>From: dhkcbureau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] s: > > >Date: December 23, 2000 Statement: 136 > >Those who are uttering victory chants over our dead bodies are rejoicing in >vain >YOU ARE NOT THE ONES WHO HAVE FINISHED ANYONE OR CAN DEFEAT ANYONE! > >The authorities are celebrating over our dead bodies. Before the eyes of the >entire world, our country has witnessed one of the most comprehensive >attacks in its history. We are replying to this attack with one of the >biggest acts of resistance in our history. Thousands of revolutionary >prisoners and every single one of our comrades in the wrote pages in the >history books on December 19. Hundreds wrote their heroic names in the >legend of the December 19 resistance. > >Tens of thousands of soldiers and police, equipped with heavy weaponry as >though they were launching a military operation against the beaches of >Cyprus, killed, threw people in cells but did not make people surrender. >Victory is ours from this day forward. With something like 30 martyrs, >hundreds wounded and on the 65th day of hunger, we are continuing our march >towards death and victory, with hundreds more resisting the murderous attack >by starting hunger strikes and Death Fasts. > >The massacre was not just directed at the prisoners but at the whole people. > >The resistance which began on October 20 as an Indefinite Hunger Strike and >was converted into a Death Fast followed all the classical patterns since >that time that are characteristic of such actions. > >The authorities, who do everything on the orders of the imperialist >monopolies, who take on new roles in the Middle East, Balkans and Caucasus >in the name of imperialism, want to create an environment in which the >imperialists and monopolies can easily engage in plunder, and this cannot be >done without defeating the opposition forces. The opposition which is part >of the system was not a problem for them, in the final analysis. > >So it was the revolutionary and democratic opposition which had to be >annihilated. The prisons were always a priority target for having a special >place in the material and moral conception of our revolutionary struggle. >The prisoners from our front gave the appropriate response to this attack. >The resistance was started on October 20, the announcement of the Death Fast >by 100 Free Captives on November 19 marked a new escalation in the >resistance. In connection with this we saw the democratic opposition grow >step by step. This was the point at which the plans of the imperialists and >the oligarchy came to nothing. The resistance had spread beyond being a >prison resistance, and people were starting to say "the system is >disintegrating". The oligarchy, to get back the initiative, prepared for a >massacre and began to play games about intervening. They tried to create >conditions for this with propaganda about "pressure from organisations". >At this point, from trade union confederations to legal political parties, >various democratic associations said "Quit," not to the authorities but to >the revolutionaries, and they tried to create "pressure from public opinion" >so the situation was such that the authorities could intervene. >In this way the authorities found the circumstances needed to carry out an >intervention and massacre. > >They saved the day for themselves today, but tomorrow belongs to those who >have resisted. On December 19 the authorities went over to the attack and >carried out the most comprehensive prison operation in the history of the >Republic of Turkey. The state behaved with insane boldness in massacring >hundreds of prisoners. We were up against a government that can run nothing >and has no authority anywhere but wants to prove itself by carrying out a >slaughter. It burned, destroyed and killed. > >The authorities showed their true face. However, they showed that they can >conduct bans, repressions, slaughter and violence. They tore down and burned >their own prisons, saying, "I made them surrender, I conquered." >Is this anything other than an image of powerlessness? What could be simpler >than slaughtering human beings who were already behind the four walls of >prisons? The authorities are shouting their victory chants. True, if >destroying their own prisons is a victory, they won a victory. > >True, if slaughtering dozens of prisoners behind prison walls is a victory, >they won a major victory. But this is not a victory that any government can >profit from. Today they saved themselves, tomorrow they will lose. >The revolutionaries were right. Today everyone is admitting that the >revolutionaries turned out to be right. They were right. Because they >recognise this government for what it is. From life, they recognise those >who have worked to organise the people's fight for liberation. They know >that in this country there is fascism, both secret and open. Various mass >organisations, trade unions, chambers and intellectual circles have erred or >simply been deceived into not recognising this reality, or despite knowing >that this is the truth, they have worked to protect the status quo. >Everyone who has lived through the events of October 20 to the present, day >by day, hour by hour, has been able to scrutinise them. >The authorities are working to deceive public opinion. They are trying to >deceive by a policy of saying, "Look at the good intentions of the state." >Closing their ears to all warnings, those who told the hunger strikers to >"quit" were being used. > >The prisoners from the point of view of ideology and politics, are clear and >correct. Their strength and their rightness come from this. >Those who said "Quit", still cannot stand up straight in the face of their >own bourgeoisie. This is not democracy or revolutionism. They must think >about how they were made use of and how they came to such a pass. And they >must take a stand. It was not just the prisoners, not just the >revolutionaries who were repressed, but human rights associations, >intellectuals, even doctors whom they tried to silence; through the >terrorism of arrests they sought to deny the "right to protest", and today >they want to eliminate all the democratic forces, so it is time for those >who are for democracy, rights and freedoms and the right to life to stand on >their feet and be counted. > >Everyone must stop and think: we lay down to die for our beliefs, we were >slaughtered for the sake of our right to resist. Our prisoners also reckoned >with the possibility that there might be an intervention. They resolutely >put their lives on the line, saying "If you have courage, then come on." In >a regime where those responsible for prisoners' lives murder them and it is >obvious to the whole world that this is a regime that does not keep its >word, how can a prisoner seek what is right? By laying down to die. >It was necessary to put our lives forward for the sake of our thoughts, for >the sake of living. The authorities say no, you have no right to resist. >Those who have been developing philosophies about death are running away >from this truth. > >Those who say, "Death is not a matter of politics," must think about this: >why is this a country in which such an act of resistance is possible? They >must ask themselves: when and how did this turn into a country where people >die and kill like that? > >Did we kill, did we make executions a daily event in this country? Without >examining this aspect, you cannot think realistically. >While dying, we are also resisting the oligarchy's ideology and culture. The >type of person the system wants will not be able to discuss anything, will >not question anything, will not read, will be ignorant about the world, will >resist nothing, and will say nothing about freedom and what is right. >Society will be reduced to nothing more than a magazine colour supplement. >The talk shows are running their programmes over our dead bodies. But our >deaths and our resistance are also striking the greatest blow at this >culture. We are shaking the minds of those who were narrow-minded, those who >used not to ask any questions. We are making them think and making them >start to ask questions. > >We say we are dying for the country, for the people, for democracy, for >honour and freedom. A government has come which has condemned 70 million >people to poverty, turned the country into a lake of blood and does not even >heed those who cry out from on top of the ruins. This is a regime which has >placed itself under the arbitration of the IMF, and which even obtained its >designs for prisons from the USA. > >It is the revolutionaries who do not accept this. The revolutionaries who >struggle against this. Those who say "do not die" are those who have >surrendered to this tableau of dependence, poverty and tyranny, and they >also want us to surrender like they have. > >The defenders of the 'F' Type prisons and those who defended their own work >to bring about the 'F' Type prisons are responsible for burning, riddling >our dead bodies with bullets and tearing them apart. The people that defend >the 'F' Types are responsible for all the torture, murder and harassment >that is happening in the 'F' Type prisons right now. > >With this murderous attack, the prisoners were tortured, killed, then the >survivors brought to the 'F' Types and tortured again. The hair of the >prisoners was shaved. In the cells they were not given clothes or any >belongings. On December 22, during the visit by lawyers, they only had a >sheet to cover themselves. > >The heating system of the prison was not switched on. Amid enormous >harassment, they are kept hungry, thirsty and naked. The defenders of the 'F >' Types - come and see how contemporary, modern and humane your prisons are! >See this and say sorry to the people and to the revolutionary prisoners. You >will give a self-criticism or else you will render an account. >You cannot say that yes, we defended the 'F' Types but we did not want >anyone to be killed like that. "The 'F' Types mean a massacre," >"Intervention means a massacre," we said this for months and months before >this happened. You, justice minister, for months you presented the 'F' Types >as being humane. Now show openly what the 'F' Type prisons are really like. >Reveal openly what kind of harassment you engaged in there. Open them so >everyone can see your role as dungeon-keeper, open them so people can see >how persons in isolation cells are resisting. > >These bloody pages, these pages of harassment are yours. But these pages of >resistance are ours. > >You cannot defeat us, you cannot wipe us out. The 'F' Type prisons too will >not make us surrender. You will see. They are saying that "we dispersed >their bases," "we finished them." You could not finish off anything. We will >show you. > >On March 12 and September 12, they said the same things. Still, they are >having to deal with us. In this country, still, there are two main powers - >the state and ourselves. The people who say "we finished them" have no >connection with science and have no information about the country. >"Since 1991." they are continuing to yap and snap at one another like dogs. >In every period that we were in prison, with our ideas and our values, we >continued to exist. Even the September 12 military coup could not prevent >this. We will be everywhere and we will defend our beliefs. > >They said, we dispersed their bases. Every cell will be our headquarters. >They could not finish anything with the 'F' Types. The 'F' Types will also >be a centre of resistance. We will continue our education, we will continue >to be organised. The basis of the 'F' policy is to turn the revolutionaries >into persons without an organisation and "rehabilitate" them into the kind >of people who defend the Susurluk state. > >They cannot succeed in this. > >The defenders of the 'F' Types will only find a place in history as >perpetrators of massacres. > >We are fighting an enemy who is without ethics and morals. This unethical >enemy seeks to use the media to transmit this lack of ethics to the people. >The media is giving disinformation for the state and is transmitting >information without value. Since the first days that Death Fast started, >they engaged in a great deal of speculation, we called them many times, we >said, "Go and speak with the prisoners," but they did not, because they >feared to confront reality. We can discuss with everyone what is "pressure >from organisations", what "death" is, what the relations of life and death >are. Those whose own ideas are eclectic and stolen from all over the place >cannot give advice to our prisoners. Stop engaging in speculation in your >newspaper headlines, stop slandering the prisoners, give ear to the >prisoners who are in the cells and the hospitals still continuing the Death >Fast. If you have any honour, if you have any objectivity at all, you have >to show society the reality. Then your readers can make decisions. You love >to say things like, "Our readers will decide." > >The media is actually in a rush to try to prove that the massacre was >justified. It is a massive slandering machine. Everything is in a rush, >everything is screaming, they are trying to hide the fact that the >government cannot rule. > >Every one of our comrades who was massacred or died in the Death Fast or >will die in the coming days was killed by the government and the government' >s collaborators. The government rushes to say, "I didn't kill, they burned >themselves," but the witnesses to this massacre are still alive. Nobody can >cover up this massacre. They cannot do it. It is the government that is >responsible for every death. Our prisoners' organisation had declared on >December 17 that "Every kind of attack on the Death Fast resisters WILL TURN >OUR BODIES INTO TORCHES OF REVOLUTION, WHEREVER WE ARE!" With this aim in >mind, during the attacks to massacre them, some comrades responded by indeed >turning their own bodies into torches. When we receive all the information, >we will clarify what actually happened in this regard. At this point the >oligarchy's attitude to carrying out a massacre is becoming more and more >clear - despite the declaration by our prisoners, they still launched their >attack. The state used this declaration to cover up their own massacre >plans. That is why they massacred many of our comrades by burning them. It >is certain that six women prisoners were burned alive in Bayrampasa Prison. >In Umraniye, our comrade Ahmet Ibili turned his body into a torch against >the murderers, and even then they shot him dead. > >The tyranny could not find fear in our eyes. The Free Prisoners could not be >made to surrender. For the last two days the world's television watched the >massacre, as our comrades continued to shout our slogans against the >hundreds and hundreds of torturers and murderers. They are shouting out >their resistance during an atmosphere of tyranny. History records all this. >They are releasing in the media all these things in order to intimidate the >people, but these tactics are counter-productive. It will rebound on them! >Every second or centimetre of the attacks met with resistance. There is a >heroism and courage that is taking a weapon from the hands of a government >that can only succeed by killing. Neither the Justice Minister, nor the >intelligentsia which has no idea about real life because they are cowards >who have no real aim in their life can comprehend this heroism. At the end >of the day the Justice Minister had to say that if the prisoners used this >energy and determination for the homeland, it would be much better. We say >to him, do not worry - our comrade's energy and beliefs are already used for >the benefit of our people. If in the midst of this poverty and tyranny, >there is still hope and resistance, this is because of their beliefs and >energy, efforts and courage. Despite dozens of martyrs, they showed that the >government cannot do everything they want. Because of their ideological >superiority and power of their beliefs, they resisted. They showed everybody >the reality of Turkey in the manner of their deaths. In dying, they educated >everyone in how to win rights and freedoms in the struggle for democracy. >The people who are trying to give "our young people in the prisons" >condescending advice must understand. The prisoners are ideologically and >culturally the most experienced section of people in the country. They are >not "young people in prisons, or children", but are those who want power. >Why are they so determined? This is the answer! Because they are persons in >a movement whose purpose is to gain power. This is why they are so >determined and serious. They are not playing around. They are not on an >adventure. They are fighting the government to become the government. They >are fighting to win democracy, justice and law for this country. The Free >Prisoners are our honour, our future and our tomorrow. They are the managers >of the country's future. The people who do not have any single opportunity >behind four walls have nonetheless left the oligarchy in a very poor >condition. Their power, creativity and determination cannot be disputed. >This belief and determination will direct this country. > >The resistance will carry on as the resistance of democratic powers, but >under worse conditions. The authorities showed that they are not rescuers, >but murderers. Today, they admitted that they want to make the democratic >opposition surrender. It came out that the massacre was not to "save" lives. >About 30 prisoners were massacred by their "rescuers". The Death Fast also >continues. Who did you save? You managed to massacre but saved nobody. >If somebody believes in the comedy the authorities are playing, they have a >mental problem, or they are collaborators who believe everything they are >told in the most cowardly fashion. After two days everybody understood that >the demagogy of "saving" them and "returning them to life" was merely meant >to cushion what they were actually doing. They attacked the Death Fast >because, as the Justice Minister said, this resistance was growing greater >and greater as part of a hotbed of the struggle for democracy. They attacked >the Death Fast because, as the gendarme commander said, the 'F' Types would >remove terror from the agenda of the country. They are continuing tyrannical >attacks outside the prisons to make democratic organisations surrender. >After the December 19 resistance, we are entering a period that will be >harder than the December 19 resistance itself. It means we will pay a higher >price. The resistance is carrying on in new areas and new conditions. The >government wants to put an end to the struggle of the democratic opposition >and the struggle for rights and freedoms by means of the December 19 >massacre and the opening of the 'F' Type prisons. Right now the resistance >mainly comes at this point. The content of the resistance is its conversion >into the resistance of all sections more than was the case previously, the >resistance of those who live in this country and demand rights, liberties >and freedoms. > >The dividing line between those who support the state or not, support >fascism or not, will be more clear. > >Our resistance that started on October 20 and ended on December 22 gave >dozens of martyrs and is continuing in the cells, is a world-wide >resistance. > >Lies and censorship, cells and forced feeding will be destroyed by the power >of the Death Fast resistance. Everybody will start to speak of the Death >Fast action again, and we will emerge from the struggle with victory. > >WE WILL SMASH TYRANNY INTO THE GROUND WITH THE POWER OF OUR BELIEFS! >THE GOVERNMENT AND ALL ITS COLLABORATORS WILL RENDER AN ACCOUNT FOR THEIR >MASSACRE! > >DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI >(REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT) > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for geopolitics. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
