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Say
(No.)
: 444/ 2007
Tarix
(Date): 20 February 2007
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Əlirza
Sərrafinin məqaləsi Ana-gününü izah edir
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Həsən
Ərk yetgililər tərəfindən öz-xoşuna
tutuqlanmış
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Zakir
Hidayət aclıq aksiyası aparacaqdır
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Xanım
Zöhrə Vəfai ana-dilində kitab satmağı üçün
hədələnmişdir
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Xanım
Harrison, Amnesty International, London
Üzü
BMT-nin İnsan Haqları Üzrə Ali Komissarlığı,
Cenevrə; lütfən bu raportu aşağıdakılara çatdırın:
·
Qeyri-qanuni
Tutuqlamalar üzrə Raporter
·
Milli
Azlıqlar üzrə Bağımsız Mütəxəssis
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Çağdaşa
İrqçilik və İrqi Ayi-səçkilik və Başqa
Qatlaşmazlıq üzrə Özəl Raporter
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UNESCO
və başqa qurumlar
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Sayın xanım
Harrison
Hüzurlarınıza bir yığcam raport təqdim
edirik ki, 21 Fevral 2007-də beynəlxalq Ana-dili Gününü anmaq
üçün Güney Azərbaycanın milli çalışanları
tərəfindən tədarük olunan təşəbbüslər
ilə sizi tanış edir.
Bu yığcam raport ortada gedən təşəbbüslər
üzrə bilgi axaralarını toplaşdırıb, sizin üçün
cərəyanda olan olaylara yekun vermaq üçün yazılmışdır.
Bu vasitə ilə sizin qurumunuzun və eləcə
də başqa qurumların Güney Azərbaycan milli və insan
haqlarını qorumaq üçün dəstəklərinizə
minnətdarıq. Ümid edirik ki, bu gün münasibəti ilə əlaqədar
sancaqdaki raportda adları çəkilən Güney Azərbaycanlılardan
İran yetgililəri tərəfindən tutuqlananlar uğrunda
kampaniya aparacaqsınız və İran yetgililərindən
tələb edəcəksiniz ki, Güney Azərbaycan millətinə
borcları olan öz mükəlləfiyyətlərinə boyun
əysinlər.
Hörmət ilə
Böyük Rəsuloğlu
Dünya
Azərbaycanlılarının Haqlarını Müdafiə
Komitəsinin Sədri
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Say
(No.)
: 444/ 2007
Tarix
(Date): 20 February 2007
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Elirza
Serrafis article is attached explaining the Mother Tongue Day
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Hesen
Erk arbitrarily arrested
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Zakir
Hidayet will undergo a hunger strike
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Mrs.
Zohre Vefai being harassed for publishing books in our mother tongue
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Mrs.
Harrison, Amnesty International,
London
CC
The Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Geneva
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please circulate this report to:
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The
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (also for Fair Trials)
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The
Independent Expert on Minority Issues
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Special
Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance
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UNESCO
and other organisations
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Dear Mrs. Harrison
Please find enclosed an overview of the various initiatives by the
Southern Azerbaijani activists to celebrate the international day of mother
tongue on 21 February 2007.
The overview report pools together various information items and aims to
project an insight into the ongoing events in the context of the national
movement of
Southern Azerbaijan
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We would like to express our gratitude to your organisations and other
similar organisations for their role in defending the national and human rights
of the nation of Southern Azerbaijan and look forward to your campaign for the
detained activists and calling the authorities to comply with their
international obligations towards the nation of
Southern
Azerbaijan
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Yours sincerely
Boyuk Resuloglu
The
Committee for the Defence of the Rights of World Azerbaijanis
REPORT:
THE
CELEBRATION OF THE MOTHER TONGUE DAY
IN
SOUTHERN AZERBAIJAN
AS
IRANIAN AUTHORITIES RESORT TO REPRESSIVE ACTS
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Hesen
Erk
A
journalist, writer and thinker, has also suffered the arrest in the
ongoing preparation for celebrating the Mother Tongue day
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Ibrahim
Jeferzade
Activist
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Hesen
Esedi
Activist
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Atila
Derjezini
Activist
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1. Introduction
The
nation of Southern Azerbaijan is once again pledging their resolve to secure the
reinstatement of the official status of the Azerbaijani Turkic language
throughout
Southern Azerbaijan
. Preparations
are underway for a nationwide show of solidarity with our mother tongue.
The
national movement of
Southern Azerbaijan
has now a well established pulse rate, which is a testimony for the health of
the movement thoroughly rooted in human rights. The commendable strength of
human rights is now a shield for the barehanded Southern Azerbaijani
nationalists defiantly resisting racist policies spearheaded by the Islamic
Republic of Iran since 1990. Whilst 2006 reached its culmination by the virtue
of the May 2006 Mass Protests with 2 million participants granting the necessary
mandate for the movement, the year 2007 seems to be the year of increased
momentum towards the consolidation of the movement, thanks to the one month long
hunger strike of Mr. Abbas Leysanli, a protagonist of the national movement.
This
outline report is issued to introduce the richness of initiatives by the nation
of
Southern Azerbaijan
and infamous acts of repression inflicted by the authorities of the Islamic
Republic of Iran, violating international conventions and their own laws. The
report presents the following:
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The history of celebrating of the
International Mother Tongue Day in
Southern
Azerbaijan
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This is based on an article by Mr. Elirza Serrafi, a veteran of the national
movement.
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A reflection of some of the
nationwide plans in the form of a plethora of statements by various vanguard
groups and associations
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An outline of the repressive acts of
the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran
2.
Embracing the Mother Tongue Day by the Nations of
Southern Azerbaijan
We
are providing you the translation of an article on this issue by Mr. Elirza
Serrafi in Table 1, which is concise and authoritative.
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 Table
1
English Translation of the Article by Elirza Serrafi
Source: http://www.baybak.com/Baybak/?p=4821
or http://www.azadtabriz.com/news/?p=2093
Mr. Serrafi is a successful engineer by profession and one of the
intellectual vanguards of the national movement of
Southern
Azerbaijan
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February
21st was declared the international day of mother tongues eight
years ago by the UNESCO. Many countries have been celebrating this day
since then. As far as we are concerned, our nation too strives to express
their love to our mother tongue but is faced with constraints imposed by
the officials. They have mobilised all their resources for a number of
years to ensure that such a momentous day could not be aired through the
media and would be totally hidden. This is disgrace to them.
Thanks
to teamwork of a great many compatriots, the city of
Tebriz
hosted the very first mother tongue conference on 21st of
February 2004. The participants were drawn from the every corner of
Southern Azerbaijan, including Urmu, Khoy, Maragha, Zenjan, Erdebil, as
well from
Tehran
and
Kerej. One of the accomplishments of the Conference was its rich communiqué.
It articulated the reinstatement of our rights to our language based on
the United Nations conventions; was unanimously approved by the
conference; and within as little as one week, the Communiqué was
undersigned by three thousand three hundred and thirty three (3333)
individuals. It was published in four languages and was delivered to all
responsible authorities within the country, as well as to the UNESCO and
the United Nations. In this way, the first Conference and its Communiqué
were transformed into the golden pages of our national movement.
In
spite of obstacles created against the second and third Conferences in
2005 and 2006, the day was celebrated throughout our cities stressing that
our people are defiant and shall preserve our national rights.
Nonetheless, our rulers carried on with their indulgence to ignore the
peaceful strives of our honourable nation.
If
the shackling against our nation was induced eighty years ago by aliens,
there is no abatement of the onslaught since theninstead of opening the
channels for dialogue, the authorities keep distorting the situation and
are getting pig-headed with their incompetent policies. We keep asking
questions out of our sincerity, but they respond behind closed doors.
It
is hardly surprising that, our nation did not fit the space of conference
halls or the reception of their houses to preserve our mother tongue and
therefore poured to the streets challenging rotten policies in an arena as
vast as
Southern
Azerbaijan
. In this way, another golden page was written in the
history of our national movement. I argue that this episode shall be
regarded as a classical normative movement in the history of our national
movement, and I dare to say that it will mark a paradigm shift too at the
international level.
It
may be that tomorrow will be too late. The masters reigning from the upper
echelons and engaged in demeaning our nation, should open their ears, and
should dare to listen to the just voice of the Turkic citizens. History
has proven that a civil nation insisting on her national rights through
self-restraint and peaceful means is also capable of securing them using
other means when the time is right to confront the enemy.
Our
nation is distinguished internationally for a stiff resistance in
safeguarding our mother tongue whatever casualties it may suffer. If we
consider the extent of our losses in the following terms: only sixty years
ago our struggle for our mother tongue some twenty five thousands (25,000)
[Translators Note: This is due to the invasion of
Southern Azerbaijan
by
Iranian Army] of our sons and daughters suffered death; thus we can talk
of one casualty per day.
The
substance of our claim for our mother tongue has therefore been gained at
the expense of one casualty per day, as a result of which I hold that even
if the Day of Mother Tongue is truly an International day, we embrace it
as our national day of celebration.
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3.
Preparations for Demonstrations
Although
the activists of the national movement of Southern Azerbaijan have keenly
applied for licences to peaceful demonstrations throughout
Southern
Azerbaijan
, there are indications that the authorities of the
Islamic Republic of Iran have ordered their subservient local agents not to
ratify these applications or act as obstructionist.
Various groups and cultural associations have issued statements calling
for street demonstrations. Many are planning to take to the streets with their
families to minimise the risk of arbitrary onslaughts by the authorities. Some
of the initiatives include:
·
Distributing CDs and leaflets, three
examples are given in Table 2
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Organising conferences and parties,
for instance due to collaboration between the Sehend Literary Society, the
Islamic Society and the Centre for Publicising (Southern) Azerbaijan
successfully presented a conference on 19 February 2007 in Tebriz University.
The details are yet to emerge. (Source: http://www.baybak.com/Baybak/?p=4831).
·
Mr Hidayet Zakir (Arazli) and his wife Mrs. Ulduz Arazli have
pledged to undergo hunger strike towards publicising the unacceptable status of
the mother tongue of the 30 million Southern Azerbaijanis. They have issued a
communiqué detailing the sufferings of the nation of
Southern Azerbaijan
inflicted by the Iranian
racist policies. They insist that the Azerbaijani Turkic language must be the
language of education throughout Azerbaijani educational institutions all the
way through and including higher educations in the universities. Mr. Hidayet
Zakir himself is a teacher by profession. Source: GunAzTV and http://www.35000000.com/habergoruntule.asp?bolum=243&katid=48
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There are calls almost from all the
Southern Azerbaijani cities for demonstrations, many of which were aired from
GunAzTV (Southern Azerbaijani TV broadcasting from the
USA
).
These are also published in the Southern Azerbaijani websites, e.g. http://oyrenci.mihanblog.com/Rss.ASPX.
The cities with well publicised demonstrations include: Urmu, Khoy, Qoshachay,
Sulduz, Zenjan, Erdebil, Khiyov, and Tebriz. These are examples and by no means
exhaustive. An example of the call for demonstrations is given in Table 3.
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Table
3
An example of the call for demonstrations:
Source: http://www.azerbaycansesi.com/news/bugun2R.htm
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به
مناسبت روز
جهاني زبان
مادري و در
اعتراض به
آپارتايد
فرهنگي
رژيم ايران
نسبت به
ملتهاي غير
فارس زبان و
در جهت
مبارزه
براي آزادي
در تمامي
آذربايجان،
تظاهرات
گسترده در
داخل شهرها
و ميادين
اصلي شهرها
برگزار
خواهد
گرديد.
2 اسفند
برابر با 21
فوريه روز
جهاني زبان
مادري
گرامي باد .
در
اکثر
شهرهاي
آذربايجان
بيانيههاي
حضور در
خيابانهاي
اصلي شهرها
پخش گرديده
است و
آذربايجان
آمادگي
کامل براي
برگزاري
روز جهاني
زبان مادري
را به صورت
گسترده
دارد.
زمان و
مکان
برپايي
تجمعات در
برخي از
شهرها به
شرح زير ميباشد:
تبريز:
چهارشنبه 2
اسفند85 ،
ساعت 4بعد از
ظهر، راستا
کوچه
اروميه:
چهارشنبه2
اسفند85،
ساعت
بعد از ظهر
4:30، ميدان
مرکز
اردبيل:
چهار شنبه 2
اسفند85،
ساعت 4:30
بعد از
ظهر، مابين
ميدان
شريعتي و
چهارراه
امام
زنجان:
چهارشنبه- 2/11/85-
ساعت16- سبزه
ميدان
خوي:
چهارشنبه 2
اسفند 85،
ساعت 5:30 بعد
از ظهر،
خيابان
امام (محله
خياباني)،
سر خيابان
سينا
خييوو:
چهارشنبه2
اسفند، 85
ساعت 4:30،
ميدان اصلي
شهر
قوشاچاي(مياندواب):
چهار شنبه 2
اسفند85،
ساعت 4:30
بعد از
ظهر،
چهارراه
اصلي شهر
لازم
به ذکر است
در شهرهاي
تهران،
شبستر،
اهر،
مراغه،
ماکو،
خلخال،
مرند... نيز
اعلاميههاي
حضور در
خيابان و
تظاهرات بر
عليه
آپارتايد
فرهنگي پخش
شده است و
شنيدهها
حکايت از
تدارک
گسترده
مردم براي
حضور در 2
اسفند دارد
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4.
A Glimpse of Repressive Acts by Iranian Authorities
Whilst
the nation of Southern Azerbaijan goes from strength to strength in demanding
their national and human rights, often symbolised in terms of the demand for the
reinstatement of the Azerbaijani Turkic throughout
Southern
Azerbaijan
as the official language, the Iranian authorities
keep resorting to their singular approach of repression.
Table 4 outlines the basic details of the individuals who were arrested.
Some have been released on bail, others are arbitrarily detained. More details
are yet to emerge:
