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On 9/13/18 9:42 PM, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote:
******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. ***************************************************************** Extract from "Revolution in Rojava", p. 54: 'The Revolution begins in Kobani 'At 1 a.m. on the night of July 18-19, 2012, the YPG took control of the roads leading in and out of Kobani city. Inside the city, the majority of the people, who supported the MGRK [Peoples Council of West Kurdistan], occupied the state institutions. "We had marked which buildings we should take over", recalled Pelda Kobani, who participated that night, "which ones were useful for the people, even bakeries" The people then assembled at the regime army's strongpoint in Kobani, and a delegation informed the regime soldiers, "if you give up your weapons, your security will be guaranteed". The soldiers looked out over the mass of people, and seeing that they had no alternative, they agreed; some returned to their families in the Arab cities, while others preferred to remain in Kobani because they had lived there for forty years. 'The state had no substantial military force", said Hanife Hisen. "We surrounded them...and they surrendered. The regime could't send them any reinforcements. We didn't turn a single soldier over to the regime - we just talked to them and called their families to come pick them up. The ones who wanted to join the FSA, we let them go to Turkey". Heval Amer points out that when the regime troops left, "we didn't let them take their weapons. So they left behind many, even heavy weapons". Because the liberation was bloodless, Hisen recalled, "people said the regime had turned the weapons over to us. But it's a lie".'
What an idyllic scene. One supposes that the lack of bloodshed had something to do with the fact that Assad never directed his military to shoot Kurds protesting against his dictatorship. Oh, I just remembered. They never were involved with the protests. They were too busy figuring out ways to implement Murray Bookchin's utopian socialist schemas.
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