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France: 3 Kurdish women ‘executed’ in Paris

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This combination photo provided by the Kurdish Cultural center in Paris shows the three victims "executed" in Paris. Fidan Dogan, left, Sakine Cansiz, center, and Leyla Soylemez. Cansiz was a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.

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Kurdish people react as three bodies of the killed Kurdish women are taken out of the building in Paris, Thursday Jan. 10, 2012. Police say three Kurdish women have been shot dead at a pro-Kurdish center in Paris in what the French interior minister is calling an execution.

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Three Kurdish women, including one of the founders of a militant group battling Turkish troops since 1984, were "executed" at a Kurdish center in Paris, the interior minister said Thursday. The news prompted angry crowds of Kurds to flood into the area.