An das
Petitions Team
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Köln, den 11. Apr. 2005
Betr.: Erschiessung eines jungen
Turkmenen in Turkmensahra, am 16. 03. 2005
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
die Islamisch-Iranische Republik versucht seit über
20 Jahren Minderheiten wie die Turkmenen zu assimilieren. So werden turkmenische
Stadt- und Dorfnamen systematisch geändert. Turkmenische Eltern werden gezwungen,
die turkmenischen Namen ihrer Kinder durch persisch-arabische Namen zu ersetzen.
Des weiteren wird mit allen Mitteln versucht, sunnitische Turkmenen zum schiitischen
Glauben zu drängen.
Die turkmenenfeindliche Politik der Islamischen
Republik erreichte einen neuerlichen Höhepunkt am 16. März 2005, als ein 21 Jahre
alter Turkmene von einem Sicherheitsbeamten erschossen wurde. Das Opfer, Halimgholi
Watanpoor-Kem, hatte angeblich vor, im Kaspischen Meer Fische zu fangen. Nach
ungeschriebenen Gesetzen der Islamisehen Republik darf, wer auf frischer Tat beim
illegalen Fischfang erwischt wird, erschossen werden! Infolge dieser „Gesetzeslage“
werden alle paar Monate junge Turkmenen erschossen, weil von der massenhaften
Arbeitslosigkeit an erster Stelle Jugendliche betroffen sind.
Halimgoli Watanpoor-Kem gehörte auch zu diesen arbeitslosen
jungen Leuten. Er versorgte die fünfköpfige Familie (außer ihm zwei Geschwister
und die alten Eltern) durch gelegentliche Fischerei. Als er von dem Sicherheitsbeamten
erschossen wurde, war er noch nicht einmal beim Fischen, sondern beim Überqueren
des Kanals zum Meer. Seine Erschießung war kaltblütiger vorsätzlicher Mord.
Die Islamische Republik ist bekanntlich kein rechtstaatlicher
Staat. Solange international anerkannte Menschenrechtsorganisationen wie die Commission
for Human Rights der United Nations, Amnesty International und andere dieses Regime
nicht abmahnen und die Einhaltung der Menschenrechte, v.a. die Respektierung des
menschlichen Lebens einfordern, wird dieses Regime seine menschenverachtende
Politik, die sich gegen die Turkmenen und andere Minderheiten in Iran wendet,
fortsetzen.
Wir bitten Sie daher, die minderheitenfeindliche
Politik dieses Regimes und die Erschiessung von Halimgholi Watanpoor-Kem als Angehörigem
der turkmenischen Minderheit zu verurteilen.
Organisation zur Unterstützung
der nationalen Rechte des turkmenischen Volkes
Jouma Bouresh
Vorstandsvorsitzender
Anlage: Anzeige der Eltern von
Halimgholi Watanpoor-Kem gegen den Mörder ihres Sohnes
Amnesty International
Sektion der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V.
53108 Bonn
Subject: Shooting
(execution) of a young Turkmenian in Turkmensahra, 16.03.
2005
Dear Sirs,
it is more than 20 years that
the Islamic Republic of Iran tries to assimilate its minorities like the Turkmenian
people. Turkmenian names of cities and villages are systematically transformed.
Turkmenian parents are forced to change the Turkmenian names of their children
into Persian and Arab names. By many means it is tried to force Sunni Turkmenians
to transform their religion and become Shia.
This aggressive policy of the
Islamic Republic against Turkmenians reached a new peak on 16th of
March 2005, when a 21 year old Turkmenian was shot by an officer of the Security
Service. The victim, Halimgholi Watanpoor-Kem, was sayed to plan fishing in
the Caspian Sea. By unwritten laws of the Islamic Republic it is permitted to
shoot persons who are “catched in the very act” with illegal fishing! Because
of this system of laws young Turkmenians are shot all some months as a result
of the enormous unemployment with impact mainly on the youth.
Halimgholi Watanpoor-Kem also
belonged to these unemployed young people. By occasional fishing he was the
bread-winner for his family ofd five persons (besides of him two other children
and the old parents). When he was shot by the Security Service he was not even
fishing but passing by a channel leading to the Caspian Sea. The shooting of
this young person was coldblooded and intentional murder.
It is known that the Islamic Republic
does not fulfil the criteria of a constitutional state. As long as internationally
known and respected organisations for human rights such as the Commission
for the Human Rights at the United Nations, Amnesty International and others
do not admonish this regime and demand for keeping the human rights, especially
for respecting the right to exist, this regime will continue its politics dispising
of mankind and turned against Turkmenians and the other minorities in Iran.
We ask you to condemn the politics
of this regime which is hostile to its minorities and condemn officially the
shooting of Halimgholi Watanpoor-Kem as part of the Turkmenian minority.
Organisation
for the support of the national rights of the Turkmenian people
Jouma Bouresh, Chairperson
Enclosure:
Notification of the murderer of
Halimgholi Watanpoor-Kem by his parents
In the name of Allah
To the President of the Juridic
of Iran, Ayatollah Shahroodi
Notifier: Victim’s Father:
Hamidgholi Watanpoor-Kem
Victim’s Mother: Golna Marandi
Notified committer: Aliasghar
Bazrafshan
Aliasghar Bazrafshan, officer
of the Security Service, by misusing the laws has shot our 21 year old son,
Halimgholi Watanpoor-Kem, in the north of the city of Gomishan. Our son
was the only bread-winner to keep our family with five persons alive.
Where is it written in the law
that officers of the security service are authorized to shoot human beings,
who have not yet reached the coast for fishing, to say nothing of been catched
in the act?
Does Sharia say, that the live
of fishes is worth more than the live of a human being belonging to a minority?
Where is written, that a human
being because of supposed eventual fishing is to be treated and shot like a
gangster dangerous to the public?
The time has come to take measures
against the massive unemployment in our village of Kellepos in order to
stop that young people like our son are shot because of socalled illegal fishing.
Our son was the only one to support
our family.
We kindly ask you to research
this incident thoroughly.
With all respect
Hamidgholi Watanpoor-Kem
Golna Marandi
Kellepos, 20 March 2005