In this report, we read that the PJAK terrorist group, as the Iranian branch of the PKK, entered a new phase of its activities after the arrest of the PKK leader (Abdullah Öcalan) and made movements in the Kurdish regions of Iran to provide manpower and finances. The existence of some ethnic potential in this region of Iran, as well as serious deprivations in the border and Kurdish regions of Iran, caused some deceived people to be attracted to this group. In fact, the so-called eastern branch of the PKK was finally formed under the name of the Free Life Group of Iranian Kurdistan or PJAK in April 2004 (during the period of the occupation of Iraq by the United States).
The black record of the PJAK is a good indication of the purpose of this terrorist group and its regional and trans-regional supporters. Extortion of thousands of economic activists and production workshops; hundreds of terrorist acts; burning forests and pastures and environmental terrorism; murder, kidnapping and extortion of kolbars (Transporters) and finally deceiving and kidnapping thousands of young Iranian Kurds and teenagers, clearly demonstrate the terrorist nature of PJAK and PKK. The bitter point here is that most of the victims of this terrorist group are Kurds. In fact, PJAK was established to destroy Kurds. In recent years, this group has been publishing with the utmost impudence news of the deaths of its Iranian members, who it claims were killed as a result of Turkish attacks. The important question is: why should Iranians be killed in the war of the Turkish government with a terrorist group, and on the borders of a third country – Iraq and Qandil? What exactly has been achieved for the Kurds by the PKK’s four decades of war and the PJAK’s two decades of war and terror (and of course other armed, illegal and terrorist Kurdish groups such as Hadak, Hadka, Komala, Pak, etc.)? Except the occupation of the Kurdish areas of Syria and the region by the Turkish army? Except insecurity and instability and unemployment and underdevelopment in the Kurdish areas of Iran?
But the PJAK and the PKK have adopted a new criminal practice in the last year or two. They announce the names of their killed members – including young Iranian Kurds – with a delay of several months and years. Thus, it is not clear exactly why a PJAK and PKK member was killed. Turkish attacks? Internal settling of scores? Execution or shooting in the back while fleeing? Infection with the coronavirus or being thrown from a mountain? Why do the PJAK and the PKK not value the lives of their forces? Why do they not hand over the bodies of their members to their families? Why should the news of the deaths of Iranian members be published after more than two years? What enmity does the PJAK have with the Kurds of Iran that routine crimes do not convince the leaders of this group? Why does this terrorist group not respond to and pay attention to the questions of the media and human rights organizations about releasing the teenagers? These questions and others like them have been asked for years by human rights organizations and even the Kurds themselves; but the PJAK’s response has been to continue the terror, extortion, and forced disappearance of Iranian Kurdish youth and teenagers.
