>From: STEVE KACZYNSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: "[Ozgurluk.Org]" IKM Statement On European Complicity In Prison >Massacre >IKM, Hamburg, December 19, 2000 > >TURKEY MASSACRES THE PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE > >THE GOVERNMENTS OF GERMANY AND OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ARE ACCOMPLICES > >Since four this morning, in 20 prisons of Turkey, special police and >military have been attacking the prisoners on hunger strike and the Death >Fast with clubs, guns and grenades. Neither the media, lawyers nor family >members have been permitted to come within a radius of several kilometres of >the prisons. According to our latest available information three prisoners >have been killed by the paramilitary storm troops of the regime. In protest >at the massacre going on around them, some prisoners have poured petrol over >themselves and set it alight. They had announced earlier that they would >take this step in the event of an attack. The exact number of the dead is >not known to us at the moment because the brutal attacks are still going on. >Many of the prisoners have still not been subdued by the murderous special >units of the regime, because these prisoners are defending themselves with >all the weapons they have at their disposal. >After 61 days of the hunger strike/Death Fast (over 40 prisoners were >already in a life-threatening condition) against the introduction of >isolation cell prisons, which make torture through solitary confinement >possible and facilitate prison staff and police use of brutal torture >against individual prisoners, the regime in Turkey has decided that, rather >than grant the demands of the prisoners or at least resume the talks which >had been broken off a few days previously, it would instead murder prisoners >and carry out an indescribable massacre. > >GERMANY AND THE EU ARE ACCOMPLICES IN THIS MASSACRE > >In contrast to 1996 when the authorities in Turkey granted some of the >prisoners’ demands after 12 prisoners died, and thus prevented something >worse happening, the authorities in Turkey have engaged in this barbaric >severity, and one reason is that the EU has made the introduction of >isolation prisons a condition of Turkey’s entry into the EU. Germany, which >gave practical assistance to Turkey in developing and building such prisons, >has practised and still practises “white torture” solitary confinement >(especially at the Stuttgart-Stammheim complex) in particular against >political prisoners, so as to destroy their personal and political identity. >Some years ago a delegation from Turkey went to Stammheim to form an exact >impression of the kind of prison they wanted. It is no coincidence that it >is an SPD government which is making easier the murder of prisoners in >Turkey who oppose solitary confinement. >We protest most strongly against this renewed massacre of the prisoners and >demand that the German government and the human rights commissions of the >German government and EU do everything to halt the massacre that the regime >in Turkey has already begun. They are accomplices in any deaths that result >from this conflict, which could last days or even weeks and whose effects >are also going to be felt in Europe itself. > >LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE OF THE PRISONERS! >THE DEATH FAST RESISTANCE MARTYRS ARE IMMORTAL! > > _______________________________________________________ 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] _______________________________________________________
