Qarna (Persian: قارنا, also Romanized as Qārnā; also known as Karna and Qārneh)[1] is a Kurdish village in Beygom Qaleh Rural District, in the Central District of Naqadeh County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.
[2] On 2 September 1979, Kurds of the village were reported to have been massacred by the recruits of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
[3] The Qarna massacre led to a shock among the Kurdish population.
In an attempt to calm the situation, Ayatollah Khomeini announced the perpetrators of the massacre shall be brought to justice.
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