Capitol Hill Event: Iran's Ethno-Religious Minorities under Siege - Part II

In the past few months, the Government of Iran has carried out an increasing number of human rights violations, including large-scale and arbitrary arrests and disappearances, incommunicado detention, as well as torture and severe punishments, including amputations and flogging. Iran's minorities and opposition leaders have suffered many of these reprisals as a direct result of their increased activism and because they have been speaking out against the government's extensive record of human rights abuses and violations perpetrated over the past 32 years. Since the early days of the Revolution in Iran in 1979, for example, Iranian regime's Revolutionary Guards forces staged a campaign of repression and intimidation against the defenseless civilian population, notably against the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) resulting in the death of tens of thousands of people. Despite this aggressive policy of the regime that resulted in an imposed war on the Kurdish people in Iran, the PDKI's attempts to negotiate with the Government of Iran for a settlement on Kurdish autonomy only led to the assassination of the PDKI's leaders Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou in1989 and Sadegh Sharafkandi in September 1992 by the mercenaries of the Islamic regime in Iran.
http://pdki.org/english/2011/05/22/event-iran%e2%80%99s-ethno-religious-minor...

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