{"id":1333,"date":"2020-04-04T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T06:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2020-04-04T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T06:06:13","slug":"jafar-pourang-a-victim-of-pjak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/interview\/jafar-pourang-a-victim-of-pjak\/","title":{"rendered":"Jafar Pourang a victim of PJAK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Interview with \u00a0Jafar Pourang<\/strong>‘s father<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, March 10, 2020, the PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency\nreported that “it renewed its agreement with the ideals of the victims of\nthe liberation of Kurdistan killed by Turkish attacks on 29 June 2019.”\nThe news agency wrote that Jafar Purang, with the organizational code of Agir Beritan,\nwas killed on June 29, 2019. Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW) is\nworking hard to determine the fate of this person and has obtained basic\ninformation from his father. While his father was not in a good mood, he told the\nIKHRW: “My son was born in Salmas in 1998 and lived in Urmia he joined the\ngroup on June 23, 2014. “My son had studied grade 2 primary school.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jafar Pourang, right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Pourang emphasized that Jafar, along with one or two of his\nfriends, had been deceived by one of the agents of the group based in Urmia and\njoined the group. Describing himself as a simple worker, he stressed that his\nson was 14 years old when he joined the group. He added that he went to the KRG\nseveral times under the pretext of work but could not find his son. Because the\nPKK did not provide him with accurate information and complete answers about\nhis son’s whereabouts. An unidentified person has called Mr. Purang and told\nthat Jafar had been sent to Syria. He said that the news of his son’s death will\nbe reported in the PKK media in a few days. It is unknown why PKK announces the\nnews of his death late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IKHRW emphasizes that the PKK and its Iranian branch, PJAK, are\nviolating human rights because of the recruitment of child soldiers and people\nunder the age of 15, and must be held accountable in international forums. In\nits recent report, the Security Council says that the  average age of PKK child soldiers is 10-13\nyears old, they are trained in Qandil and then sent to Shangal or Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recruitment or use of children as soldiers during internal and\ninternational armed conflict is one of the six serious and grave violations of\nchildren’s rights recognized and condemned by the United Nations Security\nCouncil. In the legal field, in 2000, an optional protocol attached to the\nConvention on the Rights of the Child on the Participation of Children in Armed\nConflict was adopted by the UN General Assembly and entered into force in 2002.\nAccording to the protocol, the ban on armed conflict has been increased from 15\nyears to 18 years, and governments are required to take the necessary measures\nto ensure that children are not involved in armed conflict. Regarding the\nsufficient age to enter the conflict, it should be noted that the Convention on\nthe Rights of the Child defines the age of participation in the war as 15\nyears. But the optional protocol has increased this age to 18 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IKHRW is seriously following the fate of the person\u2019s body, as\nwell as the exact cause of his death and why the PKK delayed in announcing the\nnews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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