Send your endorsements to willy <[email protected]> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: willy <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:34 PM Subject: SIGN-ON - condemn the attack on Kurdish people by extremely high toxic and lethal chemical weapons To: Anivar Aravind <[email protected]>
Dear friends We are disturbed by the usage of extremely high toxic and lethal chemical weapons against the oppressed Kurdish people by Turkish government. On 22 October 2011, Turkish warplanes killed the 36 freedom fighters by chemical weapons in Guze Reshe and Gunde Pire areas of Chele district. More news at: Use of chemical weapons by Turkish army confirmed<http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1750-use-of-chemical-weapons-by-turkish-army-confirmed> Berlin: Press conference, criminal complaint against Turkish premier<http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1749-berlin-press-conference-criminal-complaint-against-turkish-premier-> <http://www.opcw.org/about-opcw/technical-secretariat/director-general/> Chemical Weapons Convention<http://www.opcw.org/about-opcw/technical-secretariat/director-general/> Please sign the below petition by Tuesday 8th evening and email me with details (organisation name and address) to be handed over to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for urgent intervention. In Solidarity Willy The High Commissioner for Human Rights Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais Wilson, 52 rue des Pâquis CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland. We are shocked that Turkey has been shamelessly violating its own laws and conventions by deploying extremely high toxic and lethal chemical weapons against the oppressed Kurdish people. Since 2009, there is enough evidence to hold Turkey guilty of gross human rights violations. On 22 October 2011, Turkish warplanes killed 36 Kurdish freedom fighters by chemical weapons in Guze Reshe and Gunde Pire areas of Chele district. Their bodies at Malatya Forensic Medicine Institution bear testimony of their brutal murder in these attacks using napalm bombs and chemical weapons. The burnt faces and the mutilated bodies seen in the photographs of the victims could not be caused by ordinary weapons. The ongoing war against the liberation struggle of the Kurdish people has led to many thousands of casualties, but the use of chemical weapons is outrageous. German experts have confirmed the authenticity of photographs that purport to show Kurdish activists killed by chemical weapons in September 2009. The evidence and campaigns have not moved the Turkish government even an inch despite demands of German politicians and human rights groups for an investigation. The full extent of the lasting damage suffered by the Kurdish people as a result of the chemical weapons attack is yet unknown and needs international investigation. Turkish government has been consistently using the terrorism card against the Kurdish activists, despite the revolutionary Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) signing the Geneva Convention in 1995. There is a clear violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (otherwise known as the Chemical Weapons Convention) signed and ratified by Turkey in 1997. The Chemical Weapons Convention is a multilateral treaty to ban an entire category of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and to provide for the international verification of the destruction of these weapons. Furthermore, it is a disarmament treaty negotiated within an entirely multilateral framework, leading to increased transparency and its application equally to all States Parties. The Convention was also negotiated with the active participation of the global chemical industry, thus ensuring industry’s ongoing cooperation with the CWC’s industrial verification regime. The Convention mandates the inspection of industrial facilities to ensure that toxic chemicals are used exclusively for purposes not prohibited by the Convention. It is ironic that the convention (OPCW) is headed by Director-General Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, who has represented Turkey earlier in the UN and NATO. Turkey has been committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and massacres against the Kurdish people, while the conscience of the international community has remained shamefully silent and unable to take any decision to halt this aggression and dangerous crimes. Turkey remains undeterred in its dual-pronged war to impose a complete siege of Kurdish areas by chemical weapon attacks as well as illegal arrests of Members of Parliament and civil society leaders. As human rights and democratic organisations, we urge you to urgently initiate action to halt the crushing of human rights and democracy by Turkish government. We urge your office to: - depute a team of experts to investigate the chemical weapon attack on Kurdish people. - initiate proceedings and dismiss OPCW Director-General Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü. Signed by: CENÎ - Kurdish Women's Office for Peace Corneliusstrasse 125, D- 40215 Düsseldorf, Germany INSAF – Indian Social Action Forum A124/6 Katwaria Sarai, New Delhi 110016, India MRAP- The Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples 43 Boulevard Magenta - 75010 Paris, France NAPM – National Alliance of People's Movements New Delhi, India. & others to be added. -- RESIST globalisation COMBAT communalism DEFEND democracy http://www.insafindia.org -- "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
