Sunday, 02 September 2007,
Kurdish refugees sit near the village of Shewe Perde Hasso, an a improvised refugee camp, in Kurdistan region (Iraq), near the Iranian border, Thursday Aug. 30, 2007.
AP
As explosions boomed in the distance, a Kurdish woman stood outside her house and pointed to where shells scorched parts of her father's grapes and plum orchards.
"It was a bad day when some 20 shells hit our village in a single day last week. We were crying as we prayed to God to protect us from the bombs of the Islamic Republic of Iran," said Serwa Ibrahim, one of the few remaining villagers in Mardow, about 25 miles from the Iranian border.
"Despite the shelling, I will stay in my village until the end," Ibrahim, 33, said Thursday.
Iranian troops have been accused of bombing border areas for weeks against suspected positions of the Free Life Party, or PEJAK, a breakaway faction of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party. Iran says PEJAK -- which seeks autonomy for Kurds in mainly Kurdish northwest Iran, half the members of PEJAK are women. -- launches attacks inside Iran from bases in Iraqi Kurdistan region. full text
"Despite the shelling, I will stay in my village until the end," Ibrahim, 33, said Thursday.
Iranian troops have been accused of bombing border areas for weeks against suspected positions of the Free Life Party, or PEJAK, a breakaway faction of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party. Iran says PEJAK -- which seeks autonomy for Kurds in mainly Kurdish northwest Iran, half the members of PEJAK are women. -- launches attacks inside Iran from bases in Iraqi Kurdistan region. full text
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