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March 13, 2009
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UK Carrying Out Turkey's War Against the Kurds!
Kurdishaspect.com - By Hevallo
As graves of Kurdish bodies dumped in 'acid wells' in NW Kurdistan (SE Turkey) are being uncovered the full extent of Turkey's 'dirty war' against the Kurds is beginning to come to the public's attention.
During those years Kurdish people were extrajudically executed, jailed and tortured. Villages were razed and human rights abuses on horrendous scale were perpetrated against the Kurdish people of Turkey systematically.
The Kurdish people in Turkey are still systemically discriminated against and suffer everyday racism from ultra nationalistic Turks and government.
They are fighting for basic political and human rights from a military regime that knows no mercy.
This is generally known.
What is less known about though is the UK Government's recent decision to give assistance to the Turkish regime of suppressing the Kurdish voice abroad.
Over the last three months there has been a steady rise in the harassment, intimidation and imprisonment without charge of Kurdish community members whose sole crime is to campaign and raise awareness of the situation of the Kurds in Turkey.
This began in Oct with early morning raids on three members of the Kurdish community where computers and personal belongings were taken from the homes while their children and family members were left sacred of such raids that reminded them of the repression in their homeland.
Since then a steady rise in levels of harassment and intimidation has continued and has reached such a level that Kurdish people feel under siege in their own community.
The UK home secretary, Jacqui Smith, was filmed on Turkish CNN TV at the beginning of the year promising Turkey, one of the world's worse human rights abusers, a crack down of Kurdish activists in the UK.
Kurdish people are now regularly being stopped in the street under 'anti terror' laws.
Only yesterday, 10 police officers with one civilian clothed detective entered the Kurdish Community Centre with a Turkish speaking person and identified pictures on the wall of Abdullah Ocalan and pointed at other pictures and magazines.
The officers were rude and abrupt in their manner and ignored questions from a member of the management committee who wanted to know who they were and what they were doing.
They began giving out leaflets calling of members of the community to call a special hotline if they had any information about PKK and collecting of money.
Interestingly, the Turkish translation read exactly as the Turkish Military labels as a 'struggle against terror'.
This shows that the Turkish Military Intelligence are working directly with the UK authorities and that a political decision has been made at the very highest level to work with one of the world's worst human rights abusers to crack down on Kurdish activists in exile.
There are now so many examples that it is becoming impossible to monitor them all but again only two weeks ago, one car was stopped outside London, there were three members of the Kurdish community from a legally registered charity, Kurdish Red Crescent that were detained, one Kurdish disabled woman was held in Paddington 'anti terror' police station and questioned repeatedly for days on end without respite. She was in pain from her leg and and did not eat for the duration of her 5 day ordeal.
One man was posting some leaflets regarding the Kurdish New Year celebrations in the post office and was approached by 'anti terror' police and questioned about his actions. This was the forth time in that week he had been stopped.
Another man distributing again, a legal Kurdish newspaper, was stopped and searched under anti terror' legislation.
Many restaurants and shops around the country have been approached by detectives from Scotland Yard trying to intimidate and harass Kurdish people on behalf of the Turkish regime into not supporting Kurdish people's rights.
And there are numerous more examples of harassment and intimidation of the Kurdish Community that are increasing on a daily basis.
If anyone from the UK intelligence community reads this post can I ask you a question.
Did you join the police force knowing that one day you would one day be aiding one of the world's worst human rights abusers, Turkey, to suppress an already persecuted people?
NO CHARGES HAVE BEEN BROUGHT AGAINST ANY OF THE KURDISH PEOPLE IMPRISONED OR HARASSED.
WHY IS THE UK AUTHORITIES AIDING ONE OF THE WORLDS WORST HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS, TURKEY, TO SUPPRESS KURDISH EXILES?
IT IS TIME TO SPEAK OUT!
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