>From: dhkc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >September 28, 2000 No: 124 > >THE ULUCANLAR MASSACRE: EXACTLY ONE YEAR HAS GONE BY >THE MURDERERS HAVE NOT BEEN PUNISHED > >WE WILL CONTINUE TO DEMAND A RECKONING > >On September 26, 1999, in Ankara Ulucanlar Prison, TEN REVOLUTIONARY >PRISONERS WERE MURDERED. Dozens of prisoners were tortured to the point >where they could no longer be recognised. Special Teams, robocops, >gendarmes, Cevik Kuvvetleri (Rapid Reaction Forces) attacked them using gas >bombs and long-barrelled firearms. The only weapons our prisoners had to >resist with were their own bodies. The bodies of the revolutionary prisoners >were dismembered by torture. Even the members of parliament who viewed >footage of the effects of torture had to confirm that a massacre had taken >place. It was too much for their stomachs to endure. For days, for months, >the families of prisoners and democratic public opinion reacted by >expressing the demand that the murderers be judged. The authorities, instead >of putting the murderers on trial, have opened court proceedings against >those prisoners who survived the massacre, demanding that prison sentences >of hundreds of years be passed against them. The Susurluk state accepts the >murderers as its own. Nobody has gone to jail for killing ten revolutionary >prisoners. >THERE WAS NO JUSTICE IN THIS LAND. The murderers and torturers can massacre >and torture to their heart's content. For exactly a year, they have tried to >prevent millions of our people from seeing what really happened in the >massacre. They have tried to make people forget the massacre, citing >"reasons of state". All massacres in the country are committed "for reasons >of state". The prisoners' families, our people wanted justice; they wanted >the murderers judged and punished. Instead, for raising the demand, they >themselves were dragged along the ground, beaten with clubs and tortured. In >this land, there is only justice for the Sabancis, the Kocs, the Eczacibasis >(note: major monopolies in Turkey). There are no rights for those who even >want people's justice. Those who carry out massacres, those who protect the >murderers, those behind the massacres must also pay a price with their own >bodies. In the first year since the Ulucanlar massacre, we are continuing to >demand a reckoning. At seven in the morning on September 28, 2000, in >Esenler-Turgut Reis District (Istanbul), on a side street off the ring road >behind an overpass at the Yuzyil (Century) bridge near the Karabayir stop, >we carried out a bomb attack on a Cevik Kuvvetleri vehicle using a remote >control device, we destroyed a convoy belonging to the Cevik Kuvvetleri who >were among those responsible for Ulucanlar, wounding a large number of >police. >VIOLENCE IS LEGITIMATE IN A LAND WITHOUT JUSTICE > >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 anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
