefire between the government and PJAK was signed in 2011, when Iran said it would suspend executions of Kurdish political prisoners if PJAK stopped its attacks.

Both sides regularly violated the deal, but in recent months the number of clashes has climbed.

Iran's seven million Kurds make up around 10 percent of the population. Most live in Kurdistan, a region in the northwest on the border with Iraq. It is among the most politically active regions in Iran, where little dissent is tolerated.

(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom, editing by Larry King)

 

[xenon54 out]

Iranian forces kill five Kurdish separatists, Revolutionary Guards say

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-security-kurds-idUSKCN0YZ0ML

So tell me what you think about this.

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

So tell me what you think about this.

First and foremost, I'm against violence.

But if the army and militants want to fight each other, then by all means they're free to do so, provided they don't harm innocent civilians in the process.

For the sake of long-term peace and prosperity, however, it's in Iran's best interest to peacefully and diplomatically resolve its conflict with the Kurds. And the same goes for Turkey.

 

[mike2000 is back]

These kurds should just be offered a referendum like we did with scotland and northern Ireland.If they want to remain, then let them choose, if not let them have their own country I supose. This is the 21st century afterall

 

[SOHEIL]

These kurds should just be offered a referendum like we did with scotland and northern Ireland.If they want to remain, then let them choose, if not let them have their own country I supose. This is the 21st century afterall

& nobody cheated in your referendum !?

So tell me what you think about this.

What is your own idea !?

 

[raptor22]

These kurds should just be offered a referendum like we did with scotland and northern Ireland.If they want to remain, then let them choose, if not let them have their own country I supose. This is the 21st century afterall

As I heard many in the US want their states to secede from the U.S , Texas is one of them ...

One in four Americans want their state to secede from the U.S., but why?

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[mike2000 is back]

& nobody cheated in your referendum !?



What is your own idea !?

What are u talking about ? Britain is not a third world country were crucial elections like this can be rigged . Go get your facts right. Instead of addressing the point i made you indulge in unfounded assumptions. Shows you dont know what else to say.
As i said, if the kurds are so keen to have their own country up to the point of taking up arms for this, then let them have a referundum to decide their fate like we did with ireland and N.Ireland . This matter will be resolved peacefully forever after that.
Eventhough i know Iran being an autocratic islamic regime can't accept such a referundum.
This applies to all middle eastern countries with a restless kurdish population.

So they should all follow Britain's example.

 

[AmirPatriot]

I honestly don't see why the Scots want independence. I think the entire British Isles should be united. The culture is extremely similar. Ireland only split off because of sectarianism. Likewise, I am strongly against any form of referendum for Kurdistan. Kurdistan is Iranian. The nation must be united. Giving autonomy as well is just a step towards destabilization and separatism.

 

[SOHEIL]

Britain is not a third world country were crucial elections like this can be rigged .

 

[xenon54 out]

But if the army and militants want to fight each other, then by all means they're free to do so, provided they don't harm innocent civilians in the process.

What a sudden change...

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

What a sudden change...

How so?

When did I ever say that the Turkish army shouldn't be allowed to fight PKK militants?

Turkey's problem is that it mostly targets innocent civilians rather than actual militants.

 

[xenon54 out]

How so?

When did I ever say that the Turkish army shouldn't be allowed to fight PKK militants?

Turkey's problem is that it mostly targets innocent civilians rather than actual militants.

Thats bs and you know it, thats the problem with you, you are playing a double game here

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

Thats bs and you know it, thats the problem with you, you are playing a double game here

No, it's not "BS".

Go and find the post where I supposedly said (or implied) that it wasn't okay for the Turkish army to target enemy combatants.

I've made my views about the Turkey–PKK conflict very clear on so many occasions.

Turkish security forces and PKK militants are more than welcome to slaughter each other for all I care, if that's what they really want. I honestly couldn't care less about the well-being of either side, although I prefer peace and diplomacy to needless savagery. Ultimately, however, all that matters to me is that no innocent civilian (Kurdish or otherwise) gets deliberately targeted in the process.

Furthermore, the PKK militants have every right to target Turkish security personnel in a time of war. That's the nature of war. What else do you expect? You should always expect the other side to retaliate. That is their right.

The same goes for the Iran–PJAK conflict. The Kurdish militants have every right to target Iranian security personnel in a time of war, and you're never going to see me complain about that.

Civilians, on the other hand, should never be targeted by anyone. And if the Turkish or Iranian military deliberately kills Kurdish civilians, then the Kurds can't really be blamed for retaliating in the same way.

 

[mike2000 is back]

As I heard many in the US want their states to secede from the U.S , Texas is one of them ...

One in four Americans want their state to secede from the U.S., but why?

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Which armed group is fighting for independence in the U S now for decades? DONT COMPARE THE INCOMPARABLE.
Anyway i was talking about Britain's example, you deviated from that to suit tour agenda.
We should have given the kurds their ibddependence before we kegt the region/gave countries in the region their independence. It was a mistake we made attaching together countries/people with nothing in common, which still haunts the middle east. On this one at least i agree we are responsible for their current plight.

 

[SOHEIL]

Which armed group is fighting for independence in the U S now for decades? DONT COMPARE THE INCOMPARABLE.
Anyway i was talking about Britain's example, you deviated from that to suit tour agenda.
We should have given the kurds their ibddependence before we kegt the region/gave countries in the region their independence. It was a mistake we made attaching together countries/people with nothing in common, which still haunts the middle east. On this one at least i agree we are responsible for their current plight.

Nobody supporting separatists in the USA with money & weapons !

Please stop acting like an angel because we are fully aware of your nature... Go fool someone else