Iran: Situation of Kurdish people in Iran; major clashes with the government over the last five years
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 January 1990 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | IRN3515 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Iran: Situation of Kurdish people in Iran; major clashes with the government over the last five years, 1 January 1990, IRN3515, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab6220.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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The leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party, Dr Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, was assassinated in Vienna on 13 July 1989. [Amnesty International, "Assassination of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, Leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party or Iran", (AI Index: NWS 11/31/89), 3 August 1989.] Amnesty International has received allegations that Iranian officials were involved in the assassination.
Attachments:
- Amnesty International, "Assassination of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, Leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party or Iran", (AI Index: NWS 11/31/89), 3 August 1989;
- Ferdinand Hennerbichler, "Iran's Kurdish Rebellion and its Leaders", Swiss Review of World Affairs, March 1980;
- Sabine Vogel, "Avec les Kurdes d'Iran", GEO, Juin 1986;
- Youssef Ibrahim, "German Diplomat Slain in Paris; Hint of Kurdish Role is Disputed", The New York Times, 5 January 1988;
- "Marxist likes his alliance with the clergy in Tehran", International Iran Times, 25 December 1987;
- Claude van England, "War heats up in `Kurdistan' as Iraqi Kurds aid Iran", Christian Science Monitor, 1-7 June 1987;
- "A Kurdish Litany", The Economist, 13 June 1987;
- "Iran Two Revolutions and Two Minorities", World Minorities in the Eighties, Sunbury: Quartermaine House, 1980;
- Le Dossier Kurde Présenté par la FIDH a la Commission des Droits de l'Homme des Nations-Unies;
- Robert Kaplan, "Sons of Devils", The Atlantic, November 1987;
- Ebrahim Ghazagh, "Nous, Oubliés de l'Histoire: Les Kurdes d'Iran", Documentation Refugiés, Numéro 35, 20/29 Avril 1988;
- Roger Caratini, La Force des Faibles, Paris: Larousse, 1987;
- Please refer to Henry Degenhardt, Revolutionary and Dissident Movements, London: Longman Group UK Ltd., 1988.