DHKC: Italy must release Abdullah Öcalan immediately!

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DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI
REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT

Press Office
Date: November 14, 1998
Declaration No. 76

ITALY MUST RELEASE ABDULLAH ÖCALAN IMMEDIATELY!

The arrest of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan by Italy is a part of the
policy of terror and annihilation practised by imperialism towards
revolutionary organisations and their leaders throughout the
world. Imperialism, which has massacred millions of people because
they wanted to lead an honourable life and in order to suppress the
struggle of the world's peoples for independence, democracy and
socialism, has not changed its character.

At every opportunity it has announced that it can steep the world in
blood in order to maintain its regime of tyranny and exploitation.

Every act of repression, every arrest, every extermination drive which
imperialism carries out against the world's peoples is
illegitimate. It is the struggle the world's peoples have developed
against fascism and imperialism which is legitimate.

Up to the present, imperialism has carried out countless attacks and
plots against revolutionary organisations and leaders in our land. On
every occasion, imperialism was condemned by our peoples and its
repression could neither prevent our anti-fascist struggle nor wipe
out the revolutionaries.  All it received was an increased measure of
hatred from the peoples of the world.

Every attack on revolutionaries and revolutionary leaders means
supporting the Susurluk state and its fascist regime. Up to the
present, the European Union, the USA and NATO have been supporting the
massacres, the depriving of rights and freedom and the attacks by the
Susurluk state with credits, weapons and technical assistance, and
they are continuing to do so.

For every drop of blood shed, for poverty and loss of freedom suffered
by our peoples - Turks, Kurds, Laz, Cherkess, Bosnians, Georgians -
the USA and the European Union share responsibility. These countries
create collaborationist regimes behind a mask of human rights and
democracy, and they support them and subject our people to
tyranny. They compel our peoples to lead a life without dignity.

By pursuing revolutionary leaders and instituting Interpol proceedings
against them, revolutionary organisations are presented as criminal
and their leaders as being guilty, in order to hurl mud at and hinder
the liberation struggles of the peoples. Our peoples' struggles for
liberation cannot be prevented.

Before the imperialists who cooperate with the Susurluk state in
Turkey talk of democracy and freedom, they should take their own
history into account, the history they do not mention. In this hidden
history they will see that they have shed the blood of dozens of
millions of people. The German state more than anyone should look at
its own history before setting up a hue and cry against
revolutionaries. It should be ashamed of its history. If it cannot do
this, it should at least keep its mouth shut.

The struggle of the peoples against fascism is just and
legitimate. The revolutionary leaders of the peoples are
legitimate. It is the unjust fascist state in Turkey which is
illegitimate, along with those who support it. The national struggle
of the Kurdish people is also a just and legitimate struggle. For this
reason, the Italian government must set Abdullah Öcalan free
immediately, without setting political preconditions.

REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT

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