Qarna massacre

Culture of origin: Kurdish · Historical

Holiday sources: Iran · Kurdish

On 11 Shahrivar 1358 (2 September 1979), during the regime's war on Iran's Kurds, about a hundred Revolutionary Guards entered Qarna, a Kurdish village near Naqadeh, after 15 of their comrades were killed in an ambush nearby (the same day by the Naqadeh army commander's account, the day before by other accounts), and within three hours killed the villagers who had not fled, beheading the village cleric. The Boroumand Foundation lists 68 dead. No one was ever punished.