WE Must Save the Kurds, Anything less is Unconscionable

Turkish nationalists lynch Kurdish demonstrators, Turkish police watch

Tensions began on Sunday morning when Kurdish demonstrators in Istanbul threw stones and firebombs during a rally to protest the solitary confinement of imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Later, paramilitary police blocked thousands of other pro-Kurdish demonstrators from reaching the northwestern port town of Gemlik to stage an unauthorised demonstration. The port is used by Ocalan's lawyers to travel to the prison island of Imrali, where the rebel leader is the only inmate.

Paramilitary troops stopped dozens of buses packed with demonstrators before they could reach Gemlik, in the western province of Bursa.

Turkish police stopped and turned back tens of thousands of Kurds heading with buses towards Gemlik in western Turkey to carry out a gigantic peaceful demonstration in support of the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan.

the story gets Worse.....................

Turkish-Iranian bombarding of villages in the Kurdistan-Iraq

Turkish and Iranian forces have bombarded a number of border villages in the region between the north of Iraq, and Iran and Turkey. [Kurdistan]

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The weekly Hawlati newspaper (Independent Kurdish Newspaper) stated that the Turkish-Iranian bombarding of these villages has led to severe physical damages in them.

The newspaper pointed out that the Turkish bombarding of Bishon village, which is affiliated to Bairan in the north of Iraq [Kurdistan], which took place the day before yesterday, has led to the eruption of a great fire in the forests in the region.

On the other hand, the Iranian bombarding of Nazadagh region, near Khwakork Mountain has led to severe physical damages in the village and the death of a great number of cattle that the villagers are raising.

This is the deliberate targeting of a civilian village.  Let's not kid ourselves into thinking that the Iranians have real precise weaponry.  Even if they were targeting specific terrorists holed up in a village, they have to know that they are going to create a whole lot of collateral damage.  But Americans didn't do it so the terror nation gets a free pass.  The blogosphere needs to wake up on this.

 

As I have said before, I will not give a free pass to the PKK guys who run around and plant bombs where civilians could easily be killed.  Terrorism is terrorism.  It isn't noble.  It isn't moral.  It is never justified.  Perhaps the Turks and Iranians have good reason to clamp down on some elements who are committing acts of violence against the citizenry.  But let's always remember who these governments are and what they stand for.  They don't use violence to protect freedoms.  They use violence to oppress people and stop freedom.

 

If this report is true, where are the TV cameras?  A people of 30 million are being targeted and held back from freedom.  Yet the Palestinian terror state gets all the media.  This is just wrong.  The Bush Administration should be pushed to comment on this report.  And I mean PUSHED.  The same country that is interfering with the formation of a legitimate government in Iraq is bombing villages.  The same country that has sponsored the killing of US servicemen in Iraq is bombing a village.  The same country that is building secret nuclear programs and is backed by Russia and Germany in the UN is bombing a village.  And the Turks want to join the EU.  How many EU member states bombed a village today?  People need to be held to account.

 

This is why the Kurds should have independence.  They deserve the right to defend themselves.  With those rights, come responsibilities.  It will be up to the Kurds to show the world they can handle those responsibilities.  The unelected Iranian Mullahs have shown the world they can't.

 

Tim

and WTF is the kidnapped Dr. Roya Toloui...............where are the feminazis when you really need them?

Jailed Women's Rights Activist Needs Your Help

Dr. Roya Toloui, a champion of the rights of Iran's Kurdish minority and of women was detained from her home in Sanandaj on August 2. She is reported to be facing charges of "disturbing the peace" and "acting against national security." 'Human Rights First' is calling for her immediate and unconditional release from detention.