The demonstrations that started after the murder of two kolbers in Rojhilat’s (Eastern Kurdistan) Banê city continue. NGO representatives in Mahabad issued a written statement and called for a general strike in the city tomorrow.

The written statement was signed by Eastern Kurdistan People’s Initiative and called on the people of the city to not open their shops and not go to work until 11.00 tomorrow.

The activists stated that they want to resolve the issues that arise due to the regime’s oppression through peaceful methods but they have chosen such a path when the regime chose the path of force.

The statement said Iranian President Hasan Rouhani should intervene with the events and listed the following demands:

- Deaths of kolbers and kesibkar should end

- Local administrators and Rouhani should protest the incidents

- They should apologize to the people of Rojhilat

- All detainees should be released without any conditions

- The de facto State of Emergency in Kurdistan provinces should be lifted at once

- The work cards confiscated from the kolbers should be returned and Rouhani should keep his promises he made during his presidential campaign to the people

- Kolbers’ safety should be ensured

The written statement ended with: “No dam can hold back the flood of the people.”