>Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >What Happened On August 17 (1999) Was Not A Natural Disaster, > >It Was A Massacre! > >THE STATE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MASSACRE, > >THIS WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN, OTHERS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO FORGET, AND WE >WILL DEMAND A RECKONING! > > >Tens of thousands of our people were killed, tens of thousands were left >handicapped; thousands of our people were buried in mass graves with >bulldozers and annihilated, or exposed to hunger and the open air; for a >year our people have been condemned to live in poverty in tents with nobody >listening to their cries. We feel the sorrow of the victims of the >earthquake who faced to an intensified degree the hunger and poverty, >unemployment and deprivation that already afflicted our peoples. > >Although we might be prisoners behind four walls; our hearts, our >consciousness, everything we possess and everything we do not possess have >been full of their pains, distress, worries and troubles for over a year. In >the year since August 17, the revolutionary anger we felt from the first >moment has grown and today we shout out that: August 17 was not a natural >disaster, it was a massacre. The fact that it is an earthquake zone was not >considered important; seismic and geological analysis was not carried out, >the state and its institutions did not put into effect zoning and >construction plans which were proof against earthquakes, and the capitalists >who produced inadequate materials, the local authorities who took bribes and >the builders who stole materials all bear responsibility. In our >understanding, it is this system which is against the people, which spills >blood, plunders and exploits, and the fascist state which all bear >responsibility for the massacre. On the anniversary of August 17, we share >the pain of our people and express our respect towards those we have lost. > >On the night of August 17, at 0302, in all the prisons we are in, we >prisoners also shouted out slogans to show that WE DID NOT FORGET and WILL >NOT LET OTHERS FORGET. For decades our peoples have been exposed to pain: >trampled upon, exploited, oppressed; in the streets, in the countryside, in >the cities, in the prisons, natural disasters have turned into massacres; >while our people as a whole were in their deepest pain, the TAHKIM >(Arbitration laws: giving unlimited investment opportunity to the foreign >capital) laws were opportunistically ratified in one night as a result of >pressure from the IMF for "reform" of social security; trillions of Turkish >lira collected supposedly for "the earthquake and those affected by it" >flowed into the coffers of the SABANCIs and KOCs. While our wealth is >squandered for the sake of the imperialist gentry, hundreds of thousands >remain hungry and miserable in the midst of snow, winter and uproar; the >fascist state, which is guilty of burning our infants in broad daylight, >continues to commit new crimes every day. > >While the needs and the rights of those of our people affected by the >earthquake count for nothing, millions of dollars have been spent on the >F-Type prisons, 15 billion dollars have been wasted on weapons, and we warn >the fascist state which is seeking in these ways to make our people >surrender that THE CRIMES OF THE ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE HAVE NOT GONE >UNPUNISHED AND WILL NOT REMAIN UNPUNISHED. > >On the anniversary of August 17, in all the prisons we are in, we will >refuse to be counted for a day, in protest at the fascist state and its >practices. THE STATE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MASSACRES, WE WILL DEMAND A >RECKONING! > >August 17, 2000 > >CENTRAL COORDINATION OF PRISONS (CMK) > >AND those prisoners from the DEVRIMCI YOL, THKP-C/MLSPB AND TDP TRIALS in >all the prisons. > >-- >Press Agency Ozgurluk >In Support of the Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey and Kurdistan >http://www.ozgurluk.org >DHKC: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc > _______________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________
