[Ozgurluk.Org] THE UN GIVE WAY TO TURKISH MAFIA PRESSUR
From: Press Agency Ozgurluk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "[Ozgurluk.Org]" THE UN GIVE WAY TO TURKISH MAFIA PRESSUR We translated this because we did not see this message in any other paper. THE UN GIVE WAY TO TURKISH MAFIA PRESSURE AMSTERDAM The United Nations, after political pressure, stopped an investigation into the ties between Turkish terrorism and organised crime. "The political sensitivities are to great that even the writing of a confidential report would cause diplomatic problems, according the narcotics chief the UN, Pino Arlacchi. He writes this in a letter, of October 16, to the Dutch UN-ambassador in Vienna. Given the circumstances, it is advisable not to write a report at all, he continues. Justice spokesmen in parliament want clarity from the ministers of Foreign Affairs and Justice. An official of the Terrorism Department of the UN was in the Netherlands, at the end of August, also for investigating the Turkish ties with organised crime. In a letter of November 28, from the head of judicial and police co-operation, the department of Foreign Affairs writes to the Dutch experts involved: Thanks for your co-operation. But the investigation was halted. CDA-spokesperson W. van de Camp (Christian- Democrats) says it is unacceptable that a UN-office stops investigating because of fear for diplomatic turbulence. Thats giving in to organised crime. The D66-parliamentarian B. Dittrich (Social-Liberals) speaks of an ostrich- policy and demands clarification from the minister of Foreign Affairs. According to Dittrich, there have been clues earlier that high circles in Turkey were involved in criminal practices and it cannot be that now there is pressure from this circuit to stop such an investigation. The Green-Left delegate F. Halsema wants Foreign Affairs to demand an explanation from the UN and says that stopping the investigation cannot be accepted like that. Also the PvdA-delegate E. Kalsbeek (Social-Democrats) assumes that the minister will come with an explanation for the Chamber, although she does not have the illusion that he will do so in public. According the VVD-spokesperson J. Niederer (Conservative Liberals), such an UN-investigation can only be stopped if Turkey shows that aspects of state security are involved. During a lecture in Washington, in the autumn, the Dutch criminologist F. Bovenkerk showed once again how close elements of the Turkish state are linked with organised crime. Other investigators share this view, as was shown in a recent paper, published by the Department of Justice. The directorate of the UN-Drug Office, which last week criticised the Dutch policy of tolerance, was not available for comments. Insiders point to the fact that investigations into ties between the Turkish Mafia organisations and the Grey Wolves meet with great resistance usually. Investigations which stumble upon such ties are frequently stopped because of sensitivities. The recent investigation of the prosecution and the police in Amsterdam, involving a raid in a mosque, is therefore called courageous by them, and very remarkable. The investigating judge last night ruled that eleven of the original 23 detainees in this case will remain in custody. The investigation is now also spreading to possible fraud with subsidies by Turkish institutions and attempts by criminals to in infiltrate mosque boards. Kurt van Es and Jos Verlaan Het Parool. December 8, 2000 ___ 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] ___
World 'progress' under US brutality. Cuba
from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: World 'progress' under US brutality. Cuba (My Xmas present to 'christian' Washington -JC) At last, we know that the US is NOT a democracy. Its Black/poor population lives in fear or in jail mainly for smoking marijuana but either way they are abused and deliberately forced away from the polling stations and from those jobs that robots can do My earliest teenage memories of US music came from the African wonderfully talented Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Billie Halliday, Ellington, Count Basie blues and Dixieland jazz. Now we have re-made videos of them from the 1920's, in which the scene shows their brothers-sisters and the KKK white-slave cotton bosses and the popularity of this music. Now we know how and why US presidents are unable to show any concern for black labor, its education and health care. The KKK is still powerful, as are extreme-right, mafia- corrupted politicians.The blacks can eat in jail or the Marine corps. It is possible that US hospitals/doctors can charge up to $50,000 for an operation, just because the surgeon is 'very talented' and rarely makes a mistake. Did you know that in Cuba no-one pays for health and education, the 118 specialist professors can do the same operations and teach at one of 21 Medical Universities on the island. Next years's budget for educational and health programs, retirement benefits and social assistance will cost $6billion (Six!). The hospitals and schools maintenance is included in 'social assistance. But here there are no trillionaires, billionaires, or even moderately rich people like millionaires.And there is no advertising, no corrupted greedy politicians, no starvation, no waste -the sugar cane produces sugar, paper -but also 52 other value-added assets. On the other hand, the intelligence-limited USA, when thinking of Cuba, can only think of murder and deliberate withholding of a few food products, and special medical drugs. Is that envy on a huge scale? Perhaps, if it were a sign of remorse, all US corporation CEO's based at home or in foreign lands should jump out the top windows, as they did in 1929, but weighed down this time by all their fortunes melted into gold to make sure they stay down? Shakur says "the whole cultural imperialism that is going on today where people whether they're in Senegal, South Africa, Indonesia, are looking at this USA vision of the world that is totally distorted, totally unreal, that really diminishes and minimalises the cultural values and wisdom of people all over the world, and sells this kind of McDonald-ized vision of the world that everybody is supposed to aspire to. British PM, Tony Blair dropped a bombshell in Warsaw by announcing that Europe should have its own Rapid Reaction Force (RRF). The great lover of American brutality and its nuclear umbrella that protects Europe (from what?)-Thatcher the Iron Lady -was aghast at his plans to allot 12,500 British troops for that force. "We are in a new era. Today we have to deal with those problems we inherited from that time -the boom and bust economics, the social division, the chronic under-investment in our public services. A sensible, modern attitude to Europe is what we need." On BBC radio he is quoted as clarifying words "more money for social justice -education and better health for the people. This of course is what Fidel Castro's people are trying in vain to help all nations to understand, that people cared for and educated do not need armaments. The Americans are furious of course. The US Pentagon, CIA, corporations and politicians have laid out plans for all the 200 or so foreign nations. Peace, protection of the environment, the air, the rivers, forests, birds, insects and seas have no place in their sordid, greed-drunken, criminal terrorist thoughts and actions. It seems to me that Europe has begun to realise what a dreadful waste of resources and people NATO and the other US-led, probably- corrupted leaders, brought to Europe via the Balkans. Albania and Bulgaria had socialist leaders until the money bags arrived. Some EU leaders have been found out with up to $500 million in private banks -goodness knows how much they have in Swiss banks and Caymen islands. German and Turkey presidents have a lot to answer for, but so has Israel, Chile, Peru, Kazakstan, Argentina, Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador and many others. Turkey will be admitted to NATO because the US needs them there, not so much for their good looks, but because the Kurdish section in Turkey will have to be totally genocided in case they start to bomb the chosen US oil pipeline passing through Moslem Turkey from Central Asia, Caspian area. The US allows them to have NO human rights. Germany's Minister Fischer should have known better about US General Savimbi's situation in Angola, not to have promised German loans as soon as Angola stops the war. Then, with no knowledge of Africa and its recent history, he goes off to
DHKC Statement: 135
- Original Message - From: STEVE KACZYNSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 3:33 PM Subject: [MLL]DHKC Statement: 135 December 20, 2000 Statement: 135 THEY BURNED US ALIVE: THESE WORDS ARE THOSE OF A SERIOUSLY WOUNDED WOMAN PRISONER THEY REVEAL THE TRUE FACE OF THE AUTHORITIES. THE AUTHORITIES ARE LYING THEY MUST CONFESS TO THE MASSACRE THAT THEY HAVE COMMITTED IN BAYRAMPASA AND ALL THE OTHER PRISONS A massacre on a scale that even the word savage does not suffice to describe has been committed before the eyes of the entire world. The operation aimed at committing a massacre is still in progress. Moreover, a true account of the number of dead revolutionaries has not been given. To conceal its crime, the state is continuing to tell lies. THEY BURNED US ALIVE: REVELATIONS ON THE INCENDIARY DEVICES AT BAYRAMPASA All the world has heard it. These were the words clearly uttered by a woman prisoner being transported from Bayrampasa Prison to a hospital in Istanbul, her face completely ravaged by burns, revealed the true face of the authorities; THEY BURNED US ALIVE. These are not the words of those who have escaped from the gas chambers or the crematoria of Nazi Germany, but were stated by a woman prisoner who was badly injured following a murderous attack with an incendiary device in Bayrampasa Prison, situated right in the middle of the biggest city in Turkey. In Bayrampasa but also in all the prisons, assault troops and robocops have killed detainees by hurling incendiary devices into their dormitories. To prepare the ground for this massacre, the authorities made great play of the lie that the prisoners had opened fire with a Kalashnikov. And with lie after lie they have succeeded in covering up a massacre. Now, everything is clear. The authorities are lying. They are trying to cover up these massacres. But how long can they keep it up? TELL THE TRUTH The authorities must explain how many prisoners have been killed by burning or wounded mortally, whether by fire, bullets or torture, and in what prisons. Up to the present, all they have told is lies. The true number of prisoners killed is at least twice the figure quoted officially. But whatever the case, the lies and censorship imposed on the media cannot last forever. Besides, the truth has already exploded in your faces. In fact, this prisoner said THEY BURNED US ALIVE. THEY COULD DESTROY NOTHING: THE DEATH FAST CONTINUES They thought they could put an end to the resistance with massacres, burning, and attacking with bombs the prisoners who were already on their death-beds and by forcibly removing them from their wards. They are wrong. Henceforth, THE RESISTANCE GOES ON IN THE CELLS OF SINCAN AND EDIRNE. THE DEATH FAST CONTINUES THE OPERATION WHICH CLAIMED TO BE ABOUT RETURN TO LIFE IS REALLY AN OPERATION ABOUT MASSACRES AND VENGEANCE The authorities have claimed to have carried out an operation to return to life and to have extended a tender hand. Their tender hand extended towards the dormitories was full of incendiary devices. For hours they attacked dormitory C-14 in Bayrampasa with incendiary devices, as a result of which prisoners perished in the flames. Such incendiary devices were used in all the prisons. The authorities have carried out a massacre. Just what lives did they save with the gunshots and incendiary devices they used at Bayrampasa and the other prisons? Dozens of prisoners were killed during this operation to return to life. The operation was really about vengeance. They went in to kill and that is just what they did. The authorities have taken reprisals against the struggle for justice and freedom. WE CALL ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS TO LISTEN TO THOSE WHO WITNESSED A MASSACRE. Those who witnessed the massacre were transferred, wounded, to hospitals and isolation cells. Go see the witnesses. Listen to them. See them, hear them to learn what kind of country we live in, to comprehend why the struggle for rights and freedom is conducted with so many sacrifices and at such a cost in lives. Bear witness to the true face of the authorities. And bear witness to the entire world. TELL THE TRUTH TO THE ENTIRE WORLD! DESPITE THE MASSACRE, THE RESISTANCE CONTINUES! WE APPEAL TO ALL DECENT AND HONOURABLE PEOPLE TO CONDEMN THIS MASSACRE AND SUPPORT THE RESISTANCE OF THE PRISONERS. DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI (REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLES LIBERATION FRONT) Phone and fax your messages to DEMAND THE TRUTH! Republic of Turkey Prime Ministers Office: Tel 0090 312 417 0476, Fax 0090 312 434 2110 Republic of Turkey Justice Ministry: Fax :0090 312 414 6257 Republic of Turkey Interior Ministry: Tel: 0090 312 425 4080, Fax: 0090 312 418 7696 _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at
Turkish prison strike continues
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 04:43:58 +0100 From: Press Agency Ozgurluk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunday, 24 December, 2000, 23:34 GMT Turkish prison strike continues Anti-prison reform protesters clashed with the police The Turkish Government says more than 350 prison inmates are still refusing food, five days after the security forces launched raids on jails across the country to end the protest. Troops regained control on Friday of the last of 20 prisons, leaving a total of 26 prisoners and two police officers dead. The inmates want to stop transfers to new maximum security prisons where they say they will exposed to attacks by guards, who are often accused of committing abuses. Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk warned that the government would not back down from the transfer plans. Dead end Mr Turk said that following the storming of the jails, 1,005 prisoners were transferred to three of the new prisons and that nearly 400 had quit their hunger strike. He said the jails had been raided to "rescue the prisoners" - many of whom, he insisted, had been forced to fast by extreme left-wing groups. Mr Turk said that 353 continued their two-month long "death-fast", and that more than 1,600 others were carrying-out a hunger strike of solidarity, taking just minimal amounts of sugar. "Some inmates continue their acts in the trap of fanaticism into which they had fallen," he said. Condemnation The minister urged the strikers to put an end to their protests and to realise that they had reached a dead end. "If their condition deteriorates we will do whatever is necessary for medical intervention," he warned. The European Commission has expressed concern over the crackdown. Turkey's attempt to gain membership of the EU depends on improving its human rights record and democratic institutions. Human rights groups have also condemned the assault. Amnesty International has called for a full and independent inquiry into the raids. -- Press Agency Ozgurluk In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey 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 ___ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for geopolitics. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___
Turkey. DHKC Statement: 136
From: dhkcbureau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] s: Date: December 23, 2000Statement: 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
Korean Central News Agency Dec 24
TODAY'S NEWS (December.24.2000 Juche 89) [CONTENTS] * Commemorations held * Commemorative seminars held abroad * Epic praising feats of Kim Jong Suk created * Papers observe anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election as KPA Supreme Commander * Wreaths laid For Spanish-speaking people * 9 aniversario de eleccion de dirigente kim jong il como comandante supremo de epc Commemorations held Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- An evening gala of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces was held at Jonsung Square on Dec. 23 on the occasion of the 9th anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army. It was attended by Jo Myong Rok, director of the KPA general political department, Kim Yong Chun, chief of the KPA general staff, Kim Il Chol, Minister of the People's Armed Forces, leading officials of the People's Armed Forces, KPA generals, officers and soldiers. The square turned into a veritable sea of soldiers dancing to the tune of such songs as "Glory to the Dear Leader," "Song of Best Wishes," "Song of Three Prides," and "the Guerrilla March," etc, vice marshals and generals of the KPA joined dancers, thus bolstering up the festive atmosphere. A music and dance performance was given by the song and dance ensemble of the Ministry of People's Security at the Ponghwa Art Theatre on the same day on the occasion of the 9th anniversary of his election and the 83rd birth anniversary of the great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk. Commemorative seminars held abroad Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- Seminars were held in different countries from Dec. 10 to 15 to commemorate the 9th anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and the 83rd birth anniversary of the great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk. The seminars were sponsored by the Peruvian Association for the Study of Revolutionary Activities of Comrade Kim Jong Suk, the Peruvian Committee for Supporting the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea, the Association for the Study of Self-reliance of Pakistan, the Egyptian Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea and the Catania branch of the Italian Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea. Present there were prominent figures of political, social and academic circles in those countries, among them Victor Oliva Miguel, secretary general of the revolutionary socialist party of Peru. Akrak Aktar Hamidi, chairman of the Association for the Study of Self-reliance of Pakistan, said that Kim Jong Il is a veteran and seasoned political leader, an outstanding military strategist and iron-willed commander. Amata, chief of the Catania branch of the Italian Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, noted that Kim Jong Il's army-first politics is a lifeline of the Korean people in their struggle for the building of a powerful socialist nation. Teresa Otidiano, chairperson of the Peruvian Association for the Study of Revolutionary Activities of Comrade Kim Jong Suk, said that it is a great pride and glory for the women revolutionaries around the world to deeply study the revolutionary history of Kim Jong Suk, comrade-in-arms intensely loyal to the great leader Kim Il Sung and an anti-Japanese heroine. Her revolutionary feats will shine long with history, she stressed. Epic praising feats of Kim Jong Suk created Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- An epic "the Cause of Kim Jong Suk Will Be Everlasting" (written by Li Pom Su) was published on the occasion of the 83rd birth anniversary of the great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk. Singing of Kim Jong Suk's feats for the building of the army, the epic says that her cause of building the army will shine for all ages. After the liberation of Korea she, true to the idea and line of the army building advanced by the great leader President Kim Il Sung, led officials to build the army in a Korean way, by rooting out flunkeyism and dogmatism, it notes. She was always with arms in her lifetime and was the first to hold aloft the banner of devotedly defending the leader. Learning from her spirit, many devoted guardians have grown up, the epic says. It tells about the motherly love shown by her for soldiers, which is carried forward by the respected marshal Kim Jong Il. The greatest feat she performed for the revolution is that she gave birth to Kim Jong Il, successor to the cause of the Korean revolution. In the crucible of the hard-fought anti-Japanese war she brought up him as a son of guerrillas and commander, it says. Papers observe anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election as KPA Supreme Commander Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- Papers here today editorially observe the 9th anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army. Rodong Sinmun, the organ of
