Joe,
can you explain me why America, which still allows some of its States to apply death
penalty, should be worried about Ocalan execution in Turkey, a country which seems to
have forgotten human rights long ago?
I'm not able to see any immoral policy from the U.S. point of view...
anyway, in my opinion, Turkey could decide not to kill him (or not to kill him
"officially"...) just to avoid the birth of a martyr, of a myth, which can cause more
dangerous consequences and the U.S. will agree with this policy...
Marta.
joe dees ha scritto:
> Recently, the Kurdish PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was arrested in Italy and
>deported to Turkey for trial. Europe-wide protests followed. The Kurdish population
>has traditionally lived in southwestern Turkey, northern Iraq, northern Syria and
>northwestern Iran, and at 30 million, comprises the largest stateless sthnic group in
>the world. The PKK began its struggle nonviolently, and began violent resistance
>after being targeted by the governments controlling their traditional territory.
>Other leaders who began nonviolent struggle and subsequently resorted to violent
>uprising for possession of their own state include Menachem Begin, Nelson Mandela and
>Yassar Arafat. In another 10 years, had he not been captured, Ocalan may have been
>able to reach a position in the statehood struggle resembling Arafat's, with a likely
>disintegration of Iraq following the eventual end of Saddam Hussein's rule ceding
>them the north and Iran the Shi'ia south. However, with the example of N!
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> son Mandela before them, it is all but certain that Turkey will execute Abdullah
>Ocalan, to forestall any possibility of a repetition. The US might be quite willing
>for such a resolution, considering the diplomatic and domestic difficulties which it
>found itself having to negotiate concommitant with the ascendancy of the other
>mentioned leaders and the desire to avoid such problems in the future; however, if
>such is the case, it is an immoral policy, for the Kurcish people deserve their own
>state no less than the Israelis, the Palestinians, the Zulus and the Xhosas.
> Joe E. Dees
> Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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