http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises Current Events in Iran Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:15:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/qarna/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/qarna/#comments Sun, 03 Oct 2010 09:58:16 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=2039 On September 2, 1980, the village of Qarna witnessed a massacre committed by Revolutionary Guards. Behdad Bordbar, an Iranian Kurd living in exile in Scandinavia, asked some of his fellow-Kurdish refugees about their recollections of this now little-remembered act. The translation is taken from Radio Zamaneh, http://zamaaneh.com/humanrights/2010/09/post_703.html. A video of one of his interviewees speaking [...]

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