#پهلویگرافی
THE GREAT impoverishment of the Lurs is due in part to the pillaging of the tribes by the Persian Army. The tragedy traces back to the policy of Reza Shah, who set about to subjugate them. "Is he still alive"
"Very much so. He lives in Tehran. The loot he got from our villages filled dozens of lorries. Tens of thousands of sheep and goats were stolen. How the colonel divided it up among his soldiers I do not know. What higherups shared in the plunder I do not know. But the colonel is today a very rich man. He bought several.
hundred houses in Tehran with the plunder.
There was scorn in his voice, as he spit out the words:
"The Butcher, AMIR AHMADI."
After a minute he said, "I am a Persian. I love my country. I would gladly give my life for it. But I hate the Army. God in his time will wreak a vengeance." He dropped his eyes; However, at that moment General Amirahnadi, then GOC the Western Division including the Luristan front, ordered the murder of a number of Lur chiefs who had surrendered themselves to him as hostages and to whom he had given a promise of a free pardon on a sealed Qur'an. These treacherous murders immediately sparked off a new conflagration. The Latrs made a violent attack on the garrison of Khurramabad which resulted in its serious defeat with heavy casualties and its Deng besieged in the town.
William O Douglas
1403/05/18 07:37