Fighting erupts in Kurdistan
NZPA-Reuter Teheran The Iranian Government said yesterday it would send in troops to crush street fighting in the northwestern town of Naghadeh if it had not ended by 4 p.m. yesterday (12.30 a.m. today N.Z. time). The Interior Minister (Mr Ahmad Sadr Haj Seyed) set the deadline in a broadcast statement. .
Newspapers put the death toil in two days' of fighting in Naghadeh, apparently between Kurds and Azerbaijanis, at between 30 and 40, with about 150 injured. Local religious and political leaders have been striving unsuccessfully to ' end the fighting since it flared during a rally of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Naghadeh sports stadium.
An unidentified gunman opened fire and Kurds retaliated. , According to Teheran newspapers, bodies were lying on the streets Food was running short and communications with the town, just below Lake Orumiyeh (formerly Rezaiveh) in west Azerbaijan province, were cut, the reports said.
Azerbaijanis, Shiite Muslims of Turkish origin, are the dominant community in Naghadeh, but Kurds, who are mostlj' Sunni Muslims, form the majority in surrounding villages and areas to the south, according to local residents. The Kurdish Democratic Party is leading demands for greater Kurdish autonomy within a federal Iran.
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Press, 23 April 1979, Page 8
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