South Azerbaijani leader Qulamrza Amani killed by Persian regime
On October 23, 2008 Qulamrza Amani, one of the activists and leaders of South Azerbaijan National movement has been killed together with two of his brothers in traffic accident.
On October 23, 2008 Qulamrza Amani, one of the activists and leaders of South Azerbaijan National movement has been killed together with two of his brothers in traffic accident. Witnesses say that two lorries which have squeezed Amani’s car belong to SEPAH (Islamic Revolution Guards Corpus). The murder has happened on the road Tebriz – Khoja (a city in 30 km to Northern-West of Tebriz). An engineer Amani was one of organizers and leaders of national movement events and had been several times jailed for his activity. He has been imprisoned in last 1999 year for 5 years of jail for his political and cultural activity and afterwards was also jailed for his organizing and activity in the protest actions held by Southern Azerbaijanis against Persian racist politics. There is information that approximately 10 days before his murder Amani had received letters and phone calls with threats.
It should be noted that Iranian regime pursues systematic policy of suppressing Azerbaijanis who demand their natural rights to practice mother tongue since this right is indicated even in the Constitution of the named country. Azerbaijanis constitute 35 million of 70 million population of Iran. During last months Iran regime has imprisoned more than 20 activists of Southern Azerbaijan including writers, analysts, journalists, students, university teachers and others.
Amani has been suffering tortures, psychological and material repressions. While being in the prison he has told Iranian regime’s official in response to his threatening him with death: “You do not allow us to live as we want, but you can not deprive us of dying in the way as we want, with our honor”. Iranian regime plotting against Southern Azerbaijanis inside and outside Iran annihilates activists with different ways. This savage regime has killed South Azerbaijan scientist Mohammadtagi Zehtabi in 1999 after his returning from Berlin showing his death as a result of heart failure, a way of execution employed by many special services worldwide. Now Qulamrza Amani has become another victim of this racist regime. More than 5 million Southern Azerbaijanis live in exile in different countries of the world.
The national policy adopted by present Iran regime does not differ from the policies conducted by its predecessor racist Pahlavi regime. This regime denies national identity of all the non-Persian nations living there though they are pretending to be standard-bearer of Islamic world.
