ABSTRACT
On September 17, 1992 at 11 p.m. two masked gunmen burst into the Mykonos Greek restaurant in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin, spraying the back room of the restaurant with bullets from an Uzi automatic machine gun and a Lama-Spezial revolver, and killing four men, all Iranian Kurds, including Sadegh Sharafkandi, the exiled Secretary-General of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), a political party officially dissolved in Iran.1 The front room of the restaurant was full of ordinary customers. Although the Mykonos restaurant bore a Greek name, it was in fact an entirely Iranian restaurant, and had become the customary haunt of Iranian opposition figures identified with leftist organizations.2 On this occasion the owner, Aziz Ghafouri, a former member of the Marxist-Leninist Organization Fadaian Khalq, had set aside a large table in the back room for a group of visitors, who, by the late hour of the attack, were relaxing round the table, debating and arguing about political issues concerning Iran.
