MRTA: Solidarity With The Kurdish P

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From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.etext.org>
Subject: MRTA: Solidarity With The Kurdish People!

Solidarity With The Kurdish-Turkish People And With The Peace
Train!

     From the Human Rights Commission of the Tupac Amaru
Revolutionary Movement, in the name of the men and women who from
the Andes and the Peruvian Amazon aspire and struggle to achieve
the peace with social justice that all human beings deserve.
     The Kurdish people, like the Andean people, have suffered
for many years colonial oppression against their culture and the
right to free self-determination that belongs to them as to any
other people of the world.
     This was the understanding of the diverse human rights
delegations of the "peace train", men and women who aspire to
live in peace and harmony, respecting the decision of each human
group to develop its own culture, language, and customs. The
mobilization had a strictly peaceful character and its purpose
was the search for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question.
     Nevertheless, the Turkish government, in a show of
authoritarianism that has nothing to do with the democratic
aspirations of its people, not only closed the possibilities of
an attempt at peaceful solutions, but also, emulating fascist
regimes or like that of the sadly famous Fujimori in Peru, has
detained, mistreated, and heaped indignities on fighters for
peace.
     The Turkish government ought to keep in mind that
authoritarianism leads to dictatorship and murder, which will
isolate it like the Peruvian dictator Fujimori, who, following
the horrible massacre in the residence of the Japanese
ambassador, has touched bottom, repudiated by the Peruvian people
and the international community and who has received
demonstrations of repudiation from the peoples of the world.
     We condemn the repression of the Turkish government against
the peace train and those in solidarity with the Kurdish people,
because it violates the most basic human rights of free
association and expression. We reiterate our conviction that in
this globalized world there remains to the poor of the world only
the militant solidarity among ourselves.

Against Neo-Colonialism And Against Neo-Liberalism!
Solidarity And Internationalism With The Kurdish People!

Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
August 1997

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