Word: alevi
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...incident that provoked last week's violence was a funeral procession for two left-wing Alevi teachers who had been gunned down by unknown assailants. A throng of 3,000 right-wing demonstrators blocked the procession's route. In the fighting that followed, three Sunnis were killed. Then the Sunnis began looting, burning and killing. Local R.P.P. deputies frantically cabled Premier Ecevit that "under an R.P.P government even our own people cannot be sure of protection in our headquarters...
...ostentatious mansion near the Shah's own palace. Then there was General Ali Kia, 53, chief of army intelligence, who built a block of luxury apartments that Teheranis had taken to calling the Where-Did-You-Get-It-From Building. Purged also was Minister of the Interior General Alevi Moghadan, 57; last week eight Majlis Deputies broke all the windows of his home in their rage over the fact that after they had paid the customary fee to General Moghadan to win election, Parliament had been dissolved before they had a chance to recoup their investment...