Israel says Gaza gets arms from Libya
That would be after some have poured in weaponry, sniper rifles and trained Gaddafi forces. They have only been busy around 50.000 dying..like the Kurds, Iraqis, Syrians, Iranians, Baloch, Tamils, Afghans, Bahrains, Yemenis, etc...etc..like Gaza toddlers, youngsters and teenagers..Of course, no one in the Israeli government wouldn´t know anything about that..would they..We mean..It´s to live in ones own little world disconnected from the rest ..isn´t it..
Gaza teen dies from injuries sustained in Israeli airstrikes
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5 cops injured in Baaquba blast
2 cops killed, one wounded in east Baghdad
1 soldier killed, 8 civilians wounded in car bomb in Mosul
2 cops killed, 2 wounded in Baaquba attack
6 wounded in 2 consecutive Baghdad blasts
Cop killed, four wounded in Ninewa
BAGHDAD (AFP) -- A suicide bomber killed 28 people and wounded 37 others in western Baghdad on Sunday evening, an interior ministry official said. "A suicide bomber entered Umm al-Qura mosque and blew himself up, killing 28 people and wounding 37," the official said.
5 civilians injured in two Baghdad explosions
2 civilians injured in Falluja explosion
Four persons, including 2 policemen, injured, women killed in Baghdad attack
Three civilians injured in Baghdad blast
South Kirkuk’s Tuz Khurmatu Intelligence Chief escapes assassination
Five Iraqi soldiers, policeman, civilian, injured in Mosul blasts
Six civilians, 2 soldiers, injured in Mosul blast
Iraqi Security Official assassinated in Diala Province
Three persons killed, 4th injured from single family in Babel
5 killed, 20 wounded in Basra explosion
Ministry of Women condemns Iranian-Turkish attacks on Kurdistan border areas
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi Ministry of State for Women Affairs has condemned the Iranian and Turkish air and artillery attacks against the border areas of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, according to a Ministry statement on Sunday.
“The Turkish warplanes and the Iranian artillery have continued their bombardment of the Iraqi borders in Kurdistan Region during the Holy Month of Ramadan, causing several victims, including women and children, and forcing the inhabitants of Qandil, Saidakan, Qasri and other areas to desert their home villages,” the statement, issued by the Minister of State for Women Affairs, Ibtihal Gassid al-Zaidy, stressed.
“We demand the International Community and the Islamic Conference Organization to interfere urgently, in order to stop the said violations and to avoid their repetition, calling on the Iraqi Federal government and the Kurdistan Regional government, as well as all local and International organizations to stretch their hands to help the deserted families, especially women, considered the main harmed individuals due to such armed conflicts,” the Minister said.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
CPTers hold public witness outside Iranian consulate in Hawler/Erbil against Iranian shelling
IRAQ: CPTers hold public witness outside Iranian consulate in Hawler/Erbil against Iranian shelling
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The International League of Peoples' Struggle demands Turkey to stop bombing Kurds
30 August 2011, In a statement the international organization condemn the bombing of villages The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS), has vigorously condemned the bombing attacks on Kurdish communities by "the reactionary Turkish air force and demand a stop to such blind and vicious attacks on the Kurdish people".
In a statement the ILPS says to be "standing firmly in solidarity with the Kurdish people and militantly support their struggle for national self-determination and democracy against the Turkish chauvinists and fascists and their imperialist masters."
"It is reprehensible that the US and the European Union and their Turkish puppets misrepresent the Kurdish national liberation movement as terrorist."
The ILPS calls on "all member-organizations of the ILPS, their allies and the broad masses of the people throughout the world to expose and oppose the barbaric attacks on the Kurdish people by the Turkish reactionaries and to undertake protest actions to demand the immediate end of such attacks".
At least seven villages in Iraqi Kurdistan have been deserted by the bombing of the Turkish Air Force which begun on Aug. 17, according to a Kurdish official.
The government of Iraqi Kurdistan has condemned the "violation" of its territory and called on Turkey to stop the aggression.
After the threats by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan against the Kurdish politicians and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the army launched a series of air strikes against the PKK-controlled areas in the north of Iraq, where hundreds of villages are located, away from the guerrillas.
457 TARGETS BOMBED
The army said 457 targets were bombed in three days, between 17 and 19 August, by aviation and artillery. The bombing resumed on the morning of August 20 on the Kandil and Zap areas.
Last night, warplanes have been bombing villages and Pishteshan Girnek in the region of Kandil, causing a fire that destroyed several houses and farms.
The spokesman of the Kurdish government, Mahmoud Kawe, condemned the Turkish aggression, calling it a "violation" of the territory of Kurdistan and Iraq, in an interview with Aknews. "We are in favour of a diplomatic solution to resolve the issue," he said, noting that military means are not a solution.
According to the journal Rudaw web site, the head of Sidakan, 100 km northeast of Erbil, said the Turkish air force has bombed several villages 5 km from the city center. "Aviation and the Turkish artillery shelled our borders, on Friday at 19.30" said Qadir Ahmed, adding that seven villages were deserted.
In the Kandil region near the Iranian border, the sub-prefect of Pishder, Hassan Abdullah, said the bombing caused extensive damage in the villages in the area of Sengeser.
WARPLANES BOMBING THE DEAD
Kurdish guerrilla forces have reported no losses in the bombing, said the PKK. However, two graveyards where guerrillas are buried in the Zap region were damaged by the bombing on August 17.
PKK areas extend for hundreds of miles between Turkey, Iran and Iraq, covering eight regions: Kandil, Metin, Zap, Xakurke, Xinere, Haftanin, railway station and Zagros. All these areas have been targeted by the Turkish Air Force. The guerrillas have no fixed camps, and most of PKK fighters are inside the Turkish border.
BOMBING BY THE IRANIAN ARMY
In coordination with Turkey, the Iranian army also shelled the Sidekan and Kandil regions on Friday and Saturday.
Both countries have massed tens of thousands of troops on the border with Iraq. Analysts said a ground incursion is considered.
MAXIME AZADI - ANF / NEWS DESK
ANF NEWS AGENCY http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=home
In a statement the ILPS says to be "standing firmly in solidarity with the Kurdish people and militantly support their struggle for national self-determination and democracy against the Turkish chauvinists and fascists and their imperialist masters."
"It is reprehensible that the US and the European Union and their Turkish puppets misrepresent the Kurdish national liberation movement as terrorist."
The ILPS calls on "all member-organizations of the ILPS, their allies and the broad masses of the people throughout the world to expose and oppose the barbaric attacks on the Kurdish people by the Turkish reactionaries and to undertake protest actions to demand the immediate end of such attacks".
At least seven villages in Iraqi Kurdistan have been deserted by the bombing of the Turkish Air Force which begun on Aug. 17, according to a Kurdish official.
The government of Iraqi Kurdistan has condemned the "violation" of its territory and called on Turkey to stop the aggression.
After the threats by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan against the Kurdish politicians and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the army launched a series of air strikes against the PKK-controlled areas in the north of Iraq, where hundreds of villages are located, away from the guerrillas.
457 TARGETS BOMBED
The army said 457 targets were bombed in three days, between 17 and 19 August, by aviation and artillery. The bombing resumed on the morning of August 20 on the Kandil and Zap areas.
Last night, warplanes have been bombing villages and Pishteshan Girnek in the region of Kandil, causing a fire that destroyed several houses and farms.
The spokesman of the Kurdish government, Mahmoud Kawe, condemned the Turkish aggression, calling it a "violation" of the territory of Kurdistan and Iraq, in an interview with Aknews. "We are in favour of a diplomatic solution to resolve the issue," he said, noting that military means are not a solution.
According to the journal Rudaw web site, the head of Sidakan, 100 km northeast of Erbil, said the Turkish air force has bombed several villages 5 km from the city center. "Aviation and the Turkish artillery shelled our borders, on Friday at 19.30" said Qadir Ahmed, adding that seven villages were deserted.
In the Kandil region near the Iranian border, the sub-prefect of Pishder, Hassan Abdullah, said the bombing caused extensive damage in the villages in the area of Sengeser.
WARPLANES BOMBING THE DEAD
Kurdish guerrilla forces have reported no losses in the bombing, said the PKK. However, two graveyards where guerrillas are buried in the Zap region were damaged by the bombing on August 17.
PKK areas extend for hundreds of miles between Turkey, Iran and Iraq, covering eight regions: Kandil, Metin, Zap, Xakurke, Xinere, Haftanin, railway station and Zagros. All these areas have been targeted by the Turkish Air Force. The guerrillas have no fixed camps, and most of PKK fighters are inside the Turkish border.
BOMBING BY THE IRANIAN ARMY
In coordination with Turkey, the Iranian army also shelled the Sidekan and Kandil regions on Friday and Saturday.
Both countries have massed tens of thousands of troops on the border with Iraq. Analysts said a ground incursion is considered.
MAXIME AZADI - ANF / NEWS DESK
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Turkey; Syria: Pure extermination
Genocide: To destroy in whole or in part..Shall we count them? Shall we?
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Chomsky: negotiation and dialogue only solution
29 August 2011, In an interview with Özgür Politika Chomsky says European institutions should help the process of dialogue in Turkey.
Linguist Noam Chomsky remarked that it would bring disaster to solve the Kurdish issue by military means, saying; “There s a need to put the legitimate demands of Kurds on the agenda and to conduct sincere negotiations”.
Noam Chomsky, considered as one of the world's greatest living thinkers, stated that the Kurdish issue in Turkey is fundamentally ‘a matter related with the human and citizen rights of the Kurdish people who have been exposed to brutal oppression for a very long time’.
Speaking to the Özgür Politika newspaper, Noam Chomsky called on the Turkish state to give up the search of solving the Kurdish question with military methods.
Pointing out that negotiations would be the only way to stop conflicts and prevent the issue get more violent, Chomsky remarked that international institutions and the European Union could make such a process easier. However, the relevant institutions should make a choice in terms of taking a role for the solution, added Chomsky.
Commenting that the silence of Western governments about the civilian deaths in Kortek region of Kandil is quite ‘normal’, Chomsky emphasized that the relevant powers often make a direct and serious contribution to such crimes.
Drawing attention to the role of the United States in the Kurdish issue, Chomsky said the followings; “While the Kurdish territory was experiencing a terrible savagery in the 1990s, the Western military aid moved this cruelty to a higher extent. The U.S. military assistance to Turkey in 1997 exceeded the supports given since the beginning of operations conducted for the suppression of the uprising."
ANF NEWS AGENCY
Linguist Noam Chomsky remarked that it would bring disaster to solve the Kurdish issue by military means, saying; “There s a need to put the legitimate demands of Kurds on the agenda and to conduct sincere negotiations”.
Noam Chomsky, considered as one of the world's greatest living thinkers, stated that the Kurdish issue in Turkey is fundamentally ‘a matter related with the human and citizen rights of the Kurdish people who have been exposed to brutal oppression for a very long time’.
Speaking to the Özgür Politika newspaper, Noam Chomsky called on the Turkish state to give up the search of solving the Kurdish question with military methods.
Pointing out that negotiations would be the only way to stop conflicts and prevent the issue get more violent, Chomsky remarked that international institutions and the European Union could make such a process easier. However, the relevant institutions should make a choice in terms of taking a role for the solution, added Chomsky.
Commenting that the silence of Western governments about the civilian deaths in Kortek region of Kandil is quite ‘normal’, Chomsky emphasized that the relevant powers often make a direct and serious contribution to such crimes.
Drawing attention to the role of the United States in the Kurdish issue, Chomsky said the followings; “While the Kurdish territory was experiencing a terrible savagery in the 1990s, the Western military aid moved this cruelty to a higher extent. The U.S. military assistance to Turkey in 1997 exceeded the supports given since the beginning of operations conducted for the suppression of the uprising."
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KCK urges Erdoğan to talk peace
29 August 2011, KCK called on the Prime Minister Erdoğan to give a positive answer to Abdullah Ocalan´s call for dialogue.
Confederation of Kurdish Communities (KCK) has called on the Prime Minister Erdoğan to give a positive answer to Abdullah Ocalan’s call to give an assurance and leave the field clear for the Leadership to enable a permanent and peaceful solution. “The Kurdish issue can only reach a peaceful-democratic solution in this way” said KCK.
Making a statement for brotherhood, peace and hope in the Ramadan feast which coincides with a significant phase of the freedom struggle of the Kurdish people, KCK said it is now the time for national unity, solidarity and march towards freedom.
“The hundred-year-old utopia of Kurdistan people’s liberation from slavery, oppression and persecution has entered the process of becoming a reality. All the people of Kurdistan should strengthen their solidarity and unity in the struggle to build the Democratic Autonomy. We therefore call on all our people and the political-social organizations and institutions of Kurdistan to turn this holy feast day into the day of peace.” said the statement.
The statement also mentioned the human shield acts led by the Peace Mothers Initiative and extended condolences to the Kurdish people and the family of BDP Van Councillor Yıldırım Ayhan who lost his life yesterday after being hit by a tear gas thrown by soldiers.
"Despite all our efforts to peaceful methods of resolving the Kurdish problem peacefully and the substantial human shield acts by peace mothers, patriotic democratic institutions and individuals, the AKP government has announced a new war concept on the basis of violence."
"The Turkish state, which attacked our people walking and seeking for peace, has martyrized the valuable Kurdish politician Yıldırım Ayhan whose memory we will keep alive with an absolute commitment in raising the struggle for freedom."
The statement further stated that "Besides not responding to the calls of peace mothers who have taken mountains and staged acts as human shields for peace, the government officials have prevented and attacked the demonstrators with police and soldiers."
The war concept declared by the AKP government is a problem of Turkey as not only the Kurdish but also all the peoples will suffer from this concept. Acts for peace and against war need to be staged by all the people of Turkey, not only by the Kurdish people and peace mothers who have been exposed to arrests, injuries and even a loss of life yesterday.
Targeting everyone regardless of deputies, co-chairs, politicians, women and elders, the AKP government applies a dirty attack and insults the Kurdish people. This act under the leadership of Peace Mothers has successfully given the necessary message and the acts by our people should better be continued in different ways and forms from now on.
Commenting on the the statement by the HPG Headquarters to halt all their actions during the Ramadan Feast, the KCK said that "together with the peace calls made by peace mothers, democratic institutions and intellectuals are an attitude of good intention. Those seeking for a solution to the Kurdish problem through violence will certainly be condemned to defeat against the effective and determined freedom guerrillas of Kurdistan."
The single peaceful and democratic solution of the Kurdish question, said the KCK "passes through a positive response by Prime Minister Erdogan to the call made by Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan."
However, the AKP government resorts to extortion and violence instead of responding to this call as well as developing a provocative attitude with the policy of separation and isolation. It is not possible for the Kurdish liberation movement and all patriotic people to remain silent and bow down against these discriminatory and insulting practices.
The statement then called on the AKP government "to give up its unlawful and immoral implementations on Leader Apo and to give a positive reply to the Leadership."
"We also call on all our patriotic people to react and resist against the provocative, racist, discriminatory and slaughterer policies of the AKP government.”
ANF / BEHDINAN, ANF NEWS AGENCY
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=home
Confederation of Kurdish Communities (KCK) has called on the Prime Minister Erdoğan to give a positive answer to Abdullah Ocalan’s call to give an assurance and leave the field clear for the Leadership to enable a permanent and peaceful solution. “The Kurdish issue can only reach a peaceful-democratic solution in this way” said KCK.
Making a statement for brotherhood, peace and hope in the Ramadan feast which coincides with a significant phase of the freedom struggle of the Kurdish people, KCK said it is now the time for national unity, solidarity and march towards freedom.
“The hundred-year-old utopia of Kurdistan people’s liberation from slavery, oppression and persecution has entered the process of becoming a reality. All the people of Kurdistan should strengthen their solidarity and unity in the struggle to build the Democratic Autonomy. We therefore call on all our people and the political-social organizations and institutions of Kurdistan to turn this holy feast day into the day of peace.” said the statement.
The statement also mentioned the human shield acts led by the Peace Mothers Initiative and extended condolences to the Kurdish people and the family of BDP Van Councillor Yıldırım Ayhan who lost his life yesterday after being hit by a tear gas thrown by soldiers.
"Despite all our efforts to peaceful methods of resolving the Kurdish problem peacefully and the substantial human shield acts by peace mothers, patriotic democratic institutions and individuals, the AKP government has announced a new war concept on the basis of violence."
"The Turkish state, which attacked our people walking and seeking for peace, has martyrized the valuable Kurdish politician Yıldırım Ayhan whose memory we will keep alive with an absolute commitment in raising the struggle for freedom."
The statement further stated that "Besides not responding to the calls of peace mothers who have taken mountains and staged acts as human shields for peace, the government officials have prevented and attacked the demonstrators with police and soldiers."
The war concept declared by the AKP government is a problem of Turkey as not only the Kurdish but also all the peoples will suffer from this concept. Acts for peace and against war need to be staged by all the people of Turkey, not only by the Kurdish people and peace mothers who have been exposed to arrests, injuries and even a loss of life yesterday.
Targeting everyone regardless of deputies, co-chairs, politicians, women and elders, the AKP government applies a dirty attack and insults the Kurdish people. This act under the leadership of Peace Mothers has successfully given the necessary message and the acts by our people should better be continued in different ways and forms from now on.
Commenting on the the statement by the HPG Headquarters to halt all their actions during the Ramadan Feast, the KCK said that "together with the peace calls made by peace mothers, democratic institutions and intellectuals are an attitude of good intention. Those seeking for a solution to the Kurdish problem through violence will certainly be condemned to defeat against the effective and determined freedom guerrillas of Kurdistan."
The single peaceful and democratic solution of the Kurdish question, said the KCK "passes through a positive response by Prime Minister Erdogan to the call made by Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan."
However, the AKP government resorts to extortion and violence instead of responding to this call as well as developing a provocative attitude with the policy of separation and isolation. It is not possible for the Kurdish liberation movement and all patriotic people to remain silent and bow down against these discriminatory and insulting practices.
The statement then called on the AKP government "to give up its unlawful and immoral implementations on Leader Apo and to give a positive reply to the Leadership."
"We also call on all our patriotic people to react and resist against the provocative, racist, discriminatory and slaughterer policies of the AKP government.”
ANF / BEHDINAN, ANF NEWS AGENCY
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Turkish President Abdullah Gül: "Turkey has lost confidence in the Syrian regime."
Syrian security forces deploy on borders with Jordan, says eyewitness
Hamah: Assad's gang forces the peope to dig out the dead from the graves 28-Aug
Idlib: The military and Shabeeha invade the area and opening random fire at homes and there are many children and women wounded 28-Aug-2011. The Army and Syrian Security Forces entered the city and started shooting randomly at people to injure civilians, women and children are amongst the injured.
Idlib: A military convoy in Taftanaz airport containing 15 tanks on Aleppo freeway to a non-specific direction and the citizens of Idlib are setting up a roadblock in preparation for the troop's storming of the area 29-Aug-2011.
Hamah: Assad's gang forces the peope to dig out the dead from the graves 28-Aug
Idlib: The military and Shabeeha invade the area and opening random fire at homes and there are many children and women wounded 28-Aug-2011. The Army and Syrian Security Forces entered the city and started shooting randomly at people to injure civilians, women and children are amongst the injured.
Idlib: A military convoy in Taftanaz airport containing 15 tanks on Aleppo freeway to a non-specific direction and the citizens of Idlib are setting up a roadblock in preparation for the troop's storming of the area 29-Aug-2011.
Actually..
We have 100 years of extermination of the indigenous peoples in this region and beyond to "catch up with"..
While Assad and the Turkish state have "wars against terrorism" a campaign exterminating Iraqi intellectuals and scientists has been going on 8 years
Gunmen kill Baghdad University professor
August 26, 2011, Unidentified gunmen have killed another university professor in Baghdad, the latest victim of a bloody campaign targeting the cream of Iraqi intelligentsia. Baghdad University’s Professor Hussein Kadhem was shot dead by a silencer gun as he left his home for work in Baghdad’s al-Adel neighborhood.
Scores of university professors have been killed in Baghdad since the 2003 U.S. invasion, most of them in al-Adel, a neighborhood inhabited mainly by university faculty members. There are no exact figures on the number of Iraqi intellectuals and scientists who have been killed since the U.S. invasion. But conservative estimates put the number at more than 300, among them highly qualified doctors, nuclear scientists and physicists.
The violence targeting Iraqi scientists has forced many of them to flee the country. Iraqis with higher degrees from top Western universities make a large portion of faculty at universities in Jordan and Arab Gulf states. Hospitals and research centers in the Gulf welcome Iraqi scientists.
By Laith Jawad Azzaman, http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m80908&hd=&size=1&l=e
August 26, 2011, Unidentified gunmen have killed another university professor in Baghdad, the latest victim of a bloody campaign targeting the cream of Iraqi intelligentsia. Baghdad University’s Professor Hussein Kadhem was shot dead by a silencer gun as he left his home for work in Baghdad’s al-Adel neighborhood.
Scores of university professors have been killed in Baghdad since the 2003 U.S. invasion, most of them in al-Adel, a neighborhood inhabited mainly by university faculty members. There are no exact figures on the number of Iraqi intellectuals and scientists who have been killed since the U.S. invasion. But conservative estimates put the number at more than 300, among them highly qualified doctors, nuclear scientists and physicists.
The violence targeting Iraqi scientists has forced many of them to flee the country. Iraqis with higher degrees from top Western universities make a large portion of faculty at universities in Jordan and Arab Gulf states. Hospitals and research centers in the Gulf welcome Iraqi scientists.
By Laith Jawad Azzaman, http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m80908&hd=&size=1&l=e
Turkish Police attack funeral as Syrian forces are using explosive bullets and enter Lebanon border town
29 August 2011, Thousands of people have joined the funeral of Van councillor Yıldırım Ayhan today. The ceremony turned into a nightmare when police violently attacked the mourning crowd with tear gas.
Councillor Ayhan was hit yesterday at the peace demonstration organized in the province of Hakkari by the human shields and peace mothers. The autopsy revealed that the BDP politician had been hit by a bullet. According to the autopsy carried out on the body of Van councillor Yildirim Ayhan, the cause of death was a bullet which hit him in the chest.
The funeral ceremony was attacked by police and many people are said to have been wounded. As a result of the scores of tear gas thrown a fire started in the Akköprü Graveyard.
Thousands pay Ayhan last respect while human shield pass border
29.08.2011, NEWSCENTRE (DİHA) – Despite police intervention, Kurds and peace activists continue protests across Turkey while thousands paid Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) executive Yıldırım Ayhan’s last respect, who was killed by police during an action yesterday and human shield activists passed the border to the Federative Kurdistan Region.
In the meantime, according to the autopsy carried out on the body of Van BDP councilor Yıldırım Ayhan, the cause of his death was a gun not a tear gas canister as it was thought.
Peace organizations, NGOs, trade unions, political parties, intellectuals and Kurdish politicians have participated in these marches against war and the government of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
In the meantime, seven people were sent in prison, who were arrested by police from the Hakkari Police Department and the Gendarmerie Command carried out a number of house raids in villages with ten others yesterday.
Police interventions and protests that began yesterday during funeral march for one of deceased HPG members in Yüksekova continued as well as Yıldırım’s funeral.
In Diyarbakır, many warplanes took off last night as it was last week, apparently headed for the Kurdistan Federal Region.
Syrian troops enter Lebanon border town
S.N.N Homs Al-Qusayr: Assad security forces have raided villages Haith, Saqraja and Abo Hoori which are located west of Al-Qusayr and is close to the lebanese border. These raid and arrest campaigns were carried out using large numbers of security and shabeeha forces while some of them placed barriers in Al-Qusayr. There is a gathering of forces and a barrier near the national hospital.
August 29, 2011, NICOSIA: Syrian troops backed by tanks and personnel carriers rumbled Monday into the village of Hit bordering Lebanon and heavy gunfire could be heard, a rights advocacy group reported.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the convoy entered Hit, two kilometres (1.2 miles) from the border with Lebanon, early Monday morning. "There has been high intensity gunfire since 9:00 am (0600 GMT)," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP by telephone.
Earlier this month U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told him in a telephone conversation that he had halted military operations against protesters.
But the U.N. chief a week ago said Assad had failed to keep his promise. "It is troubling that he has not kept his word," Ban told reporters, as he highlighted that Assad had vowed during a telephone conversation to halt operations by military and security forces. "This is what he clearly told me when I had telephone talks with him," Ban said. "Many world leaders have been speaking to him to halt immediately military operations, killing his own people. He should do that," Ban said.
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Councillor Ayhan was hit yesterday at the peace demonstration organized in the province of Hakkari by the human shields and peace mothers. The autopsy revealed that the BDP politician had been hit by a bullet. According to the autopsy carried out on the body of Van councillor Yildirim Ayhan, the cause of death was a bullet which hit him in the chest.
The funeral ceremony was attacked by police and many people are said to have been wounded. As a result of the scores of tear gas thrown a fire started in the Akköprü Graveyard.
Thousands pay Ayhan last respect while human shield pass border
29.08.2011, NEWSCENTRE (DİHA) – Despite police intervention, Kurds and peace activists continue protests across Turkey while thousands paid Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) executive Yıldırım Ayhan’s last respect, who was killed by police during an action yesterday and human shield activists passed the border to the Federative Kurdistan Region.
In the meantime, according to the autopsy carried out on the body of Van BDP councilor Yıldırım Ayhan, the cause of his death was a gun not a tear gas canister as it was thought.
Peace organizations, NGOs, trade unions, political parties, intellectuals and Kurdish politicians have participated in these marches against war and the government of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
In the meantime, seven people were sent in prison, who were arrested by police from the Hakkari Police Department and the Gendarmerie Command carried out a number of house raids in villages with ten others yesterday.
Police interventions and protests that began yesterday during funeral march for one of deceased HPG members in Yüksekova continued as well as Yıldırım’s funeral.
In Diyarbakır, many warplanes took off last night as it was last week, apparently headed for the Kurdistan Federal Region.
Syrian troops enter Lebanon border town
S.N.N Homs Al-Qusayr: Assad security forces have raided villages Haith, Saqraja and Abo Hoori which are located west of Al-Qusayr and is close to the lebanese border. These raid and arrest campaigns were carried out using large numbers of security and shabeeha forces while some of them placed barriers in Al-Qusayr. There is a gathering of forces and a barrier near the national hospital.
August 29, 2011, NICOSIA: Syrian troops backed by tanks and personnel carriers rumbled Monday into the village of Hit bordering Lebanon and heavy gunfire could be heard, a rights advocacy group reported.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the convoy entered Hit, two kilometres (1.2 miles) from the border with Lebanon, early Monday morning. "There has been high intensity gunfire since 9:00 am (0600 GMT)," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP by telephone.
Earlier this month U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told him in a telephone conversation that he had halted military operations against protesters.
But the U.N. chief a week ago said Assad had failed to keep his promise. "It is troubling that he has not kept his word," Ban told reporters, as he highlighted that Assad had vowed during a telephone conversation to halt operations by military and security forces. "This is what he clearly told me when I had telephone talks with him," Ban said. "Many world leaders have been speaking to him to halt immediately military operations, killing his own people. He should do that," Ban said.
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"Separate categories."
We do not think so! History is overlapping.
"We have, to the very highest degree, not only an overlapping history and geography but also a shared experience of the present."
i.e, it´s just take ones #¤¤¤% responsibility.
Life is no #¤%¤¤ football field!
"We have, to the very highest degree, not only an overlapping history and geography but also a shared experience of the present."
i.e, it´s just take ones #¤¤¤% responsibility.
Life is no #¤%¤¤ football field!
Sunday, August 28, 2011
The Western governments agency will not get any gas or oil deals with Kurdish rebels?
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Human shields attacked by security forces
Sunday, 28 August 2011, HAKKARI, -- A demonstration by the human shields has been violently attacked by Turkish security forces in Cukurca, province of Hakkari, near the border. The demonstrators have been attacked by tear gas and it is reported that at least two people have been badly injured. One of the wounded is thought to be a child.
Protest actions against the military operations carried out during the month of Ramadan continue. Peace organizations, NGOs, trade unions, political parties, intellectuals and Kurdish politicians have participated in these marches against war and the government of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Turkish soldiers killed Kurdish Councillor of Van
Kaddafi vs. Erdogan and Ahmadinijad
27 August 2011, If you turn on any western TV station, whether it is BBC, RTE, Euro News, CNN, Sky News, or Aljazeera, all you will see the news about the rebels in Bengasi closing in against the dictator Muammer Kaddafi, that the rebels are in Tripoli etc, every single move that is happening in Libya is being reported in all around the world at the moment. Then further you watch these stations you will also find the comments, commentators commenting about the Kaddafi. How he should be punished in The Hague Criminal Court because he has committed atrocities against his own population.
Now this article is not about Kaddafi or Libya, it is about the Western media’s hypocrisy of reporting the war to the people in the west. My difficulty with that is ok to report wars etc, but what I don’t understand is why turning blind eye to the current war that Turkey and Iran is waging against the Kurds in South Kurdistan (Northern Iraq).
More than 3 months ago Iranian Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), army, intelligence, invaded south Kurdistan in pursuit to wipe out Kurdish rebels, the PJAK, Free Life Party of Kurdistan. In this invasion Iranians were defeated badly the old Kurdish phrase (Suvar hat Paye cu), It means they left with their tails under neat in hurry. During these offspring invasion none of these TV station thought that was news worthy of covering it, reporting it.
I wonder if that is anything to do with the Western government agency will not get any gas or oil deals with Kurdish rebels? One wonders about that. It seems the Western companies; their government has already made deals with the so called rebels in Libya. Like vultures they have already began to do business with these people before even Kaddafi’s departure.
How ironic that last week Turkish warplanes bombarded south Kurdistan more than 24 hours non stop, a family of 12 innocent civilians were blown up by these war planes, amongst them 5 children 6 months old baby, pregnant mother, father, sisters, brothers, uncles. Entire family was blown in to small pieces like mince. The photos of these children were not even news worthy in the western, US media. If these families were killed by Kaddafi forces, every single TV in the World would have shown these images every hour on the hour to dehumanise the Kaddafi regime.
No commentators ever mention that in the western TV stations. Not even single person stood up and said Erdogan the Turkish premier should be brought to Hague, International criminal court. After all Erdogan’ folder is full of crimes against humanity. Worse than Kaddafi, Erdogan has more than 2 thousands Kurdish youths in prison today because they throw stones to police vehicles during demonstrations; more than 10 thousands Kurdish political activists are prison more than 3 years with out any charge because they are members of Kurdish political parties in Turkey.
He has given orders for police to shoot and kill anyone in the streets demonstrating for peaceful Kurdish settlement. Many innocent civilians Kurds, children, women were shot or gassed by the Turkish police forces under the leadership of Erdogan.
In spite of all these atrocities Turkish premier goes to Somalia and portray himself as some kind of humanitarian man that he wants to help the poor people of Somalia, he also tried to show to the world that he cared about Palestinian people when he was arguing with Israeli Prime minister. No he does not care about the people of Somalia, or Libya or Palestine; he still buys and sells arms to Israel as usual. No one should be fooled by this man’s image after all he has Islamic agenda that in middle East you can raise to power if you use the name Islam, then you can do whatever you want.
Like Iran it is called Islamic Republic of Iran, In the name of that religion they committed thousands of atrocities. It is Erdogan, Ahmadinijad that the West should go after not only Kaddafi, Please stop lying about the war in Libya. It is about the oil, gas, not the Human rights. We all know you don’t give damn about human Rights.
Latif Serhildan
http://www.rojhelat.info/english/
Actually, we wouldn´t be surprised if it´s some Turks in the "deep state" themselves so as to justify crimes against humanity and ongoing genocide(s)
28 August 2011, ANTALYA – An explosion has been reported in a sea resort in Kemer district of Antalya. While no deaths have been reported, seven tourists have been injured in the explosion.
According to reports received, a time bomb blasted at around 10.00 a.m. in a beach resort in the district center, injuring seven tourists and causing a panic in the area.
While police units have been sent to the scene and launched an investigation, wounded tourists have been taken under medical treatment by health care teams.
ANF NEWS AGENCY
Or Jews..We mean..While Palestinians are bombed under siege, mosques are bombed and destroyed over whole continents in total destruction's, exterminations and full fledged genocides..
From the "Islamic forum" to a #¤¤ Marathon of total exterminations and destruction of mosques over whole continents! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoXfHkQu3uQ&feature=player_detailpage
According to reports received, a time bomb blasted at around 10.00 a.m. in a beach resort in the district center, injuring seven tourists and causing a panic in the area.
While police units have been sent to the scene and launched an investigation, wounded tourists have been taken under medical treatment by health care teams.
ANF NEWS AGENCY
Or Jews..We mean..While Palestinians are bombed under siege, mosques are bombed and destroyed over whole continents in total destruction's, exterminations and full fledged genocides..
From the "Islamic forum" to a #¤¤ Marathon of total exterminations and destruction of mosques over whole continents! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoXfHkQu3uQ&feature=player_detailpage
Again: Representing NATO, UN security council and US "democratic example" while "promoting democracy" in Libya, Syria
23-Year Prison Threat for Kurdish Politician by the Turkish Government
Thousand of people in Suleymaniya protesting the Turkish attacks
28 August 2011, Protests against military operations carried out by both Iran and Turkey continue spreading in the cities of the Federal Kurdish Region of Iraq. More than thousand of people staged a protest act at Parka Azadi (Freedom Park) in Suleymaniya city of Southern Kurdistan against the aerial attacks of the Turkish army in the territory of Kurdistan.
Among them being politicians, intellectuals, writers, journalists and representatives of civil society organizations staged a protest act carrying the photos of seven people who were killed by Turkish warplanes last week in Kandil.
In accompany with slogans, demonstrators are making speeches condemning the attacks of the Turkish army and calling attention to the importance of the unity among Kurds.
Meanwhile, similar protest demonstrations are held in Koysancak, Bazıyan, Koye, Kelar and Xaneqin cities in the Federal Kurdish Region of Iraq.
Demonstration in London against Turkish raids
27 August 2011, Demo in London today against Turkish aggression. #TwitterKurds has launched a demonstration in London against the Turkish air raids into the Kurdish Federal Region. The appointment is for today outside the Turkish Embassy (Belgrave Square) at 3pm (an earlier meeting point to join the demo is at 2pm at Manor House tube station).
In their press release the demonstration organizers underlined that "the Turkish states repression of the Kurdish people has taken an ominous turn as Turkish warplanes continue to bomb PKK controlled areas in Kandil Mountains and surrounding areas killing scores of Kurdish civilians and emptying numerous Kurdish villages."
From the beginning of the year the Turkish authorities have been intensifying attacks against the Kurdish people in all spheres of Kurdish political life.
Detentions almost doubled from the previous year and the historical election victory of the Kurds was marred by grenade attacks on the night of election celebrations and compounded by the Turkish state's continued imprisonment of 6 Kurdish political prisoners elected from jail.
The 36 elected pro Kurdish MPs were effectively locked out of parliament by the state whose real intentions has become blindingly clear.
The statement further says that "Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has used a mixture of clever psychological warfare and criminalisation of the Kurds with a brutal crackdown on Kurdish political activists, surgically pinpointing and arresting the most active and effective leadership of the Kurdish Movement who now are incarcerated in Turkish jails".
Despite nightly bombardments and claims of over a hundred PKK casualties,PKK self defence forces of HPG report that the only casualties have been civilian casualties including families and children and point to the fact that most of their forces are operational inside Turkey.
KCK (Confederation of Kurdistan Communities) executive member, Murat Karayilan added that HPG up to date have only 5% of their forces engaged in operations and have warned Turkey that could change if Turkey continue with it's military intentions.
Thousands walking to Habur
28 August 2011, Tens of thousand human shields have started to walk towards Habur this morning to support the act of Peace Mothers Initiative. Taking the road from many cities to Habur Border Gate upon the call of DTK (Democratic Society Congress), tens of thousands of people have passed many search points and come together in Başverimli (Tılqebin) town where the demonstrating human shields were blocked by soldiers.
Despite all obstacles, tens of thousands have arrived in Habur to support the human shield act of Peace Mothers Initiative which has entered the ninth day. Pointing out to the aerial attacks in Federal Kurdistan Region, increasing military operations and the situation of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan who has been denied his weekly meeting with his lawyers for five weeks, tens of thousands came together in Başverimli (Tılqebin) town in Silopi district of Şırnak yesterday. Human shields have started to walk towards Habur Border Gate at around 07:00 this morning.
While the human shields were blocked by hundreds of soldiers in the town, a delegation including BDP deputies, mayors and administrators are having talks with authorities.
Arrests and raids in many cities
27 August 2011, Scores detained in many cities. In Istanbul’s Sultanbeyli district at 4 am yesterday morning, police detained the son of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) regional chairperson and five others. Also, in Istanbul’s Küçükçekmece in the Kanarya neighborhood, police detained 27 people.
Police from the Çatak District Police Department detained BDP Regional Chairperson, Ekrem Tuci, in the village of Elmacık (Doktan). Tuci is being held at the district police headquarters.
In Diyarbakır, it is reported that warplanes from the Second Tactical Air Force Command continue to take off, headed for the Federal Kurdistan Region in Iraq.
ANF NEWS AGENCY Arrests and raids in many cities
Thousand of people in Suleymaniya protesting the Turkish attacks
28 August 2011, Protests against military operations carried out by both Iran and Turkey continue spreading in the cities of the Federal Kurdish Region of Iraq. More than thousand of people staged a protest act at Parka Azadi (Freedom Park) in Suleymaniya city of Southern Kurdistan against the aerial attacks of the Turkish army in the territory of Kurdistan.
Among them being politicians, intellectuals, writers, journalists and representatives of civil society organizations staged a protest act carrying the photos of seven people who were killed by Turkish warplanes last week in Kandil.
In accompany with slogans, demonstrators are making speeches condemning the attacks of the Turkish army and calling attention to the importance of the unity among Kurds.
Meanwhile, similar protest demonstrations are held in Koysancak, Bazıyan, Koye, Kelar and Xaneqin cities in the Federal Kurdish Region of Iraq.
Demonstration in London against Turkish raids
27 August 2011, Demo in London today against Turkish aggression. #TwitterKurds has launched a demonstration in London against the Turkish air raids into the Kurdish Federal Region. The appointment is for today outside the Turkish Embassy (Belgrave Square) at 3pm (an earlier meeting point to join the demo is at 2pm at Manor House tube station).
In their press release the demonstration organizers underlined that "the Turkish states repression of the Kurdish people has taken an ominous turn as Turkish warplanes continue to bomb PKK controlled areas in Kandil Mountains and surrounding areas killing scores of Kurdish civilians and emptying numerous Kurdish villages."
From the beginning of the year the Turkish authorities have been intensifying attacks against the Kurdish people in all spheres of Kurdish political life.
Detentions almost doubled from the previous year and the historical election victory of the Kurds was marred by grenade attacks on the night of election celebrations and compounded by the Turkish state's continued imprisonment of 6 Kurdish political prisoners elected from jail.
The 36 elected pro Kurdish MPs were effectively locked out of parliament by the state whose real intentions has become blindingly clear.
The statement further says that "Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has used a mixture of clever psychological warfare and criminalisation of the Kurds with a brutal crackdown on Kurdish political activists, surgically pinpointing and arresting the most active and effective leadership of the Kurdish Movement who now are incarcerated in Turkish jails".
Despite nightly bombardments and claims of over a hundred PKK casualties,PKK self defence forces of HPG report that the only casualties have been civilian casualties including families and children and point to the fact that most of their forces are operational inside Turkey.
KCK (Confederation of Kurdistan Communities) executive member, Murat Karayilan added that HPG up to date have only 5% of their forces engaged in operations and have warned Turkey that could change if Turkey continue with it's military intentions.
Thousands walking to Habur
28 August 2011, Tens of thousand human shields have started to walk towards Habur this morning to support the act of Peace Mothers Initiative. Taking the road from many cities to Habur Border Gate upon the call of DTK (Democratic Society Congress), tens of thousands of people have passed many search points and come together in Başverimli (Tılqebin) town where the demonstrating human shields were blocked by soldiers.
Despite all obstacles, tens of thousands have arrived in Habur to support the human shield act of Peace Mothers Initiative which has entered the ninth day. Pointing out to the aerial attacks in Federal Kurdistan Region, increasing military operations and the situation of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan who has been denied his weekly meeting with his lawyers for five weeks, tens of thousands came together in Başverimli (Tılqebin) town in Silopi district of Şırnak yesterday. Human shields have started to walk towards Habur Border Gate at around 07:00 this morning.
While the human shields were blocked by hundreds of soldiers in the town, a delegation including BDP deputies, mayors and administrators are having talks with authorities.
Arrests and raids in many cities
27 August 2011, Scores detained in many cities. In Istanbul’s Sultanbeyli district at 4 am yesterday morning, police detained the son of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) regional chairperson and five others. Also, in Istanbul’s Küçükçekmece in the Kanarya neighborhood, police detained 27 people.
Police from the Çatak District Police Department detained BDP Regional Chairperson, Ekrem Tuci, in the village of Elmacık (Doktan). Tuci is being held at the district police headquarters.
In Diyarbakır, it is reported that warplanes from the Second Tactical Air Force Command continue to take off, headed for the Federal Kurdistan Region in Iraq.
ANF NEWS AGENCY Arrests and raids in many cities
Settlers attack terrorist olive trees in Salfit
Witnesses: Settlers attack olive trees in Salfit
14 Iraqis Killed, 69 Wounded As Confusion Over Rocket Attack Rattles Kuwait
Iraq Calls on Turkish Envoy, Demands End To Bombardment
Barzani letter to Bush urges ‘pressure on Turkey’
US Gives Turkey Go Ahead To Continue Deadly Air Strikes in Iraq
Eight Iraqis Killed As Focus Remains on Turkish Air Strikes in Kurdistan
17 Iraqis Killed, 49 Wounded As Violence in Diyala Province Reignites
A 'Calm Day' For Iraq: Leaves 11 Dead
Five Iraqis Killed, Four Wounded As al-Qaeda in Iraq Vows to Increase Attacks
Friday: 3 Iraqis Killed, 8 Wounded
NATO Kills 6 Civilians in Afghan Air Strike
Atrocities Abound in War-Torn Tripoli
R2P is now Right 2 Plunder http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MH27Ak03.html
14 Iraqis Killed, 69 Wounded As Confusion Over Rocket Attack Rattles Kuwait
Iraq Calls on Turkish Envoy, Demands End To Bombardment
Barzani letter to Bush urges ‘pressure on Turkey’
US Gives Turkey Go Ahead To Continue Deadly Air Strikes in Iraq
Eight Iraqis Killed As Focus Remains on Turkish Air Strikes in Kurdistan
17 Iraqis Killed, 49 Wounded As Violence in Diyala Province Reignites
A 'Calm Day' For Iraq: Leaves 11 Dead
Five Iraqis Killed, Four Wounded As al-Qaeda in Iraq Vows to Increase Attacks
Friday: 3 Iraqis Killed, 8 Wounded
NATO Kills 6 Civilians in Afghan Air Strike
Atrocities Abound in War-Torn Tripoli
R2P is now Right 2 Plunder http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MH27Ak03.html
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Protest in West of Kurdistan
26 August, 2011, WEST KURDISTAN, -- Thousands of people poured to the street of Qamishlu protesting against the Turkish ongoing bombing of Kurdish villages.
Turkish bombing of South Kurdistan has been going on since Wednesday 17th August. In one instance Turkish warplanes killed 7 members of a family including the pregnant mother and their four children.
Kurds in Qamishlu strongly denounced such an offensive and appealed to all the Kurdish organisations to take strong measures and project their national stance.
In the meantime another protest was carried out in front of the public cinema in the city of Amude, with the same aim.
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Turkish bombing of South Kurdistan has been going on since Wednesday 17th August. In one instance Turkish warplanes killed 7 members of a family including the pregnant mother and their four children.
Kurds in Qamishlu strongly denounced such an offensive and appealed to all the Kurdish organisations to take strong measures and project their national stance.
In the meantime another protest was carried out in front of the public cinema in the city of Amude, with the same aim.
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Bombed and killed under siege
Mohammed Al Majdalawi: No Place is Safe in Gaza
Killing, massacring "Palestinian terrorists" for 60 years..After 60 years one could actually claim the Israeli and Turkish "fight against terrorism" must be the worst failures in the world..
Killing, massacring "Palestinian terrorists" for 60 years..After 60 years one could actually claim the Israeli and Turkish "fight against terrorism" must be the worst failures in the world..
No Place is Safe in Gaza from Mohammed Al Majdalawi on Vimeo.
Occupied and exterminated during decades. Or since the British went ashore..in fact ..
The Mourning Mothers of Laleh Park has again condemned the massmurders of the 80's, particularly the mass execution of political prisoners in 1987. Now once again human rights have been clearly and widely violated in Iran, a special UN rapporteur has been appointed to look into the situation in Iran.
source: persian2english.com
source: persian2english.com
Some are not strange to organize and administrate
The most gross torture and crimes against humanity and peace, ethnically cleanings, slaughter, exterminations, total destruction, systematically, wide spread genocides and Holocausts in the dozens going on simultaneously for many decades...Actually, some have a huge and very long experience in it ..
We know very well which have aiding and supporting the Sri Lankan government in its ongoing ethnically cleaning and genocide and the most gross crimes
JAFFNA: BRUTAL ASSAULT OF CIVILIANS IN NAVANTHURAI
25 Aug, 2011 WATCHDOG Human Rights, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War
Around 100 young men from Navanthurai, a village in the Jaffna District, were detained in an operation conducted by the Sri Lanka Army around 1.15am on 23rd August 2011. The villagers were severely beaten by the army and dragged to the main road near the Navanthurai Army Detachment located around 300 meters from the village.
The men were loaded onto buses and handed over to the Jaffna police around 4 am and taken to the Jaffna courts by 10 am and produced before the Jaffna District Judge at around 1 pm the same day (23rd August).
Despite their injuries, the men were held without treatment for over 8 hours. 20 of the most seriously injured were admitted to the Jaffna General Hospital after 10 am, on orders by the District Judge. The rest were denied treatment until around 7.30 pm when we received information that all detainees had been admitted for treatment to the Jaffna Hospital. According to media reports, around 100 people have been admitted for treatment to the Jaffna Hospital on 23rd August[i].
"Grease Devils" in Navanthurai – Confrontation between Military and Villagers
At around 8 pm on 22nd August, villagers spotted five “grease men” in the Navanthurai area. Three men were seen inside the Navanthurai church and two others on trees. When the villagers surrounded and tried to capture the men, they ran into the Navanthurai Army Detachment.
The villagers gathered at the entrance to the Army camp and demanded that the Army produce the grease devils who had run into the camp. The Army refused. A short while later, the villagers saw the grease men being driven out of the camp in an army jeep. They had changed into military uniform[ii] and one man even brandished a knife at the villagers from inside the jeep. Agitated by the protection given by the military to the grease devils the villagers threw stones at the jeep. The head shots being fired by the Army and the crowd was dispersed by around 9.30 pm.
Army operation in Navanthurai
At around 1.15 am on 23rd August, the army entered Navanthurai and detained between 100 – 120 young men from the village[iii].
According to eye witnesses including two Catholic nuns, between 6-12 Army officers entered each house in the village and dragged out men who were sleeping with their families and children. The men were brutally and indiscriminately beaten with rifle butts and iron rods and dragged along the road towards the Army detachment located around 300 meters from the village. Women and children were also beaten in the attack.
When we visited the village that evening, we saw bullet holes in the walls of houses where shots had been fired. Doors and windows had been broken in several houses and villagers said that the army had destroyed furniture and goods inside each house. Many said that valuables including jewelry, phones and money had been taken by the military during the operation[iv].
We saw the bloodied shirt and banyan of a boy who is said to have been beaten inside his home and taken away. We saw blood stains on the road near houses where people were attacked. We also saw a jeep belonging to a villager, the jeep had at least three bullet holes and it appeared that shots had been fired from inside the vehicle. The owner of the jeep who is disabled was also badly beaten.
One villager who is a local businessman said that the army came to his house four times that night and each time they severely beat the men who were inside the house. His 16 year old son was beaten and dragged on to the street by the Army.
The men and young boys of school age were beaten inside their houses and again on the street while being dragged up to the Army Camp. A group of people who had gathered in the village for a funeral vigil, were also beaten, detained or witnessed the attacks.
According to one woman, a man who was carrying a young child was pulled out of his house by the Army. The child he was carrying was flung to aside and the man beaten and dragged away.
The villagers were unable to tell the exact number of officers who entered the village but state that it was well over a 100 officers. There are still conflicting estimates of the exact number of persons detained in the operation. The men were believed to have been held near the Army Camp till around 4 am when they were taken away in buses and handed over to the Jaffna police.
Magistrates Court Jaffna on 23rd August
Around 100 men were produced by the police in the District Court Jaffna. The men were brought to court in their injured state at around 10 am. They were not given access to their relatives until the District Judge intervened and ordered the police to allow one family member to visit the detainees. Several catholic priests, nuns and local civil society activists were also present at the Court. According to those present, the men had visible injuries and showed signs of being severely beaten.
The District Judge ordered 18 of those seriously injured to be admitted to hospital and for the medical certificates to be produced in Court. The men were produced before the District Judge Premashankar in batches after lunch at around 1 pm. We were informed that the rest of the detainees were admitted to hospital only at around 7.30 pm based on the order of the District Judge.
Lawyers for the villagers submitted that the villagers had chased the grease men from their village who had entered the Army camp. The people grew agitated by the Army refusing to produce the men and this was the reason for the confrontation between the military and the villagers. In response, the military had entered the village early morning on 23rd August and mercilessly beaten the villagers[v].
The ASP Jaffna Police, in his submission to Court, accused the villagers of unlawful gathering, disturbing the peace, destruction of public property, attacking the police, injuring a policeman and damaging police vehicles
In the evening on 23rd August, the Jaffna District Court Judge ordered all 95 persons who were arrested by police in Navanthurai, to be remanded till August 26. The Judge also ordered all detainees to be admitted to hospital for treatment and for the medical certificates to be produced in Court. 24 lawyers will appear for the detainees on August 26.
Jaffna General Hospital
At around 5 pm, we visited the Jaffna hospital with two Catholic priests and a Buddhist monk from the inter-religious council in Jaffna. In total 20 persons had been admitted to hospital by Court Order.
We met around 7 of the men injured in the attack and their families. Many were still being brought back to the ward from surgery. All the men we spoke to had suffered fractured bones in their arms and legs, some had head injuries and all showed signs of torture or severe beating.
Each person we spoke to had been sleeping inside their homes or in a vehicle when they were pulled out and beaten by the Army. We also met a young woman who was visiting relatives in Jaffna with her husband, who had also been injured in the attack.
We were told that several more were still held at the Jaffna court without treatment. At around 7 pm we received information that a further 35 persons had been admitted to hospital for treatment. The rest are believed to have been brought to hospital for treatment at around 7.30 pm.
Increased Military Presence in Navanthurai Village
According to Jaffna area commander, Major General Hathurusinghe, the military has ‘increased troops and were conducting foot and mobile patrols in the area to assist the police’. When we visited the village at around 5.30 pm, there was an increased military presence around the village. We also saw several women and children with bags leaving their homes. We were told that almost all the men in the village had been taken away by the military or were in hiding and the women were worried about staying at home alone in the night with Army officers still patrolling the village.
The people expressed fear and insecurity due to the heavy military presence and specifically asked for police protection to be given to the village and for Tamil speaking policemen sent to the village. The Buddhist monk spoke to the ASP Jaffna and special police officers were stationed in the village on 23rd night to look after the security of the people.
Statements by Government officials, MPs, Military and the Police
Speaking to a gathering of Muslim Representatives from Ampara, Batticaloa and Puttalam on August 23rd, Defence Secretary, Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapakse said that, ‘the Government will not tolerate those who disturb the peace and law of the country… Severe action will be taken against those who try to take the law into their hands’. Mr. Rajapakse also said that ‘the Government is trying to build a weaponless society and any person who tries to disturb that will be severely dealt with’. ‘Severe action will be taken against people who have attacked the military and army camps and that the Government will not hesitate to treat those who enter the military camp as terrorists’ (translated from Tamil).[vi]
Mr. Rajapakse denied the existence of the grease man and said that these were all constructed in an attempt to discredit the Government. Responding to allegations that the Government was instigating these incidents in order to extend Emergency Regulations he said that this was not their intention and the president has all power to extend or cancel emergency. Extending or withdrawing Emergency will not be influenced by external pressure from India, the US or the UK and not by the Grease man’.
Major General Hathurisinghe, Area Commander for Jaffna said that, this incident was an attempt by politicians and people to disturb the harmony between the military and the people. He said that the military could not tolerate or sit by while people took the law into their hands. There is no such thing as a grease man and these are fabricated stories and no complaints have been made in the police stations. When the police tried to control the situation, people threw bottles and attacked the officers with chains, batons, tube lights and iron bars. People also damaged a police vehicle. As a result the police asked the military to help. Despite this the people attacked the military and we have arrested 100 persons. This is a well planned incident and the people came ready to attack the military and the police[vii].
Major General Hathurusinghe also said that the people will not succeed in removing the military through protests and attacks. This is a matter to be decided by the Defence Ministry and the people have no say in this.
Minister Douglas Devananda said that those caught disturbing the peace will be punished regardless of who they are. He went on to say that village level vigilance committees will be set up to maintain the peace.
TNA MP Mr. Sreedaran stated in parliament on 23rd August that the people had clear proof that the grease men were really the military officers who were attacking the villagers. He said that in Jaffna Navanthurai, Vadamarachchi, Polikanty, and Vathurai and in Killnochchi, Bharathipuram, in the night people have entered their houses and disturbed them. When the villagers tried to catch them they have entered the military camps. In Killnochchi, Barathipuram, when two people entered the house, people tried to catch them but the military helped them to escape. In Jaffna, Navanthurai, the people tried to catch the man, while the military entered their houses and beaten people indiscriminately and arrested 118 people[viii].
Note: The report is based on interviews with 7 men and 1 woman receiving treatment at the Jaffna Hospital and their families; discussions with villagers at the Navanthurai village on 23rd August and Reports in the Uthayan, Thinakural and Valampari newspapers on 24th August.
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[i] Thinakural Newspaper, 24th August p.1 – District Judge ordered 100 persons to be admitted to hospital and for medical certificates to be submitted to Court; Valampari Newspaper, 24th August p.1 – District Judge orders 100 people including 18 seriously injured to be admitted to hospital; Uthayan Newspaper, 24th August p.1 – judge ordered 100 persons to be admitted to hospital. 18 persons seriously injured admitted to hospital after 10 am (Translated from Tamil)
[ii] Thinakural, 24th August p.1, ‘Unannounced Curfew in Navanthurai: People in Fear’ – the villagers submitted to court that the grease men ran into the army camp. They asked the army to produce the grease men but the Army refused. While this was going on they saw that the man had changed his clothes into military uniform. During this time the army brought a lot of military reinforcement s and they heard the sound of shots being fired (translation from Tamil)
[iii] The villagers we spoke to on 23rd August believed that around 150 men may have been detained and that many are still not accounted for. Thinakural on 24th August quotes TNA MP Sreedharan that 118 persons were detained in the military operation; Daily Mirror online on 24th August states that 95 persons were produced in court; Thinakural and Valampuri state that the Jaffna District Court ordered 100 persons to be admitted to hospital on August 23rd.
[iv] This was also mentioned in Thinakural, 24th August, p.1 ‘Jewels stolen during the conflict in Navanthurai’.
[v] Thinakural, 24th August p.1, ‘Unannounced Curfew in Navanthurai: People in Fear’ – report on proceedings in court.
[vi] Thinakural, 24th August ‘Gotabhaya Rajapakse says ‘don’t play with the military and the police’’, p.1.
[vii] Valampari, 24th August, ‘Navanthurai Incident a fabrication’; Uthayan, 24th August, ‘People cant get rid of the military through protests’
[viii] Thinakural, 24th August, Sreedaran MP says that people have clear witnesses to prove that the military are the grease men
http://groundviews.org/2011/08/25/jaffna-brutal-assault-of-civilians-in-navanthurai/
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=34351
HRCSL refuses to register complaints against ‘grease devil’ attacks
25 Aug, 2011 WATCHDOG Human Rights, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War
Around 100 young men from Navanthurai, a village in the Jaffna District, were detained in an operation conducted by the Sri Lanka Army around 1.15am on 23rd August 2011. The villagers were severely beaten by the army and dragged to the main road near the Navanthurai Army Detachment located around 300 meters from the village.
The men were loaded onto buses and handed over to the Jaffna police around 4 am and taken to the Jaffna courts by 10 am and produced before the Jaffna District Judge at around 1 pm the same day (23rd August).
Despite their injuries, the men were held without treatment for over 8 hours. 20 of the most seriously injured were admitted to the Jaffna General Hospital after 10 am, on orders by the District Judge. The rest were denied treatment until around 7.30 pm when we received information that all detainees had been admitted for treatment to the Jaffna Hospital. According to media reports, around 100 people have been admitted for treatment to the Jaffna Hospital on 23rd August[i].
"Grease Devils" in Navanthurai – Confrontation between Military and Villagers
At around 8 pm on 22nd August, villagers spotted five “grease men” in the Navanthurai area. Three men were seen inside the Navanthurai church and two others on trees. When the villagers surrounded and tried to capture the men, they ran into the Navanthurai Army Detachment.
The villagers gathered at the entrance to the Army camp and demanded that the Army produce the grease devils who had run into the camp. The Army refused. A short while later, the villagers saw the grease men being driven out of the camp in an army jeep. They had changed into military uniform[ii] and one man even brandished a knife at the villagers from inside the jeep. Agitated by the protection given by the military to the grease devils the villagers threw stones at the jeep. The head shots being fired by the Army and the crowd was dispersed by around 9.30 pm.
Army operation in Navanthurai
At around 1.15 am on 23rd August, the army entered Navanthurai and detained between 100 – 120 young men from the village[iii].
According to eye witnesses including two Catholic nuns, between 6-12 Army officers entered each house in the village and dragged out men who were sleeping with their families and children. The men were brutally and indiscriminately beaten with rifle butts and iron rods and dragged along the road towards the Army detachment located around 300 meters from the village. Women and children were also beaten in the attack.
When we visited the village that evening, we saw bullet holes in the walls of houses where shots had been fired. Doors and windows had been broken in several houses and villagers said that the army had destroyed furniture and goods inside each house. Many said that valuables including jewelry, phones and money had been taken by the military during the operation[iv].
We saw the bloodied shirt and banyan of a boy who is said to have been beaten inside his home and taken away. We saw blood stains on the road near houses where people were attacked. We also saw a jeep belonging to a villager, the jeep had at least three bullet holes and it appeared that shots had been fired from inside the vehicle. The owner of the jeep who is disabled was also badly beaten.
One villager who is a local businessman said that the army came to his house four times that night and each time they severely beat the men who were inside the house. His 16 year old son was beaten and dragged on to the street by the Army.
The men and young boys of school age were beaten inside their houses and again on the street while being dragged up to the Army Camp. A group of people who had gathered in the village for a funeral vigil, were also beaten, detained or witnessed the attacks.
According to one woman, a man who was carrying a young child was pulled out of his house by the Army. The child he was carrying was flung to aside and the man beaten and dragged away.
The villagers were unable to tell the exact number of officers who entered the village but state that it was well over a 100 officers. There are still conflicting estimates of the exact number of persons detained in the operation. The men were believed to have been held near the Army Camp till around 4 am when they were taken away in buses and handed over to the Jaffna police.
Magistrates Court Jaffna on 23rd August
Around 100 men were produced by the police in the District Court Jaffna. The men were brought to court in their injured state at around 10 am. They were not given access to their relatives until the District Judge intervened and ordered the police to allow one family member to visit the detainees. Several catholic priests, nuns and local civil society activists were also present at the Court. According to those present, the men had visible injuries and showed signs of being severely beaten.
The District Judge ordered 18 of those seriously injured to be admitted to hospital and for the medical certificates to be produced in Court. The men were produced before the District Judge Premashankar in batches after lunch at around 1 pm. We were informed that the rest of the detainees were admitted to hospital only at around 7.30 pm based on the order of the District Judge.
Lawyers for the villagers submitted that the villagers had chased the grease men from their village who had entered the Army camp. The people grew agitated by the Army refusing to produce the men and this was the reason for the confrontation between the military and the villagers. In response, the military had entered the village early morning on 23rd August and mercilessly beaten the villagers[v].
The ASP Jaffna Police, in his submission to Court, accused the villagers of unlawful gathering, disturbing the peace, destruction of public property, attacking the police, injuring a policeman and damaging police vehicles
In the evening on 23rd August, the Jaffna District Court Judge ordered all 95 persons who were arrested by police in Navanthurai, to be remanded till August 26. The Judge also ordered all detainees to be admitted to hospital for treatment and for the medical certificates to be produced in Court. 24 lawyers will appear for the detainees on August 26.
Jaffna General Hospital
At around 5 pm, we visited the Jaffna hospital with two Catholic priests and a Buddhist monk from the inter-religious council in Jaffna. In total 20 persons had been admitted to hospital by Court Order.
We met around 7 of the men injured in the attack and their families. Many were still being brought back to the ward from surgery. All the men we spoke to had suffered fractured bones in their arms and legs, some had head injuries and all showed signs of torture or severe beating.
Each person we spoke to had been sleeping inside their homes or in a vehicle when they were pulled out and beaten by the Army. We also met a young woman who was visiting relatives in Jaffna with her husband, who had also been injured in the attack.
We were told that several more were still held at the Jaffna court without treatment. At around 7 pm we received information that a further 35 persons had been admitted to hospital for treatment. The rest are believed to have been brought to hospital for treatment at around 7.30 pm.
Increased Military Presence in Navanthurai Village
According to Jaffna area commander, Major General Hathurusinghe, the military has ‘increased troops and were conducting foot and mobile patrols in the area to assist the police’. When we visited the village at around 5.30 pm, there was an increased military presence around the village. We also saw several women and children with bags leaving their homes. We were told that almost all the men in the village had been taken away by the military or were in hiding and the women were worried about staying at home alone in the night with Army officers still patrolling the village.
The people expressed fear and insecurity due to the heavy military presence and specifically asked for police protection to be given to the village and for Tamil speaking policemen sent to the village. The Buddhist monk spoke to the ASP Jaffna and special police officers were stationed in the village on 23rd night to look after the security of the people.
Statements by Government officials, MPs, Military and the Police
Speaking to a gathering of Muslim Representatives from Ampara, Batticaloa and Puttalam on August 23rd, Defence Secretary, Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapakse said that, ‘the Government will not tolerate those who disturb the peace and law of the country… Severe action will be taken against those who try to take the law into their hands’. Mr. Rajapakse also said that ‘the Government is trying to build a weaponless society and any person who tries to disturb that will be severely dealt with’. ‘Severe action will be taken against people who have attacked the military and army camps and that the Government will not hesitate to treat those who enter the military camp as terrorists’ (translated from Tamil).[vi]
Mr. Rajapakse denied the existence of the grease man and said that these were all constructed in an attempt to discredit the Government. Responding to allegations that the Government was instigating these incidents in order to extend Emergency Regulations he said that this was not their intention and the president has all power to extend or cancel emergency. Extending or withdrawing Emergency will not be influenced by external pressure from India, the US or the UK and not by the Grease man’.
Major General Hathurisinghe, Area Commander for Jaffna said that, this incident was an attempt by politicians and people to disturb the harmony between the military and the people. He said that the military could not tolerate or sit by while people took the law into their hands. There is no such thing as a grease man and these are fabricated stories and no complaints have been made in the police stations. When the police tried to control the situation, people threw bottles and attacked the officers with chains, batons, tube lights and iron bars. People also damaged a police vehicle. As a result the police asked the military to help. Despite this the people attacked the military and we have arrested 100 persons. This is a well planned incident and the people came ready to attack the military and the police[vii].
Major General Hathurusinghe also said that the people will not succeed in removing the military through protests and attacks. This is a matter to be decided by the Defence Ministry and the people have no say in this.
Minister Douglas Devananda said that those caught disturbing the peace will be punished regardless of who they are. He went on to say that village level vigilance committees will be set up to maintain the peace.
TNA MP Mr. Sreedaran stated in parliament on 23rd August that the people had clear proof that the grease men were really the military officers who were attacking the villagers. He said that in Jaffna Navanthurai, Vadamarachchi, Polikanty, and Vathurai and in Killnochchi, Bharathipuram, in the night people have entered their houses and disturbed them. When the villagers tried to catch them they have entered the military camps. In Killnochchi, Barathipuram, when two people entered the house, people tried to catch them but the military helped them to escape. In Jaffna, Navanthurai, the people tried to catch the man, while the military entered their houses and beaten people indiscriminately and arrested 118 people[viii].
Note: The report is based on interviews with 7 men and 1 woman receiving treatment at the Jaffna Hospital and their families; discussions with villagers at the Navanthurai village on 23rd August and Reports in the Uthayan, Thinakural and Valampari newspapers on 24th August.
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[i] Thinakural Newspaper, 24th August p.1 – District Judge ordered 100 persons to be admitted to hospital and for medical certificates to be submitted to Court; Valampari Newspaper, 24th August p.1 – District Judge orders 100 people including 18 seriously injured to be admitted to hospital; Uthayan Newspaper, 24th August p.1 – judge ordered 100 persons to be admitted to hospital. 18 persons seriously injured admitted to hospital after 10 am (Translated from Tamil)
[ii] Thinakural, 24th August p.1, ‘Unannounced Curfew in Navanthurai: People in Fear’ – the villagers submitted to court that the grease men ran into the army camp. They asked the army to produce the grease men but the Army refused. While this was going on they saw that the man had changed his clothes into military uniform. During this time the army brought a lot of military reinforcement s and they heard the sound of shots being fired (translation from Tamil)
[iii] The villagers we spoke to on 23rd August believed that around 150 men may have been detained and that many are still not accounted for. Thinakural on 24th August quotes TNA MP Sreedharan that 118 persons were detained in the military operation; Daily Mirror online on 24th August states that 95 persons were produced in court; Thinakural and Valampuri state that the Jaffna District Court ordered 100 persons to be admitted to hospital on August 23rd.
[iv] This was also mentioned in Thinakural, 24th August, p.1 ‘Jewels stolen during the conflict in Navanthurai’.
[v] Thinakural, 24th August p.1, ‘Unannounced Curfew in Navanthurai: People in Fear’ – report on proceedings in court.
[vi] Thinakural, 24th August ‘Gotabhaya Rajapakse says ‘don’t play with the military and the police’’, p.1.
[vii] Valampari, 24th August, ‘Navanthurai Incident a fabrication’; Uthayan, 24th August, ‘People cant get rid of the military through protests’
[viii] Thinakural, 24th August, Sreedaran MP says that people have clear witnesses to prove that the military are the grease men
http://groundviews.org/2011/08/25/jaffna-brutal-assault-of-civilians-in-navanthurai/
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=34351
HRCSL refuses to register complaints against ‘grease devil’ attacks
"We demand an end to the presence of Turkish military bases and their intelligence agencies in Kurdistan's territory."
Kurdish Regional Government ask Turkey to apologize for raids
27 August 2011, Kurdish leaders asked Turkey for an apology as Turkish authorities denied civilian casualties. Politicians the Kurdistan Regional Government on Friday have asked Turkey to apologize for a week of air strikes across the border and has called for a closure of Turkish military bases inside Iraqi territory.
After local officials reported a Turkish air strike killed seven civilians on Sunday, protests were staged in the capital Erbil (Hewler) and other towns.
In the first official comment from Turkey on the civilian deaths, the Turkish authorities denied any casualties. But Iraq's central government has summoned the Turkish ambassador to demand an end to air strikes and the regional Kurdish government condemned the deaths.
"We demand an end to the presence of Turkish military bases and their intelligence agencies in Kurdistan's territory," the Iraqi Kurdish parliament said in a statement. "We demand the Turkish government make a formal apology to the people and the Kurdistan government."
According to Iraq's foreign ministry Turkey has around 1,300 military in Iraqi territory at small observation posts set up in the 1990s with the permission of Baghdad.
ANF / ERBIL/HEWLER
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=home
27 August 2011, Kurdish leaders asked Turkey for an apology as Turkish authorities denied civilian casualties. Politicians the Kurdistan Regional Government on Friday have asked Turkey to apologize for a week of air strikes across the border and has called for a closure of Turkish military bases inside Iraqi territory.
After local officials reported a Turkish air strike killed seven civilians on Sunday, protests were staged in the capital Erbil (Hewler) and other towns.
In the first official comment from Turkey on the civilian deaths, the Turkish authorities denied any casualties. But Iraq's central government has summoned the Turkish ambassador to demand an end to air strikes and the regional Kurdish government condemned the deaths.
"We demand an end to the presence of Turkish military bases and their intelligence agencies in Kurdistan's territory," the Iraqi Kurdish parliament said in a statement. "We demand the Turkish government make a formal apology to the people and the Kurdistan government."
According to Iraq's foreign ministry Turkey has around 1,300 military in Iraqi territory at small observation posts set up in the 1990s with the permission of Baghdad.
ANF / ERBIL/HEWLER
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=home
Deputy Leyla Zana writes to Obama and Ban Ki-Moon
Leyla Zana MP says to world leaders: it is time you speak
27 August 2011, Diyarbakır deputy Leyla Zana has sent a letter to the U.S. President Barack Obama, NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, President of the Council of Europe, Herman Van Rompuy and Turkish President Abdullah Gül regarding the most recent policy implemented against the Kurdish people.
While Turkey's air strike continues in southern Kurdistan, Diyarbakir deputy Leyla Zana, in a letter to the leaders of the world, criticized the silence over the growing attacks against Kurds.
Deputy Leyla Zana's letter is as follows;
While the world is going through a very fast process of change and transformation and the Middle East is witnessing new developments, our people who are deprived of the fairness of the history still continue their struggle for “existence” at the cost of their lives.
When it comes to the Kurds and their political status, the world opinion keeps remaining silent and condoning the right and boundary violations, bombings on villages, houses and people, regardless of women, men and children, cross-border operations and the ongoing aerial operations. This situation is greeted with great astonishment by our people and considered difficult to understand.
The constant attack position of these powers and their intention to destroy all the values of Kurds do not comply with the character of the 21st century and the principles of fairness in the world.
The latest aerial attacks on Kandil, which have killed a civilian family in the region, are defended by Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey which is currently trying to set an example of a “model country” to the Middle East and conducting negotiations to be a member of the EU. In a statement to a national newspaper, the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister, saying that “the operations are legitimate and true”, didn’t abstain from defending the attacks which target civilians. (Bülent Arınç/Cihan News Agency/22.08.2011)
I would like to express my regret that the Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey is increasing the policy of violence against Kurds as the Western world is holding up him as an example to the Middle East.
I am greatly worried that we may face a modern dictatorship while the dictatorial regimes in the Middle East are falling down. The state’s attitude which forces the whole society to think the same with itself and the closure cases against the worldwide multilingual Roj Tv need to be accepted as a sign in this regard.
In brief, the military, political, diplomatic attacks launched against the Kurds and most importantly, the boundless attacks on our civilian people are in front of the eyes of the world public opinion. It is possible to foresee how the destruction of an oppressed people’s children will deepen the deadlock.
All efforts of the Kurdish side are intended for finding a democratic and political solution to this problem. Although Mr. Ocalan has many times silenced the weapons since 1993 and created opportunities for obtaining the rights of the Kurdish people on a democratic ground as well as convincing his public that the problem can be solved in this way, the state has negated all these processes with a negative attitude and turned a blind eye to these opportunities.
Resisting extraordinarily about defining the problem, the state has at every turn considered and applied violence as the single method of solving the Kurdish question.
Mr.President,
In the testimony of the whole world’s humanity, the geography which has been in a conflict environment for two hundred years is now expecting peace and quiet.
Kurdistan's geography should not be a second Paletsine and the Sri Lanka simulation shouldn’t even be associated with the situation in Turkey. Otherwise, a social chaos and an ethnic war among the peoples will be unavoidable, which will no doubt drag the world peace and humanity into more disaster.
I expect and wish that you will meet the requirements of your both conscience and position.
D.F. - ANF / DIYARBAKIR/AMED
ANF NEWS AGENCY Use of chemical weapons by Turkish army exposed
27 August 2011, Diyarbakır deputy Leyla Zana has sent a letter to the U.S. President Barack Obama, NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, President of the Council of Europe, Herman Van Rompuy and Turkish President Abdullah Gül regarding the most recent policy implemented against the Kurdish people.
While Turkey's air strike continues in southern Kurdistan, Diyarbakir deputy Leyla Zana, in a letter to the leaders of the world, criticized the silence over the growing attacks against Kurds.
Deputy Leyla Zana's letter is as follows;
While the world is going through a very fast process of change and transformation and the Middle East is witnessing new developments, our people who are deprived of the fairness of the history still continue their struggle for “existence” at the cost of their lives.
When it comes to the Kurds and their political status, the world opinion keeps remaining silent and condoning the right and boundary violations, bombings on villages, houses and people, regardless of women, men and children, cross-border operations and the ongoing aerial operations. This situation is greeted with great astonishment by our people and considered difficult to understand.
The constant attack position of these powers and their intention to destroy all the values of Kurds do not comply with the character of the 21st century and the principles of fairness in the world.
The latest aerial attacks on Kandil, which have killed a civilian family in the region, are defended by Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey which is currently trying to set an example of a “model country” to the Middle East and conducting negotiations to be a member of the EU. In a statement to a national newspaper, the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister, saying that “the operations are legitimate and true”, didn’t abstain from defending the attacks which target civilians. (Bülent Arınç/Cihan News Agency/22.08.2011)
I would like to express my regret that the Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey is increasing the policy of violence against Kurds as the Western world is holding up him as an example to the Middle East.
I am greatly worried that we may face a modern dictatorship while the dictatorial regimes in the Middle East are falling down. The state’s attitude which forces the whole society to think the same with itself and the closure cases against the worldwide multilingual Roj Tv need to be accepted as a sign in this regard.
In brief, the military, political, diplomatic attacks launched against the Kurds and most importantly, the boundless attacks on our civilian people are in front of the eyes of the world public opinion. It is possible to foresee how the destruction of an oppressed people’s children will deepen the deadlock.
All efforts of the Kurdish side are intended for finding a democratic and political solution to this problem. Although Mr. Ocalan has many times silenced the weapons since 1993 and created opportunities for obtaining the rights of the Kurdish people on a democratic ground as well as convincing his public that the problem can be solved in this way, the state has negated all these processes with a negative attitude and turned a blind eye to these opportunities.
Resisting extraordinarily about defining the problem, the state has at every turn considered and applied violence as the single method of solving the Kurdish question.
Mr.President,
In the testimony of the whole world’s humanity, the geography which has been in a conflict environment for two hundred years is now expecting peace and quiet.
Kurdistan's geography should not be a second Paletsine and the Sri Lanka simulation shouldn’t even be associated with the situation in Turkey. Otherwise, a social chaos and an ethnic war among the peoples will be unavoidable, which will no doubt drag the world peace and humanity into more disaster.
I expect and wish that you will meet the requirements of your both conscience and position.
D.F. - ANF / DIYARBAKIR/AMED
ANF NEWS AGENCY Use of chemical weapons by Turkish army exposed
Friday, August 26, 2011
"Promoting democracy" in splendid diplomacy in a great neighbourhood further to Libya and over a whole continent
Turkish bombing on Zap region
Peace Mothers Initiative entered second week
"Promoting democracy" i.e NATO´s daily bombardment of Tripoli and Kurdistan, while the Iraqi, Afghan, Baloch etc...etc.. genocides continues.
Burn: Turkey’s Bombardment of Kandil Mountain
Rockets directed at Pokka Prison, not Kuwait
5 killed, 20 wounded in Basra explosion
Iraq’s 7th Army Division Commander escapes assassination attempt
Iraqi soldier killed in Mosul explosion
Seven policemen killed, 3 others, 2 civilians injured in Ramadi
Iraqi soldier killed, 2 injured in Falluja, west Iraq
Turkish paroll: "Zero neighbours - Zero problems."
Peace Mothers Initiative entered second week
"Promoting democracy" i.e NATO´s daily bombardment of Tripoli and Kurdistan, while the Iraqi, Afghan, Baloch etc...etc.. genocides continues.
Burn: Turkey’s Bombardment of Kandil Mountain
Rockets directed at Pokka Prison, not Kuwait
5 killed, 20 wounded in Basra explosion
Iraq’s 7th Army Division Commander escapes assassination attempt
Iraqi soldier killed in Mosul explosion
Seven policemen killed, 3 others, 2 civilians injured in Ramadi
Iraqi soldier killed, 2 injured in Falluja, west Iraq
Turkish paroll: "Zero neighbours - Zero problems."
GET THE PICTURE: Turkey/NATO/UN security council: People of Hopa on trial for defending right to life
26 August 2011, Seven people are facing "terrorist propaganda" charges in Hopa after PM election visit unrest. Seven people who were arrested in the course of unrests before and after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's visit to Hopa in June this year are now being tried in Erzurum under allegations of "spreading propaganda for an illegal organization".
Reporting on the news, Bianet writes that the defendants stand accused of "making propaganda for the Turkey's People's Liberation Party-Front (THKP-C). Erdoğan had visited the city on the eastern Black Sea coast during the run-up to the general elections.
The four-page indictment indicates slogans, marches, banners and raising the left fist as 'evidence' of the seven people propaganda making. In the previous ruling, the prosecutor had written that the defendants "had no connections to an illegal organization".
Lawyer Gülşen Uzuner, Secretary General of the Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD) Ankara Branch, told bianet, "The people of Hopa are being punished because they defended their right to life and their right for water and because they have revolutionary opinions".
Hundreds of people demonstrated against hydroelectric power plants in Hopa (Artvin) on 31 May, the day of Erdoğan's rally in the city. 54-year old retired teacher Metin Lokumcu died of a heart attack when the police intervened against the demonstrators with the massive use of tear gas. Police officer Servet Erkan was injured when he fell off a vehicle.
Bianet recalls that a total of 36 people were arrested in Hopa, Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir during protests against Lokumcu's death and the police intervention. Only in Hopa 14 people were arrested, seven of whom are now on trial under Article 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law (TMK) related to propaganda for an illegal organization.
The indictment prepared by Special Authority Public Prosecutor Rasim Karakullukçu was accepted this Wednesday (24 August). It demands prison sentences of between one and three years each for defendants Ali Aksu, İbrahim Aksu, Görgü Demirpençe, İdris Akbıyık, Erhan Köse, Şafak Ustabaş and Önder Öner. The first hearing before the Erzurum 4th High Criminal Court is set for 14 September.
Bianet underlines that the indictment mentions that the legal action started upon the statement of the Artvin Provincial Police Anti-Terror Branch Directorate claiming that "the incidents in Hopa were organized by illegal left-wing organizations". It is furthermore said that members of the legal organizations of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) Hopa District Organization, the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) and the Community Centres gathered to protest the rally of PM Erdoğan.
ANF / NEWS DESK
Reporting on the news, Bianet writes that the defendants stand accused of "making propaganda for the Turkey's People's Liberation Party-Front (THKP-C). Erdoğan had visited the city on the eastern Black Sea coast during the run-up to the general elections.
The four-page indictment indicates slogans, marches, banners and raising the left fist as 'evidence' of the seven people propaganda making. In the previous ruling, the prosecutor had written that the defendants "had no connections to an illegal organization".
Lawyer Gülşen Uzuner, Secretary General of the Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD) Ankara Branch, told bianet, "The people of Hopa are being punished because they defended their right to life and their right for water and because they have revolutionary opinions".
Hundreds of people demonstrated against hydroelectric power plants in Hopa (Artvin) on 31 May, the day of Erdoğan's rally in the city. 54-year old retired teacher Metin Lokumcu died of a heart attack when the police intervened against the demonstrators with the massive use of tear gas. Police officer Servet Erkan was injured when he fell off a vehicle.
Bianet recalls that a total of 36 people were arrested in Hopa, Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir during protests against Lokumcu's death and the police intervention. Only in Hopa 14 people were arrested, seven of whom are now on trial under Article 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law (TMK) related to propaganda for an illegal organization.
The indictment prepared by Special Authority Public Prosecutor Rasim Karakullukçu was accepted this Wednesday (24 August). It demands prison sentences of between one and three years each for defendants Ali Aksu, İbrahim Aksu, Görgü Demirpençe, İdris Akbıyık, Erhan Köse, Şafak Ustabaş and Önder Öner. The first hearing before the Erzurum 4th High Criminal Court is set for 14 September.
Bianet underlines that the indictment mentions that the legal action started upon the statement of the Artvin Provincial Police Anti-Terror Branch Directorate claiming that "the incidents in Hopa were organized by illegal left-wing organizations". It is furthermore said that members of the legal organizations of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) Hopa District Organization, the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) and the Community Centres gathered to protest the rally of PM Erdoğan.
ANF / NEWS DESK
It´s not about bilateral trade is it. It´s actually total exterminations, total destruction's and it´s put in system for decades and intended
US, NATO and International Community should help the Baloch instead of relying on Pakistan: Hyrbyair Marri
Protest spread in South Kurdistan
Military convoy stopped by human shields for one hour
The intentions of crimes against humanity put in system for decades will be VERY #¤¤ clear!
Protest spread in South Kurdistan
Military convoy stopped by human shields for one hour
The intentions of crimes against humanity put in system for decades will be VERY #¤¤ clear!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
4 months ago
Waiting for Turkey in the UN security council and NATO as the savior of wounded and be promoted as the US democratic example world wide in cooperation's with the Iranian regime. Meanwhile, we should count the exterminations, ethnically cleanings and genocides going on.
Benchmark, standard on NATO
Kurdish youth marched to Turkish consulate in Erbil
Kurdish youth to march to war zones as human shields
Fifth day of action by peace mothers in Şırnak
Seven policemen killed, 3 others, 2 civilians injured in Ramadi
Iraqi soldier killed, 2 injured in Falluja, west Iraq
Civilian assassinated in Ninewa
2 women injured in west Mosul
Over 50 Kurdish families desert their homes
Iraqi Police officer, his bodyguard, injured in assassination attempt in Baaquba
Pro-government Sahwa element killed in Baaquba
Four killed, 3 injured in explosion against immigrant family in Diala
Cop killed in Mosul
West Iraq Hit City Council Member killed with his son
Tribal leader and his son, killed in Mosul
Fao's mayor demands area be declared "disaster area"
A Kurd from Mako was killed by the Iranian soldiers on a check point, and 7 other were arrested in Meriwan on the ground of working with the Kurdish political parties.
According to the latest information we received from East Kurdistan, on 21st August, Yousef Mirzayi Alem Holi from the village of Dim Qishlaq of Mako province, came under the gun fire of the Iranian soldiers while he was going back to his house with his children.
Mr Mirzay Alem Holi was killed on the spot; his daughter and son were taken captive by the Iranian soldiers.
In the meantime a brigade of the Iranian Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) raided the villages of Gweze Kor and Espriz in Meriwan areas arrested 7 people.
Kurdish youth to march to war zones as human shields
Fifth day of action by peace mothers in Şırnak
Seven policemen killed, 3 others, 2 civilians injured in Ramadi
Iraqi soldier killed, 2 injured in Falluja, west Iraq
Civilian assassinated in Ninewa
2 women injured in west Mosul
Over 50 Kurdish families desert their homes
Iraqi Police officer, his bodyguard, injured in assassination attempt in Baaquba
Pro-government Sahwa element killed in Baaquba
Four killed, 3 injured in explosion against immigrant family in Diala
Cop killed in Mosul
West Iraq Hit City Council Member killed with his son
Tribal leader and his son, killed in Mosul
Fao's mayor demands area be declared "disaster area"
ISAF operation sparks protest in Ghazni
24 August 2011, IRAN, -- While Iran is escalating its military attacks in East Kurdistan; it also sees no constraint in killing and arresting of the local residents.A Kurd from Mako was killed by the Iranian soldiers on a check point, and 7 other were arrested in Meriwan on the ground of working with the Kurdish political parties.
According to the latest information we received from East Kurdistan, on 21st August, Yousef Mirzayi Alem Holi from the village of Dim Qishlaq of Mako province, came under the gun fire of the Iranian soldiers while he was going back to his house with his children.
Mr Mirzay Alem Holi was killed on the spot; his daughter and son were taken captive by the Iranian soldiers.
In the meantime a brigade of the Iranian Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) raided the villages of Gweze Kor and Espriz in Meriwan areas arrested 7 people.
Ahmadinejad is a CIA asset since 1979..
Just like the "rebel Libyan leader" with Libyan "rebels" forced to fight against forced US and British trained Gaddafi forces..It´s actually no coincident trained "special forces" and British sniper rifles are spread over whole continents, while militants have came through Syria to participate in the Iraqi genocide.
As we said: This so called blog is just a hint..of what´s to be expected.
As we said: This so called blog is just a hint..of what´s to be expected.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
A whole lot of bullsh*t talk..decade after decade after decade of crimes..
It´s to "choose ones enemies"..Isn´t it.."It´s worth it" ...Isn´t it..
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=2918
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=2918
Palestinians rally, British Gas (BG Group) and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields
22/08/2011 RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinians rallied in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday night in a show of support for the people of Gaza and Syria. Dozens gathered in the city streets holding Syrian and Palestinian flags.
The protesters slammed Israel's air strikes on Gaza, which have killed 14 Palestinians since Thursday, calling on international human rights organizations to intervene to end the hostilities.
A youth campaign to end division between the ruling West Bank party Fatah, and Gaza leaders from Hamas, called the event, which also slammed the killing of civilians by the Syrian army.
Demonstrators held banners demanding the international community intervene to stop the military strikes in Gaza, and chanted slogans slamming the ongoing assault "while the whole world is watching."
Protesters said the UN Security Council should take responsibility to halt hostilities, and called for Palestinians in the diaspora to stand beside Palestinians in Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=415221
Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11680
The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. Discovered in 2000, there are extensive gas reserves off the Gaza coastline.
British Gas (BG Group) and its partner, the Athens based Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC) owned by Lebanon's Sabbagh and Koury families, were granted oil and gas exploration rights in a 25 year agreement signed in November 1999 with the Palestinian Authority.
The rights to the offshore gas field are respectively British Gas (60 percent); Consolidated Contractors (CCC) (30 percent); and the Investment Fund of the Palestinian Authority (10 percent). (Haaretz, October 21, 2007).
The PA-BG-CCC agreement includes field development and the construction of a gas pipeline.(Middle East Economic Digest, Jan 5, 2001).
The BG licence covers the entire Gazan offshore marine area, which is contiguous to several Israeli offshore gas facilities. It should be noted that 60 percent of the gas reserves along the Gaza-Israel coastline belong to Palestine.
The BG Group drilled two wells in 2000: Gaza Marine-1 and Gaza Marine-2. Reserves are estimated by British Gas to be of the order of 1.4 trillion cubic feet, valued at approximately 4 billion dollars. These are the figures made public by British Gas.
The protesters slammed Israel's air strikes on Gaza, which have killed 14 Palestinians since Thursday, calling on international human rights organizations to intervene to end the hostilities.
A youth campaign to end division between the ruling West Bank party Fatah, and Gaza leaders from Hamas, called the event, which also slammed the killing of civilians by the Syrian army.
Demonstrators held banners demanding the international community intervene to stop the military strikes in Gaza, and chanted slogans slamming the ongoing assault "while the whole world is watching."
Protesters said the UN Security Council should take responsibility to halt hostilities, and called for Palestinians in the diaspora to stand beside Palestinians in Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=415221
Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11680
The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. Discovered in 2000, there are extensive gas reserves off the Gaza coastline.
British Gas (BG Group) and its partner, the Athens based Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC) owned by Lebanon's Sabbagh and Koury families, were granted oil and gas exploration rights in a 25 year agreement signed in November 1999 with the Palestinian Authority.
The rights to the offshore gas field are respectively British Gas (60 percent); Consolidated Contractors (CCC) (30 percent); and the Investment Fund of the Palestinian Authority (10 percent). (Haaretz, October 21, 2007).
The PA-BG-CCC agreement includes field development and the construction of a gas pipeline.(Middle East Economic Digest, Jan 5, 2001).
The BG licence covers the entire Gazan offshore marine area, which is contiguous to several Israeli offshore gas facilities. It should be noted that 60 percent of the gas reserves along the Gaza-Israel coastline belong to Palestine.
The BG Group drilled two wells in 2000: Gaza Marine-1 and Gaza Marine-2. Reserves are estimated by British Gas to be of the order of 1.4 trillion cubic feet, valued at approximately 4 billion dollars. These are the figures made public by British Gas.
Iranian Human Rights Urges UN to Intervene Immediately
Iran Human Rights seriously concerned about the safety of human rights defender Kouhyar Goudarzi
IHR Urges UN to Intervene Immediately: Serious concern about political prisoners on hunger strike in Iran http://iranhr.net/?debut_articles_recents=15#pagination_articles_recents
Full fledged Genocides, exterminations, total ethnically cleanings going on for decades. Exterminations under occupations for exploitations and the rest is PURE #¤¤ BULLSH*T talk!
IHR Urges UN to Intervene Immediately: Serious concern about political prisoners on hunger strike in Iran http://iranhr.net/?debut_articles_recents=15#pagination_articles_recents
Full fledged Genocides, exterminations, total ethnically cleanings going on for decades. Exterminations under occupations for exploitations and the rest is PURE #¤¤ BULLSH*T talk!
The extermination, genocide actually continues, while "promoting democracy" in Libya and Syria while exploiting oil and gas in Iraq and Kurdistan
KSI strongly condemns Turkish air raid
22 August 2011, -- Seven civilians killed by Turkish actions across the Iraqi border which have been targeting Kurdish positions for five days. The Turkish action has been met by silence from the international community and media.
Kurdistan Solidarity Ireland (KSI) strongly condemns the cross border air raids being carried out against Kurdish targets – both civilian and guerrilla – by Turkey. Beginning on the night of Wednesday August 17 Turkish fighter jets have repeatedly targeted dozens of locations in the Medya Defence Regions – the areas of South Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) controlled by PKK – including villages.
The electricity supply to many villages has been interrupted in the area since Wednesday and a number of villages have been evacuated. Kurdish sources stated that the guerrillas have suffered no losses in the attacks, which had been anticipated. Today Firat News Agency named seven Kurdish civilians, including four children and one woman, who were killed by the Turkish attacks. The victims were reportedly fleeing the bombing when their vehicle was targeted by Turkish warplanes.
On behalf of Kurdish exiles living in Ireland, their friends and supporters, we condemn the Turkish government of AKP for these attacks and for their increasingly intolerant attitude to the Kurdish population. Despite constant calls for peace and dialogue from the Kurdish side, the government response has been intransigence, repression and denial, culminating in this latest escalation of war.
We call on European leaders and the Irish government in particular to condemn these airstrikes, to recognise Kurdish autonomy within the state of Turkey and to draw upon their own experience of peacemaking to encourage their Turkish counterparts to recognise the futility of a military response to this conflict and to seek a peaceful, negotiated and democratic solution to the Kurdish issue.
KCK prisoners: declaration of deadlock
24 August 2011, Statement by the Kurdish politicians and activists under trial
Once again the prisoners in the so called KCK (Confederation of Kurdish Communities) trial have expressed their worries for a trial which is so clearly a bluff and unmotivated trial that the only way to keep it going is to continue to postpone it. Two years have passed since the first arrests of many Kurdish politicians and activists and yet to date not a single "evidence" has been produced in court. Because there is no "crime" and so there could be no evidence.
The operation was designed to be a "preventive" operation: indeed thousands of politicians and activists have been arrested in the hope that after their detention some kind of evidence of some kind of crime would come up. Of course it could work like that. And yet scores of politicians, elected representatives, activists are being kept in prison for the sake of it. Or rather with the precise aim to prevent them from doing what they have been elected to do, run the cities, municipalities, councils, civil society organisations. In this sense, yes, the operation succeed in being 'preventive'.
The prisoners, in a long statement write that:
“This concept of attack on the democratic political struggle of the Kurdish people has been implemented with the approval of Prime Minister Erdogan himself and through police force, militants of the Gulen Sect, and judiciary support."
"The main purpose of these operations, as the democratic public opinion knows, is to break the will of Kurdish people and to make them submit through their leading institutions and administrators. The attempt to attack on the Kurdish language, culture, identity and demands with all kinds of special warfare methods is the intention to reach a definitive conclusion failed by the September 12 military coup which was trying to destroy the awakening conscience of the Kurdish people".
Similarly, the statement reads, "April 14 coup aimed at making Kurds disorganized and weak. The mentality is two of a kind in terms of perspective and purpose. Therefore, the trial judging is a conjuncture result of a plan with strategic goals. The trial is therefore an unlawful political conspiracy, as we have expressed many times. Through us, the case intends to judge a people’s struggle for freedom and equality, the democratic politics and all achievements obtained on this democratic ground. This reality necessitates a political approach to the case.”
The prisoners of the KCK trial further state that “Despite everything, in order to respond to the accusation which was ordered to keep the truths hidden, to adjust the reversed facts and to decipher the political conspiracy, we prepared our defenses written both in Kurdish and Turkish so that we could take advantage of our right of defense which we individually regard as divine."
"We also issued a common defense speech which in the same way reflected our common thoughts. However, our demand and right to express ourselves in our mother tongue was denied at the first hearing which first took place 18 months after our imprisonment. Our language was despised and recorded as “unintelligible language”. We once more faced the naked face of the policy of denial and ignore. Our demand for translator was also rejected. We were exposed to unjust accusations and lie allegations and insults during the reading of the indictment which lasted for days."
When we were after a very long time allowed to speak, the court didn’t let us to defend ourselves in our mother language. We were forced to abandon our “language and identity”.
ANF / DIYARBAKIR/AMED
ANF NEWS AGENCY
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=home
22 August 2011, -- Seven civilians killed by Turkish actions across the Iraqi border which have been targeting Kurdish positions for five days. The Turkish action has been met by silence from the international community and media.
Kurdistan Solidarity Ireland (KSI) strongly condemns the cross border air raids being carried out against Kurdish targets – both civilian and guerrilla – by Turkey. Beginning on the night of Wednesday August 17 Turkish fighter jets have repeatedly targeted dozens of locations in the Medya Defence Regions – the areas of South Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) controlled by PKK – including villages.
The electricity supply to many villages has been interrupted in the area since Wednesday and a number of villages have been evacuated. Kurdish sources stated that the guerrillas have suffered no losses in the attacks, which had been anticipated. Today Firat News Agency named seven Kurdish civilians, including four children and one woman, who were killed by the Turkish attacks. The victims were reportedly fleeing the bombing when their vehicle was targeted by Turkish warplanes.
On behalf of Kurdish exiles living in Ireland, their friends and supporters, we condemn the Turkish government of AKP for these attacks and for their increasingly intolerant attitude to the Kurdish population. Despite constant calls for peace and dialogue from the Kurdish side, the government response has been intransigence, repression and denial, culminating in this latest escalation of war.
We call on European leaders and the Irish government in particular to condemn these airstrikes, to recognise Kurdish autonomy within the state of Turkey and to draw upon their own experience of peacemaking to encourage their Turkish counterparts to recognise the futility of a military response to this conflict and to seek a peaceful, negotiated and democratic solution to the Kurdish issue.
KCK prisoners: declaration of deadlock
24 August 2011, Statement by the Kurdish politicians and activists under trial
Once again the prisoners in the so called KCK (Confederation of Kurdish Communities) trial have expressed their worries for a trial which is so clearly a bluff and unmotivated trial that the only way to keep it going is to continue to postpone it. Two years have passed since the first arrests of many Kurdish politicians and activists and yet to date not a single "evidence" has been produced in court. Because there is no "crime" and so there could be no evidence.
The operation was designed to be a "preventive" operation: indeed thousands of politicians and activists have been arrested in the hope that after their detention some kind of evidence of some kind of crime would come up. Of course it could work like that. And yet scores of politicians, elected representatives, activists are being kept in prison for the sake of it. Or rather with the precise aim to prevent them from doing what they have been elected to do, run the cities, municipalities, councils, civil society organisations. In this sense, yes, the operation succeed in being 'preventive'.
The prisoners, in a long statement write that:
“This concept of attack on the democratic political struggle of the Kurdish people has been implemented with the approval of Prime Minister Erdogan himself and through police force, militants of the Gulen Sect, and judiciary support."
"The main purpose of these operations, as the democratic public opinion knows, is to break the will of Kurdish people and to make them submit through their leading institutions and administrators. The attempt to attack on the Kurdish language, culture, identity and demands with all kinds of special warfare methods is the intention to reach a definitive conclusion failed by the September 12 military coup which was trying to destroy the awakening conscience of the Kurdish people".
Similarly, the statement reads, "April 14 coup aimed at making Kurds disorganized and weak. The mentality is two of a kind in terms of perspective and purpose. Therefore, the trial judging is a conjuncture result of a plan with strategic goals. The trial is therefore an unlawful political conspiracy, as we have expressed many times. Through us, the case intends to judge a people’s struggle for freedom and equality, the democratic politics and all achievements obtained on this democratic ground. This reality necessitates a political approach to the case.”
The prisoners of the KCK trial further state that “Despite everything, in order to respond to the accusation which was ordered to keep the truths hidden, to adjust the reversed facts and to decipher the political conspiracy, we prepared our defenses written both in Kurdish and Turkish so that we could take advantage of our right of defense which we individually regard as divine."
"We also issued a common defense speech which in the same way reflected our common thoughts. However, our demand and right to express ourselves in our mother tongue was denied at the first hearing which first took place 18 months after our imprisonment. Our language was despised and recorded as “unintelligible language”. We once more faced the naked face of the policy of denial and ignore. Our demand for translator was also rejected. We were exposed to unjust accusations and lie allegations and insults during the reading of the indictment which lasted for days."
When we were after a very long time allowed to speak, the court didn’t let us to defend ourselves in our mother language. We were forced to abandon our “language and identity”.
ANF / DIYARBAKIR/AMED
ANF NEWS AGENCY
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=home
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