Howler- Southern Kurdistan: Cebbar Yawer A spokesman for the Kurdish region’s security forces, known as peshmerga, said the Iranians had penetrated two km into Kurdistan’s Howler province on Thursday with several military vehicles and a tank, and were erecting positions.
“This is a clear violation of Iraqi borders and the Iraqi government has to intervene,” said Major-General Cebbar Yawer.
Howler governor Nawzad Hadi said: “We have informed the head of the Kurdistan’s regional government in order to take the necessary action.” Kurdish officials say more that 300 families have fled the shelling and one woman has been killed.
The Iranian Artilleries have been shelling the border region for the last month with the intention of eradicating Kurdish resistance movement spearheaded by the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK).
PJAK ended its unilateral ceasefire when the Iranian Republic of Execution declared war on the Kurdish nation by executing 5 Kurds in 9th May along with poisoning of 5 Kurdish freedom fighters in Dalaho.
The Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) was founded in 2004 as the result of the systematic and continuous oppression of the Kurdish nation by the Iranian government. PJAK upholds the libertarian ideology of Apoism which advocates an ecological-democratic society with gender equality. PJAK’s main goal is to democratise Iranian system and to create a democratic con-federation for the long- oppressed Kurds.
Its initial objective is to limit and change the authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran and to democratise it in four fundamental areas; the nation, society, citizenship and to evolve the state into a self-governing institution able to deliver public services and to maintain public security.
For the past 6 years PJAK has been the most influential organisation of the Kurdish population in the Eastern Kurdistan and has the strongest popular support in this part of the Kurdistan. Three particular dynamics forces namely women, students and the youths have been increasingly joining PJAK with the aims of transforming their society. Women constitute more than 48% PJAK’s membership from the bottom to the leadership of the organisation.