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| Iran regime demolishes entire Sunni village |
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evidence has emerged of a village bulldozed to the ground by Iran's
fundamentalist regime in the Sunni-majority, poverty-stricken province of
Sistan and Baluchistan, southeast Iran.
In
the early morning hours of Sunday, December 27, the regime's state security
forces arrived at the village of Shahidan-e Danesh-Payeh in 50 police vehicles
and 10 loaders, according to eye-witnesses, and began to demolish the
villagers’ homes.
Shahidan-e
Danesh-Payeh is about two kilometers from the impoverished province's largest
city and provincial capital Zahedan. The small village, officially listed in
the municipality records with the village code 711891, had a municipality sign,
and its electricity and water pipes were connected to the larger
municipalities' networks.
The
suppressive security forces claimed that the homes had been built illegally on
the land.
One
eye-witness said that of twenty homes in the village only two were left
standing, whose owners had said that they would not leave their homes even if
they were brought down on their heads. The regime’s agents threatened the two
families inside that they had only days to vacate the premises before the
demolition would go ahead anyway.
Ali
Safavi of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance
of Iran (NCRI) condemned the atrocities of the mullahs’ regime against Iran’s
Sunni minority. “This inhumane act is the latest in a series of repressive
measures undertaken by the authorities to further marginalize our Sunni
brethren in Iran. Ironically, it is happening under the so-called moderate
Hassan Rouhani’s watch and lays bare the sectarian and intolerant nature of the
clerical regime as it pertains to Iran’s diverse religious and ethnic
minorities,” he added.
