The Iranian Islamic regime's policies of oppressing and disciplining the people through impoverishment in Eastern Kurdistan (Rojhilat) became the reason for a record high soaring of the suicide rate in this part of Kurdistan. According to a study, suicides and suicidal tendencies in Rojhilat are much higher than the world average. 

ROJHILAT PROVINCES RANK IN THE TOP 4

The Anti-Suicide Society in Iran conducted a nationwide survey which revealed that 4 provinces of Eastern Kurdistan rank at the top of the list of whole of Iran with regard to suicide rates. Kazim Melekoti, President of the Iranian Anti-Suicide Society, stated that the provinces Ilam, Loristan, Sine and Urmima of Rojhilat rank top four in terms of committed and attempted suicides in Iran.

ROJHILAT'S SUICIDE RATE TWICE AS HIGH AS WORLD AVERAGE

Melekoti said: "The suicide rate in western Iran (Rojhilat, Eastern Kurdistan) is much higher than in the eastern and central parts of Iran. The cases of committed and attempted suicides in the provinces of Kurdistan are enormously high. For example, in the Eyvan county of Ilam province every third death is a suicide."

PROFILES OF SUICIDES AND SUICIDE ATTEMPTS

Ilam ranks number one in the cases of suicides and suicide attempts by self-immolation. Surveys on suicide cases and trends show that cases of suicide and suicidal tendencies can be seen among people of all ages, statuses and genders. Yet women, the unemployed, young students, families and children are still far more endangered.

UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE MOST VULNERABLE

According to a research carried out by the Statistical Center of Persia (Markaz-e Āmār-e Īrān), an organisation which conducts political and social surveys in Iran, unemployed people are at the top of the suicide cases. Central Amari Iran stated that in some regions of Iran and Rojhilat the unemployment rate reaches 45 percent, which in turn causes despair to the citizens.

WOMEN RANK SECOND

According to the research of Statistical Center of Persia, women rank second in the suicide cases and in suicidal tendencies, followed by "low-educated" persons. The state-run institution Statistical Center of Persia did not offer any information on the reasons behind all those suicides and the crisis of the system, and interestingly it restricts the causes of the suicides to "unemployment" and "lack of education".

MAIN REASONS ARE IRAN'S POLICIES

Sociologists and psychologists confirm that unemployment and poverty are important factors in the cases of committed and attempted suicides in Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan), however the causes and problem of these suicides cannot be explained just with this.

Sociologists emphasize that the oppressive policies of the Iranian regime are the prime reasons for the suicides and suicidal tendencies, and say that unemployment, disciplining through impoverishment, lack of basic political rights, imposition of a closed society and sectarian-religious pressures, which the Iranian regime enforce on Eastern Kurdistan, are the main causes that lead to these suicides.

REGIME POLICY REGARDING WOMEN CAUSING SUICIDES

A sociologist, who asked to stay anonymous for safety reasons, stated that in Rojhilat and Iran the greatest oppression is executed on women and these women who cannot free themselves from those pressures are committing suicides as a last resort.

The sociologist noted that women are deprived of their fundamental rights and said that according to the mentality of the Iranian regime women are nothing more than "housekeepers" and "child-nurturer".

"REASON OF SUICIDES IS NOT POVERTY, BUT SYSTEMATIC PAUPERISING OF THE PEOPLE "

Sociologists recalled that Eastern Kurdistan is the richest region with regard to water sources, oil, mineral deposits, agriculture, livestock and manufacturing and noted that the assessment of the Statistical Center of Persia sticking on the unemployment rate was nothing else than a deliberate manipulation of the truth.

Sociologists stated that the people of Rojhilat could not benefit from these riches and added: "For this reason the cause for all these suicides is not the unemployment rate and poverty, but keeping the people deliberately unemployed and impoverishing them systematically."