مجموعة ١١١/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. كرمانشاه - يوميّات سياسية." [و‎‎٣‎٠] (٧٥١/٦٠)

GONFIDi^TIAL.
KSRMM3HAH DIARY FOR THS MONTH OP JUNE 1942.
KURDISTuiiT.
The situation &n the northern part of this district
has not changed during the month. The beaten rebel Hama Rashid
remains in the mountains near Baneh with a following now of
only forty men or so, while negotiations drag out between himself
and the Government in Tehran. In theory he would probably like
virtual autonomy for himself and his chief iriends in western
Kurdistan, but the Government are not at present likely to grant
•weeping concessions, their forces being in a strong position as
compared with a few months ago. They are reported to be willing
to nominate Kurdish bakhshdars and to allow a large proportion of
Kurds in the gendarmerie, but the framework of local government
is meant to remain Persian. Hama Rashid may be cogitating over
whether he should return to his lands in Iraq as a nonentity, or
accept such grudging and unreliable favours as the Iranian
authorities may concede him inside Iran.
2. Further south there was local fighting between two
sub-tribes oi the Guran, the Babajanis and Kalkhanis, over
various grudges including the deflowering of three Babajani girls -
a crime which used not to be a Kurdish weakness. After the killing
of over a score tribesmen, peace was made with the handing over
of three Kalkhani maidens in marriage. A branch oz the Kalkhanis
is reported also to have been raiding villages and crops not far
north of Kerind.
3. In the Kalhor area, much excitement was caused by the
murder on June 14th at Hassanabad of the Kurdish bakhshdar of
Gilan, Ali Agha A’azami, by a minor chieftain named Akbari Hojabr.
The crime seems to have been one of personal vengeance, the
murderer having recently passed years of embittered enforced
exile in Tehran while the victim accumulated wealth by co-oper
ating with the hated government officials in the Kalhor area,
and was also suspected of spying on certain recent chieftains* in
trigues on behalf of authority. Hojabre escaped to the mountains
and probably hoped to start a local rebellion, but the prompt ac
tion of the Ustandar of Kermanshah in visiting the Shahabad area
and calming the excited tribesmen averted any real trouble.
He was accompanied by the British Political Adviser, and a few
British armoured cars put in a discreet appearance during the
visit, all of which facts undoubtedly assisted in preserving order
in an area lying on our lines of communication. The murderer is
still at large, and the authorities pin their faith to having
him surrendered eventually by the Kurds among whom he is hiding.
^ The Acting Chief of gendarmerie here stated definitely to “is
^ Majesty’s consul that his men would not go in ouriuit, as their
present policy was to stay on the main roads only. Meanwhile
^ the son of A’azami has been appointed in his father’s place, chiefly
as a gesture to show that authority will be upheld.
There was another incident on the main Bagdad-Kerman-
shah road on June 28th aoout 10 miles west of Bhahabad, when a
car containing Iranian representatives of the A*n a lo-Iranian
Company was helu up by a few armed Kurds, two persons killed
and the remainder robbed. Enquiries show that the"attempt was
really staged against a car expected to be passing that day with
a large sum of money for the wages of the labourers working on
the British road-making scheme in the district.
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