Majid Kavian ( fa, مجید کاویان; 1982 – 3 September 2011), also known as Semko Sarheldan was the deputy commander of the militant

Kurdistan Free Life Party The Kurdistan Free Life Party, or PJAK ( ku, Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê), is a Kurdish leftist anti- Islamic Republic of Iran armed militant group. It has waged an intermittent armed struggle since 2004 against the Iranian regime, seeki ...

(PJAK) until his death on 3 September 2011, at the age of 29.

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br>PJAK war rages on with commanders killed on both sides
September 13, 2011 As the number two in command he was the chief commander of all PJAK's armed activitiesPJAK commander
, September 12, 2011 as the PJAK's number one leader,

Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi, (born, 1941, Iran) commonly known as just Haji Ahmadi, is an Iranian Kurdish leader. He leads a group called the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), a group fighting against the Iranian government for the creation of an aut ...

lives in exile, in Germany. Majid Kavian was born in the town of

Baneh Baneh ( fa, بانه, Bāneh, ku, بانە, translit=Bane) is a city and capital of Baneh County, Kurdistan Province, in Iran's western border. Baneh is bordered by Saqqez to the east, Marivan to the south, Sardasht to the west, and is approxim ...

in the Kurdistan Province of Iran in 1982. He joined the

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(PKK) in its conflict with Turkey in 1999, during which he fought in the Tunceli and Black Sea regions. He joined the PJAK in 2003, Al Arabiyabr>Iran says Kurdish rebel deputy chief killed
September 8, 2011 where he rose to position of Deputy Commander due to his experience, fighting in Turkey. He was killed by IRGC forces during the 2011 Iran-Iraq cross-border raids, while leading an operation in Kutaman. The PJAK confirmed his death on their website, releasing the following statement: Al Sumariabr>Iran kills PJAK deputy military chief
September 09, 2011

September 3rd 2011, during the second stage of Iranian Revolutionary Guards attack against Kandil mountains Majid Kawian, known as Comrade Samkou, deputy commander general of the forces of eastern Kurdistan in the Kurdistan Free Life Party, was killed along with Comrade Ruzhat Butan after being hit by a mortar in heavy Iranian shelling in Kutaman region

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