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During a telephone call, the IKHRW reporter could interview the\nfamily of Benjamin Farajzadeh. Abbas Farajzadeh, the father of this young\nIranian, said: “My son was born in 1993 and was a student at the\nUniversity of Isfahan. I am shocked to hear this through local sources as well\nas PJAK media. There has never been such a dangerous and divisive thought in\nour family. I can’t believe this and the painful death of my child. My life and\nthat of my mother are really broken. “Our family has never been in this dangerous\nline of thought.” “Since joining PJAK without saying goodbye, we have\nnot heard from him and have not received a single call,” he added. I don’t\nknow how he got to know this group. “He was studying in Isfahan and he was\nfar from us.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abbas Farajzadeh emphasized: “We intend to follow up the\nmatter through the International Police (Interpol) so that we can receive at\nleast my son’s body. But at the moment, due to the outbreak of Coronavirus disease,\nwe can’t go to the KRG and pursue the issue.” “Of course, I went to\nthe PKK \/ PJAK headquarters once before, and even the relevant unit admitted\nthat Benjamin was there,” he said. “But they refused to make the\nconnection, and they left me alone very easily.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IKHRW also quoted PKK sources as saying that PJAK and PKK members\nhad died of Corona in the mountains. But PJAK announced their deaths because of\n“difficult natural conditions in the operational areas due to the cold and\nblizzard.” One of these forces was Iranian. It is unknown at this time\nwhat caused the deaths. Avalanche or Corona? Turkish attacks or internal\nsettlement with Iranian forces? PJAK must respond as quickly and transparently\nas possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In any case, health care needs must be provided quickly to PJAK\nmembers. IKHRW suggests that the PKK \/ PJAK, in a voluntary move, immediately\nhand over its forces to the United Nations in order to prevent the widespread\ndeaths of young people and children in the PKK and PJAK camps. Because the\ngroup has no medical facilities in the mountains, new PKK \/ PJAK members could\nbe carriers of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Documented and convincing reports by the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW) on the burial and killing of a number of Iranian teenagers and youths in PJAK headquarters and non-standard caves due to avalanches and heavy snow caused numerous reactions and questions in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Kurdish regions of Iran. IKHRW …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[127,85,27,41],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-benjamin-farajzadeh","tag-child-soldiers","tag-pjak","tag-pkk"],"yoast_head":"\n