Qarna

Qarna (or Qarnê) is a village around Naghadeh city in, West Azarbaijan Province, northwest Iran. The inhabitants of the village who were Kurds were massacred by Islamic Republic of Iran in early 1980s. On September 2, 1979, 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 in Kurdish is posted “We spent several days searching for corpses for several days. They removed the corpses from the village and...