From: "ezgi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hunger strike solidarity really
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:14:16 +1000
solidarity rally with turkish hunger strikers on 18 August 2 pm, front of
State library
We call on you to show solidarity with the political prisoners in turkey
against cells and masacres The state "saved lives" with 20,000 bombs, over
50,000 gendarmes-police and other kind of security forces by attacking its
own prisons!
Turkey has more than10.000 political prisoners. They are trade unionist,
human rights activists, revolutionary leftist groups, democrats, artists,
writers, Kurdish patriots, Socialists etc.
For the last 280 days the prisoners staging a protest and resistance
against the governments so called "F type" isolation-death cells scheme by
putting their lives at stake by the only meanings of resistance in their
hands: Hunger strike and the "Death fast". So far 60 prisoners and
supporters outside of the prisons died as a result.
On 19 December 2000 government forces attacked the prisons in order to
break the resistance and remove the prisoners to the new F type prisons by
force and called it pathetically "Operation Return to Life" by killing 30
of them and seriously injuring many. The government was hoping to end the
resistance, instead participant numbers increased and the situation has
worsened. Now the greater numbers continuing resistance in the F type
prisons as well as outside the prisons by the family members and the
sympathetic supporters of the prisoners cause.
Their lives in the prisons are in a permanent struggle for minimal human
rights and human dignity, which is denied by the more oppressive new prison
system. Sultan Erdogdu, an insider who's recently released from one of
those prisons told; " They have brought us here beating us all the way,
finally all of us were unconscious. We were affected by poison gas. The
results of this are a terrible burning sensation in our throats and
eyes. >From time to time soldiers come and pound on our cell doors in order
to disturb us. Our only weapon is the DEATH FAST and we will only emerge
from here dead! The health situation of the prisoners is very bad and
everyone is very weak"
Let us not be SILENT. Even the smallest initiative, a little help can be a
light in the isolated life of a prisoner. Lets not abandon them to
solitude. Let us become window from their cells to the outside world....
The Hunger strike began on the 20 November 2000, On the 19th of December
2000 an operation conducted by the government forces in 20 prisons across
the country murdared 30 prisoners, 6 female prisoners were burnt alive.
Following the operation increased numbers are continuing the death fast.
- After that date 25 more prisoners died on the death fast. 60 of them
suffering from amnesia and many already have irreversible physical defects.
- In support of the prisoners 5 TAYAD members lost their lives in the death
fast.
Turkish and Kurdish Human Rights Committee Melbourne
July 31, 2001
195 Sydney Rd Coburg
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info: www.ozgurluk.org
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