KURDISH GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE CREATES "LIBERATION ARMY"
A spokesman for the Kurdish National Congress (KNC), now based in refugee camps hastily set up inside Iran, declared the creation of the Kurdish National Liberation Front (KNLF). This irregular army is to absorb the militias of the various organized Kurdish independence movements that are part of the KNC, as well as bands of unaffiliated tribal fighters. Mustafa Barzani, leader of the KDP, the largest of the Kurdish groups, praised the move and said that, "the atrocities in Arbil will be avenged by our new liberation army of freedom fighters, battling for the independence of Kurdistan from all its enemies."
A spokesman for the Iranian army refused comment when questioned about the KNLF's ability to operate from Iranian soil, and rumours that the Shah's government has been arming Kurdish fighters.
"The Associated Press" October 13 1976
A spokesman for the Kurdish National Congress (KNC), now based in refugee camps hastily set up inside Iran, declared the creation of the Kurdish National Liberation Front (KNLF). This irregular army is to absorb the militias of the various organized Kurdish independence movements that are part of the KNC, as well as bands of unaffiliated tribal fighters. Mustafa Barzani, leader of the KDP, the largest of the Kurdish groups, praised the move and said that, "the atrocities in Arbil will be avenged by our new liberation army of freedom fighters, battling for the independence of Kurdistan from all its enemies."
A spokesman for the Iranian army refused comment when questioned about the KNLF's ability to operate from Iranian soil, and rumours that the Shah's government has been arming Kurdish fighters.
"The Associated Press" October 13 1976