Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan Addresses the Democratic Party of Iran

Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan

January 22, 2007
To: The president of the Democratic Party of Iran
The Human Rights Organization of Iran has received many reports on the splitting of the Democratic Party of Iran. Both factions argued with each other a great deal after the split took place. We received a letter from a representative of the Democratic Party regarding the arguments occurring in the peshmerga camp of the Democratic Party. These disagreements resulted in attacks on each other and several Party members were injured and are still hospitalized. The Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, as an agency representing the rights of all people, calls upon both leaders of the now split Democratic Party to respect the opinions of each other and to resolve their arguments politically and with civilized debate, rather than with fists and knives. We hope that both Democratic Parties will cease arguing and instead resolve this in a friendly and democratic manner.

Translated by Samrand Moradi