TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC OPINION THE BOURGEOIS MEDIA WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SMEAR OUR INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE AND DEATH FAST ACTION WITH LIES AND DISTORTIONS IN THE NEWS As is known, we DHKP-C, TKP(ML) and TKIP revolutionary prisoners, to repel the attacks by the state aimed at introducing the "F" Type isolation cell prisons, went on an Indefinite Hunger Strike which has been in progress since October 20, 2000. Since the start of our action, the fascist state has resorted to every kind of method and means, striving desperately to obscure our action or smear it. They have recourse to unbelievable lies and demagogy. In order to carry out a provocation against our Indefinite Hunger Strike action and prepare the ground for attacks on the prisons, the fascist state had a section of the mafia gangs it nurtures carry out "incidents" in the prisons, firstly at Adana Kurkculer and then at Istanbul Bayrampasa, taking guards hostage and claiming that this was in support of demands for an amnesty. In almost all their news reports, the bourgeois media have engaged in lies and distortions to give the impression that the Indefinite Hunger Strike is being carried out to demand an amnesty. By means of such news and statements, the fascist state is obviously aiming to smear our action. But they will not succeed. No lies and demagogy will be able to obscure our action. Because all public opinion knows that never and nowhere have revolutionary prisoners sought an amnesty or refused to resist. Nor is there anything like that in any of the demands we are putting forward now. We revolutionary prisoners have never wanted an amnesty. It is those who are guilty who have need of an amnesty. And the guilty ones are those who have massacred revolutionaries and the people and practised torture - in other words, the fascist state and its henchmen. We had explained the aims and demands of our general resistance to public opinion and to the press. But once again we are taking the opportunity to put forward our demands. OUR DEMANDS: 1 - The "F" Type prisons must be closed. 2 - The anti-terror law (Article 3713) must be abolished, along with all its consequences. 3 - The protocol signed by the Justice, Interior and Health Ministries and known as the "tripartite protocol" must be abolished. 4 - The State Security Courts must be abolished, along with all the provisions for which they are responsible. 5 - Prisons must be periodically checked by delegations of lawyers, doctors, relatives of prisoners, representatives of non-governmental organisations and the Union of Prison Staff. 6 - Those who are responsible for massacring and wounding dozens of our friends in Buca, Umraniye, Diyarbakir, Ulucanlar and Burdur must be judged and punished quickly and in a way accessible to the public. 7 - All our friends who have suffered from permanent illness, whose health problems have continued since the 1996 Death Fast, who were injured during state operations and denied medical treatment, must be immediately released. 8 - Those who tortured us during detention must be dismissed from their jobs and must be judged and punished quickly and in a manner accessible to the public. 9 - All anti-democratic laws against the struggle of the peoples for freedom and democracy must be abolished, and the oppression of the Kurdish nation and the other national minorities must be ended. Our demands are very open and clear. We warn the bourgeois media. Do not try to confuse the people's minds with deceitful and false news, do not be the accomplices of this state which has been well proven to be the mastermind behind torture and massacres, and which is adding the cell-type prisons to its list of crimes. Write the truth, broadcast the truth. No lies or demagogy can obscure our action!. We have not gone into the cells and will not go into the cells!. Long live our General Resistance!. October 27, 2000 DHKP-C, TKP(ML) and TKIP Prisoners _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
