Word: kamyaran
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...Kurds, Marivan's 10,000 residents left for fear of government reprisals, and many set up camp in the nearby forest. When the army then dispatched a convoy including a dozen American-made M-47 tanks to reinforce the militiamen, men and women from the neighboring town of Kamyaran lay down on the main thoroughfare with their children to stop the vehicles. "If there's going to be bloodshed," one villager said, "it might as well be here as in Marivan...
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