> >05-17-2000 > >APPEAL! > >Revolutionaries, democrats, progressives and oppressed and exploited >peoples of the world! > >A struggle has been taking place in Turkey between revolutionaries and >fascism for years. Despite defeats, treason and the loss of leading >cadres, losses were converted into gains, both friends and enemies have >witnessed new victories of ours during periods when it was said "we can >never stand up again" and "we are finished". No matter where we are, in >the mountains, in cities or in prisons... our struggle has continued >uninterrupted up to the present. It was the enemy who always felt >powerless and the revolutionaries whose morale was strong. > >Prisons have a special place in the history of Anatolian liberation. > >Prisons are a front in the centuries-long war between the oppressors and >the oppressed. On the one hand they were tools for silencing the social >opposition, on the other, they were centres of resistance. > >The revolutionary prisoners who inherited the tradition of resistance from >Mahir Cayan, Ulas Bardakci and Huseyin Cevahir, created the idea of Free >Captivity through hunger strikes and Death Fasts in 1984 under the >conditions of the military junta. > >The Free Captives advanced the struggle in prisons during the resistances >in Buca (1995) and Umraniye (1996) and went onto the offensive, making the >enemy retreat in panic. > >With the Death Fast resistance in 1996, the struggle in prisons grew >massively and the establishment of the central organisation of prisoners >(CMK) followed it. > >Free Captives did not limit themselves only to the struggle in prisons: >by showing the necessary sensitivity towards developments both in our >country and the world, they always lived outside the four walls. These >characteristics of the captives make them FREE in prisons. They made it >their own business wherever imperialism launched an attack targeting the >peoples of the world, and they also felt the sorrow people felt as a >result of tyranny. > >Therefore it is not a coincidence that the oligarchy targets the >revolutionary prisoners. They know that when the revolutionary >prisoners are silenced, the rest of the people can be silenced too. This >is why they try everything they can. By using their own media, or >using the journalists who sold their honour, or traitors, they target the >prisoners with demogogy of "they turned prisons into their bases", "we >have no control in prisons", "the illegal organisations are directed from >the prisons", etc. If this does not work, they make use of provocations >and plots. Again, if these tactics do not work, they massacre prisoners >one by one, in threes, in fours, in tens... > >By using the opportunity presented by the surrender of the Kurdish >nationalists in accordance with the imperialist plan, the oligarchy tried >to raise their morale and massacred 10 revolutionaries in Ankara Ulucanlar >prison on September 26th, 1999. But the response of the prisoners was "we >will die but we will not surrender" and they welcomed death with dancing >and singing marches. Once again the oligarchy was in despair. > >The state is preparing to attack again. This time the name of the >offensive is 'cell-type prisons'. They want them not to have any contact >with the rest of the world, to forget their humanity, to forget how to >speak, to deprive them of hope, and so they want to throw them into cells. > >In order to be able to put cell-type prisons into practice, the state is >trying to make them look like 'luxury accommodation', and those who claim >that they are democrats are also taking part in this by supporting it. >IT IS A LIE. Cells are tools for killing slowly, cells are for inflicting >torture on a massive scale. They are for torturing thousands of prisoners >for days and years. > >They mean to condemn the prisoners to death by torture. They are for >making death appear 'natural'. > >They are mainly used in the USA and the imperialist European countries >who are proud of their "democracies" and "their respect for human rights" >(!) They aim to convert prisoners into robots who do not think and feel. > >To support cell-type prisons means to support torture. To oppose the cells >means to oppose torture. > >Everyone who calls him or herself revolutionary, democratic, progressive, >human and leading a dignified life, must oppose torture and must oppose the >cell-type prisons. > >WE ARE CALLING UPON OUR FRIENDS ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO BELIEVE IN >INTERNATIONALISM AND THE FRATERNITY OF THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, TO BE >SENSITIVE TOWARDS FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS AND SHOW THEIR REVOLUTIONARY >SOLIDARITY BY MAKING PUBLIC THIS MATTER WHEREVER THEY ARE. > >THE REVOLUTIONARY CAPTIVES CANNOT BE MADE TO SURRENDER! > >THE REVOLUTIONARY CAPTIVES ARE OUR HONOUR! > >DHKC > >DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI > >BRUSSELS INFORMATION BUREAU > > __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
