From antennae at gn.apc.org  Sat Aug  8 03:19:56 1992
From: antennae at gn.apc.org (antennae at gn.apc.org)
Date: 08 Aug 1992 02:19:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: International Pesticide Reform Info
References: <APC.1.0.54efc656.4f0@igc.apc.org>
Message-ID: <APC.2.0.4a15267e.4f8@gn.apc.org>


Wotcher, does this information service extend to the production of
mustard gas, cyanide and nerve gases in plants supposedly designed
for the production of pesticides?


From antennae at gn.apc.org  Mon Aug 10 01:01:51 1992
From: antennae at gn.apc.org (antennae at gn.apc.org)
Date: 10 Aug 1992 00:01:51 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: August Nat. Geographic on Kurds
Message-ID: <APC.2.0.4a15267f.073@gn.apc.org>



From: <pnmideast>
Subject: National Geographic / Talabani Quot

/* Originally written  2:49 pm  Aug  1, 1992 by hla at urartu.sdpa.org
in cdp:soc.culture.tu */
/* ---------- "National Geographic / Talabani Quot" ---------- */

To the attention of people interested in reading about the Kurds
and people following the Turkish-Armenian discussion:
--------------------------------------------------------------

The August issue of the National Geographic magazine features the
Kurds in an excellent and informative article by Christopher
Hitchins . In it, one will also find the remarks of a top Kurdish
leader Jalal Talabani regarding the Ottoman Turkish use of
Kurdish mercenaries in the annihilation of Armenians in Turkey.

Hirac Asodyan


From nytransfer at igc.apc.org  Sat Aug 29 21:03:57 1992
From: nytransfer at igc.apc.org (Blythe Systems)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:03:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Turkish Army Massacres Kurds
Message-ID: <APC.1.0.54efc657.0f9@igc.apc.org>

From: Blythe Systems <nytransfer>
Subject: Turkish Army Massacres Kurds


Via The NY Transfer News Service ~ All the News that Doesn't Fit

Turkish army massacres kurds

By Ali Azad

Starting on Aug. 18, Turkish troops opened fire in the Kurdish
town of Sirnak and killed hundreds of Kurdish civilians. The
Turkish army imposed a curfew on the town and have forbidden
people to leave their houses.

According to the Human Rights Association of Diyarbakir, Turkey,
and the Kurdistan Information Center in London, the Turkish army
has also bombed the villages of Hestan, Dehla, Biye and Zoroya in
Turkish Kurdistan.

The army has refused to allow the injured to be moved to the
hospitals outside Sirnak. Many injured are dying from lack of
treatment.

To justify the attack on Sirnak, the Turkish state-controlled
media told the world that government and military buildings in
Sirnak had been raided by more than a thousand guerrillas from
the Workers Party of Kurdistan. This group, known by its Kurdish
initials PKK, has been carrying on an armed liberation struggle
against the oppressive Turkish state since 1984.

According to the Kurdistan Information Center statement, "If
there had been more than 1,000 guerrillas in Sirnak the regional
governor and minister of the interior would have had to think
twice about flying into Sirnak by helicopter."

The statement also quoted an eyewitness from the region:

"The areas of Guzelyurt, Gazi, Imetpasa, Cumhuriyet, have been
destroyed. The soldiers are pouring petrol on the houses, then
firing from five to six meters away and setting them on fire.
Special counter-insurgency teams are now taking the electrical
goods from the shops and loading them on the military vehicles.
For two days there has been no water, no electricity and no
food."

Turkey is a member of NATO and receives $1 billion a year in
direct U.S. military aid, third highest in the world after Israel
and Egypt. It is also the site of 15 U.S. military bases.

Meanwhile the big business-controlled media in the U.S. has given
no publicity whatsoever to the events in Sirnak. Media complicity
only highlights the Pentagon participation in the massacre of
Kurdish people.

                              -30-

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