{"id":594,"date":"2006-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2006\/04\/20\/mko-and-massacre-of-kurd-and-turkmen-iraqis\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:47:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:17:48","slug":"mko-and-massacre-of-kurd-and-turkmen-iraqis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/594","title":{"rendered":"MKO and Massacre of Kurd and Turkmen Iraqis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family:\">In our region, most of those who celebrated the liberation of Kefri city (from Baathists&#8217; occupation) on March 11, 1991, were our Turkmen neighbors. I can remember well that Peshmerg forces were welcomed by the citizens and everyone was happy. People shouted &quot;down with dictatorship&quot; and didn&#8217;t know how to express their happiness. Unfortunately, this happiness didn&#8217;t last long in Kefri because the mercenaries of the MKO, backed by the bombardment by Baathists, entered the city and suppressed the happiness of people.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family:\">The city resisted against the MKO mercenaries for a long time and many achieved martyrdom but finally these mercenaries and the forces of Saddam occupied the city and Kurd and Turkmen citizens started moving toward the borders of Iran; the army of Saddam started plundering the properties of people and set fire on the library&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family:\">Shilan Talibani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city resisted against the MKO mercenaries for a long time and many achieved martyrdom but finally these mercenaries and the forces of Saddam occupied the city and Kurd and Turkmen citizens started moving toward the borders of Iran; the army of Saddam started plundering the properties of people and set fire on the library\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[62,63,64],"module":[81],"ctype":[17],"blog":[248],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-s-terrorism","tag-mujahedin-khalq","tag-saddam-collaboration-mek","tag-mkos-terrorist-activities","module-article","ctype-story","blog-shilan-talibani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}