Analysis: CSTO Intent On Enhancing Political, Military Cooperation

ANALYSIS: CSTO INTENT ON ENHANCING POLITICAL, MILITARY COOPERATION
By Naira Hayrumyan

ArmeniaNow
07.09.11 | 15:26

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CSTO is a 7-member coalition for the security of post-soviet states.

December will see another summit of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO), a Russia-dominated defense alliance of seven
former Soviet states, which is likely to focus on the possibility of
strengthening potential by having its powers expanded.

(The military-political alliance includes Russia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus and Armenia).

Moscow suggests negotiating with NATO and “passing to the CSTO
the peacekeeping mandate in the former Soviet space.” It is also
suggested that the already existing Rapid Reaction Force could be
used in preventing coups in member countries.

“The matter concerns measures related to improving the regulatory
framework, the possibility of making decisions and using the potential
of the CSTO for the protection of the constitutional order of member
countries,” said CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha.

No less interesting is the fact that Moscow proposes abolishing the
principle of consensus in making decisions and replacing it with a
simple majority vote. In other words, while until now the CSTO wasn’t
entitled to meddle in republics’ affairs unless there was a consensus,
now theoretically it may introduce troops into any member state with
the consent of as few as only two presidents.

A source at the Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed plans to reform
the CSTO and added that due to changes in the organization it may
lose one of its members – Uzbekistan, which opposes decision-making
by a majority rather than a consensus.

Neither the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, nor the Defense Ministry of
Armenia has commented on the initiatives regarding possible changes
in the CSTO. The issue of official Yerevan’s attitude towards CSTO
troops possible peacekeeping missions and acting as gendarmes does
not become a subject of public debate in Armenia, even though it is
directly related to the country’s national security.

“Active discussions have already begun within the Russian government
agencies regarding how to reform the organization so as to make it
more efficient in safeguarding Moscow’s interests in the post-Soviet
space,” writes the Russian newspaper Kommersant. It is no accident
that the matter concerns only “protection of Moscow’s interests.”

Russia is clearly stepping up its influence in the post-Soviet
territory. In the Russian press one can often come across headlines
such as “Front Against Russia”, with which Russian political pundits
express their outrage at the fact that post-Soviet countries resist
Russian expansion and do not want to “relax and have fun”.

Ukraine, for instance, is blamed for not wishing to join the Customs
Union with Russia and does not want to give up its pipes to Russia’s
state-run gas monopolist Gazprom. Belarus has already bowed down and
Russia has received everything it wanted from it. Tajikistan, too,
has extended the term of the deployment of a Russian military base
in its territory for 49 years.

Russia and six other former Soviet republics plan to strengthen their
political and military cooperation, as well as cooperation between
their law-enforcement agencies to protect each other from the danger
of riots like those that toppled regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya,
writes Bloomberg.

According to Bordyuzha, the alliance of former Soviet republics has
agreed to create a mechanism that allows protecting “constitutional
order at the request of a lawfully elected head of state.” Cooperation
could include the provision of political, law-enforcement or military
support, he stressed.

Last year the CSTO decided to create peacekeeping forces and re-equip
their Rapid Reaction Force. Now, as Bordyuzha said, it will add to
its tasks counteraction against possible riots in member states.

“The whole system of crisis response that was enhanced last year
focuses on the prevention of threats to security and stability,”
the official said. “And this is primarily an internal problem.”

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George Karimi(An) – "An Armenian Political Prisoner"

GEORGE KARIMI(AN) – “AN ARMENIAN POLITICAL PRISONER”
By Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian

Sep 7, 2011

Money, Money, Money … a worthless piece of paper not good enough
to wipe your…with, but when called a Dollar or a Euro, people go
mad for it – they’ll do strange things to get it, they’ll twist and
turn, lie, cheat, beat and anything else to get a lot of it, they’ll
genuflect before it, worship it as God Mammon, offer it their genitals,
sell their bodies, whore their mothers, daughters and nowadays their
sons too, and finally kill one another without a moment’s hesitation!

When Money turns into … Oil, the American Congressmen go instantly
blind and see only black gold, sup with the Devil on gas-guzzling
limos, ready to genocide any nation that dares defy their drunken
passion for Petrol-drinks.

Four decades ago, I knew the Vice President of an American Tar company,
who loved his million dollars untouched in the Bank so much, that he
would force his wife to work (and brag about it to friends like us)
only and only to pay his taxes through her own slave-labor she hated,
merely to preserve the virginity of his dollar-account! His massive
car, bigger than today’s rip-off one-bedroom flats in London, in a
suburb of Chicago (Highland Park) exclusive to the super-duper-rich,
was gold-plated … Mind you, he was a very nice guy, just a little
too stingy – he was delighted his youngest daughter married in London,
at a Registry office, in his absence, saving him the cost of a Highland
Park wedding!

Anglo-Americans love their monies more than their own flesh-and-blood
children. A woman friend of mine who has absolutely nothing except
her gentle soul (and believes in Indian gurus) has an English
blood-brother, who is a rocket-scientist and has everything, including
a nasty money-obsessed wife – he took his poverty-stricken sister to
a London court, went as far as incredibly charging her falsely of
manslaughter merely to disinherit her of their Alzheimer-suffering
mother’s house left by testament to her daughter – the totally
corrupt English judge in awe of a rocket-scientist, drove my woman
friend to a suicidal attempt that failed – thank God – and I myself
(just out of open-heart surgery) had to suffer for several months
the excruciating agony from the end of a telephone line at witching
hours trying to persuade her not to throw herself under traffic .

The mysterious Power of Mammon that drives men and women thus mad and
Governments to committing genocides lies in the abstract … poetry of
its conceptual creation – for Money, initially as metallic coins – gold
and silver, later copper – was man’s perhaps greatest intellectual
invention, as long ago as 2,500 years. According to Herodotus,
the Lydians, very close to Phrygian-Armenians (perhaps even a tribe
of them!) were the first in History to mint coins at the beginning
of the reign of their King Alyattes (reigned c. 610-550 BC) whose
son was Croesus, whose wealth in pure gold was legendary, although
he himself was a historical figure. It seems that the small river
named Pactolus ran with gold in his kingdom – a myth tells of Midas,
a King of the Armenian Phrygians, who suffered from the unbearable
incurable disease New York and London City-Bankers would love to
be infected with – whatever Midas touched, it turned into gold –
he could not even feed himself any longer … he finally cured
himself washing his hands in the waters of the River Pactolus,
causing the Lydians to invent the very first consumerist society –
they very cleverly invented not only the means of supply-and-demand,
but also the very first mini shopping malls (in permanent locations!)

The philosophical transcendent concept of Money – that a worthless
piece of metal or paper on the say-so of an authority can be instantly
transfigured and exchanged for an object produced by hard labor of
any kind – is indeed a peak of awesome cultural imagination and human
intellectual achievement.

The Lydian coins were stamped with a vicious (wild open-mouthed)
lion-head; the national totem of the Hittite-Armenians, with a
sun-burst on the diadem – the symbol of the most ancient Sun-King
Deity. It took mankind, the Chinese another thousand years to make
the intellectual jump to inventing paper-money (about 960AD) equally
worthless without authoritative endorsement by the Dragon-Emperor.

Highest Authorities, both east and west would annihilate to cinders
any human that dared forge money – they would torture, maim, cut off
limbs and finally heads of the forgers. Britain’s King designated its
and the world’s greatest first Scientist Isaac Newton as the Master
of the Royal Mint in 1699 – and the great scientist became a harsh
punisher of counterfeiters.

Johanness Vermeer (1632-75), the great Dutch Old Master realist painter
had a maternal grandfather; Balthazar Geretz, known locally in the city
of Delft (in Holland, famous for its ceramic tiles), as an engineer
and a clock-maker. Documents just found record that he was arrested
in April 1619 for running a coin-counterfeiting operation with his son
(the great Vermeer’s uncle). It was considered a very serious crime –
against the State itself, as Europe was emerging into modernity from
medieval kingdoms where under the guise of Alchemy, every prince and
king nursed their own secret alchemists to discover the ‘chemical’
means of converting base metal into gold!

Two of Balthazar’s co-conspirators were tortured and beheaded, but
the mastermind himself, Balthazar was inexplicably … freed, his
case officially hushed up at the highest level, raising all sorts of
modern critical doubts, from being a Dutch government spy to being
a victim of horrendous injustice.

Recently, dated 18 May 2011, an article appeared on the
internet site of the Swedish Time-Magazine type publication;

I think neither the writer of the piece, nor the editorial board is
aware of the ultra sensational nature of the shocking material they
have published. It is like announcing the sudden death of President
Obama at his desk in the Oval Office!!

The article reveals and confirms to the whole world a most secret
fact of economic fraud that may devastate in a day, in a second the
American, Russian and Chinese economies at once, that these globalized
(read for it Capitalist) economies are awash with a Noah’s Flood of
forged dollars, that they are sitting on mountains and mountains …

Himalayan mountain ranges of worthless useless paper, rough even for
a toilet-paper!

It also calls the bluff that the capitalists earn an honest living
through decent profits – they deceive, cheat, steal, loot, forge,
blackmail, rip-off people for dishonest gain and indecent profits.

There is perhaps annually a trillion dollars-worth of dirty
mafia-money circulating in the financial markets of the world from
drugs, prostitution, blackmail, extortion, racketeering and murder,
but dirty-money is at least serious money. Forged-money may be nice
and clean and shiny, but it is of course not money at all – sheer
worthless paper, cheaper than an illustrated children’s book with
the Queen’s Technicolor head published by Oxford University Press
at rip-off prices. Money-laundering is a mild-crime compared with
money-counterfeiting.

Simultaneously with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international
money-markets were instantly flooded with forged-dollars in such
a massive illegal ‘quantitative easing’ that the constipated KGB
(resisting economic laxatives for half a century) was suspected by
their CIA partners of the foul deed! Hitherto in the Capitalist West,
forgers were so terrified of the medieval tradition of inconceivable
tortures that they would deliberately produce bad copies as a potential
argument for mitigating circumstances in case they were captured to
be beheaded for counterfeiting. The emergent Russian mafia had no
such inhibitions – their imitation Monopoly-money was technically so
perfectly reproduced that the American government had neither the skill
nor the resources to catch the forgeries … they had to let it be.

I remember seeing a Hollywood thriller about this suggesting that
the Russians had actually successfully stolen the very original
printing-moulds from the American Mint with the help of unpatriotic
mafia-linked corrupt CIA operatives … the reason for which the
counterfeit-dollars were impossible to capture as they were printed
by the same moulds as the true dollars of the US government. If true,
then for the first time in counterfeiting history, those forged dollars
were in fact true … illegal, but true, and not counterfeits …This
was regarded as the greatest foxiest conspiracy yet, a massive victory
scored by the dying Soviet Union converting its KGB-dogs into the
capitalist hyenas in the clothing of the new Russian Oligarchs.

The billions of the Russian Oligarch dollars sitting in the British
tax-havens are in theory counterfeit, hence worthless, as are the
trillions of the American government debt bought by the Chinese
government-dollars accumulated by the underpaid and massively
exploited Chinese labor force. The tragic irony is that, while the
masses are starving in Russia, China and in the US, the stinking
nets of extreme poverty are engulfing millions more globally into
the poverty trap every day, the murderous mafia-oligarchs of those
countries are building their paper-mansions on polluted counterfeited
hot-air non-existent money … in other words, peoples of the world
are dying for no-money in more senses than one!

And this grand secret hitherto brushed under the carpet as Hollywood
fantasy is finally proven by the imprisonment of a totally innocent
Armenian, George Karimi(an) pounced upon by the Chinese government,
soon to become the world’s largest economy – a sweet and gentle
family father, George is the son of frail old parents – British
citizens – riddled with inconsolable grief, ignorant of all politics
and economic theory, falsely charged and convicted and victimized,
minced and crushed by inhuman bureaucrats with no conscience or basic
human decency.

How can the Chinese and Swedish bureaucrats sleep at night snatching
the life out of Armenian parents who live by the breath of their
children … I found the British Armenian parents of George Karimi
living in London in a ground floor council-flat on an estate near
Ealing Broadway – and it was heart-breaking – put yourself in the
shoes of his mother receiving a phone-call one day from her bride in
Sweden saying that her son is imprisoned in … China for life! It
tells a lot about the resilience of a traditional Armenian mother and
her husband who can hardly walk because of several crippling illnesses
that they were comforting me, as I was crying for their son …

I am all for the Chinese Communist Party. Unlike the CIA murderers,
I do not wish them dead. The founders of Communism – Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels – had common ground in Judeo-Christian beliefs of a
compassionate society with social justice. Similarly, the Chinese
Communist Party led by Mao Zhe Dong and his comrades produced
the greatest benefit for the peoples of China. And their brand of
communism had common ground with Confucianism embedded in the Chinese
Soul. Unfortunately, Mao in old age went senile mad as he invented
the Red Guards and their un-cultural evolution!

What appalls me is the lack of intelligence on behalf of the
corrupt Chinese government bureaucrats – bureaucrats of all
nations throughout history have always manifested great stupidity –
nevertheless in this case, the mindlessness of the Chinese, and the
Swedish Government in awe and terror of the global propaganda about the
Chinese future potential, is mind-boggling. They should have displayed
the intelligence of the Dutch bureaucrats of Delft city in the 17th
century, to quietly free George Karimi with a massive compensation
for deliberate wrongful imprisonment. The Dutch had the foresight
three hundred years ago to free Vermeer’s guilty grandfather … but
the modern Chinese, by imprisoning George Karimi, had the stupidity of
confirming the world’s greatest economic fraud committed by the Russian
mafia pandering to and practicing American imperialist globalization.

The American Government-plan for eventual world domination is
long-standing and a mathematical constant – it pops up in every
emergent socio-sexual military-economic formula of world-governance.

The American love-affair with Arab Oil-producers and the promotion
of genocide as a military-industrial collateral necessity are by now
globally well-established.

One disguise less noticed is the American government manipulation (for
imperialist domination) of other national economies through the global
use of the Dollar – every South American Banana-Republic created by
the CIA post Second World-War would immediately adopt the Dollar as
the basis of its economy, and long term monetary-fiscal policy. The
nasty habit is still going on under our congested noses – every East
European ex-Soviet satellite economy, un-absorbed by the European
Union, goes berserk-mad for the Dollar, including the economies of
the countries in the Caucasus; Armenia-Georgia-Azerbaijan. Although
the latter have issued post-Soviet national currency, the preferred
mode of Business transactions including prostitution is dollar-based,
especially the immense national wealth looted by the mafia-oligarchs.

The release of the Noah’s floodgates of counterfeit dollars is the
greatest economic whack the Soviet Union could imprint on the American
imperialist fat-ass. The irony is that the Chinese are themselves
innocent victims of this, and they simply are at a loss as how to
secure their genuine dollars, and ensure that their dollars are
genuine and not counterfeit from the Russian mafia photo-copying …

China’s unforgivable error, unfit for a Communist Party act, was the
genocidal victimization of an innocent Armenian.

George Karimi(an) is a child of the nation that had the misfortune
of being an inconvenient obstacle in Historical Anatolian Armenia
(in today’s Turkey) to the imperialist plans of the German Kaiser
who plagued the globe with then First World War, to genocide first
of all 1.5 million Armenians, with the help of the Ottoman Young Turks.

Kaiser Wilhelm II had just exercised his genocidal muscles in South
Africa on the Herero, then on the Boxer Rebels of China, beheading
them in 1901 in the streets of Beijing …

Our George went to Beijing with rosy-pink glasses on, excited by
the Chinese Communist Party’s noble plans to improve the life of the
ordinary Chinese citizens, following the great leader Deng Xiaoping’s
dictum that ‘Wealth creation is good’. George believed in decent
capitalism, the type the Chinese Government is pursuing today.

Little could George guess that he was to become the victim of the
totally corrupted faction of the government which the Chinese Communist
Party itself is trying to eliminate!

The Father of ancient Armenian History, Movsess Khorenatsi (5th c. AD)
wrote of a Chinese Nobleman who escaped the horrendous civil wars in
China to find safe haven in ancient Armenia and became the progenitor
of the Mamikonian aristocratic clan dedicated to the military defense
of the Armenian Kingdom. Fifteen centuries later, George went to
China in the 21st c. to find … imprisonment.

In October 2003, Gorge K was suddenly and inexplicably arrested,
precisely (by a strange mysterious coincidence) as Mr.K in Kafka’s
fictional novel (The Trial), but in George’s case, on a strange and
most ridiculous charge of … ‘violent resistance’ – to what, to
whom? – by then it seemed a stereotype used by the corrupt factions
in the Chinese

Government to cover up the bigger rotten capitalist fish and sharks
of the Communist Party.

Oblivious to the inhumanity of overcrowded Chinese prison-cells, where
inmates are shown daily the heartbreaking videos of the unbearable
agonies of relatives of those condemned to be shot; it took the
Chinese government injustice … two whole years to convert their
ridiculous charge of violent resistance to the very serious trumped
up one of selling counterfeit-dollars …

George had a friend, called Milap, from India. During the SARS epidemic
scare, concerned about Milap’s well-being, not having heard from him,
George had gone to Milap’s flat to see if he was ok, when he gets
arrested as he rings the bell. Now in January 2005, put on a show
trial, George discovered that Milap was his sole accuser, and most
mysteriously, inexplicably and incredibly was already safely packaged
… out of the country back into India.

The corrupt Chinese judiciary had punished Milap by … sending him
safely back home to India. Surely, no government authority anywhere
in the world could display greater stupidity. Anyone hearing this
would laugh their heads off, were the consequences not so tragic for
another innocent human being.

At his show-trial, George was crestfallen to hear a hilarious story
that he had supposedly instructed Milap to meet two … Singapore
citizens at a hotel in Beijing to … sell them for 73,000 dollars,
hidden in (very funny this!) ten large notebooks … 128,300
counterfeit American paper-dollars (in Swedish, falska amerikanska
dollar i sedler).

The Singapore men – were they ethnically Chinese? Agents of rotten
Chinese Communist Party Big Fish? – were caught with a small –
why small? – amount of counterfeit dollars – why not the full agreed
amount of 73,000? – at the airport on 7 October, 2003, two days before
George had voluntarily gone to Milap’s flat to be happily arrested
like a fool. Surely, if George was the mastermind of such a clever
global operation, he would be intelligent enough not to get arrested
searching for his Indian friend!

More stupendous Chinese bureaucratic hilarity follows – on 9 October,
while George is safely in their cell, the Chinese police miraculously
find … 41 large notebooks – it seems the original ten had … spawned
like fish into forty-one, and (wait for this, with a handkerchief
to your nose to blow it, out of uncontrollable laughter), containing
additional 534,000 dollars in forged notes …

And what happened to those half a million actual counterfeit dollars
captured?

Did anyone witness the Chinese communist party police burning them?

I bet they are already in the bank account of a corrupt Communist Party
official … while our poor George, the red apple of his mother’s
eyes in floods of tears in London, was described as the leader and
the mastermind of the hilarious operation, obviously with a magic
wand fertilizing the number of the notebooks and printing counterfeit
dollars from his toilet-cell, watched by Chinese Red Guards showing
him obscene video films of relatives … dying of grief for their
loved ones ticked for shooting the next day like sitting ducks.

Obviously, clear as sunshine after rain, there is a massive operation
of fake-dollars being produced by the likes of the Singapore citizens
and Indian men like Milap, for which reason they are not even brought
to court, to safely continue their useful operation for the corrupt
capitalist factions of the Chinese communist billionaires …

Milap had even the bad conscience of later withdrawing his charges
completely (not even partly), confirming from India that he had
incriminated himself and George under torture. The timid Defense
had produced Milap’s written oath in Court exonerating George of all
guilt – Chinese lawyers are trained not to mount vigorous defiance
of the Judge acting as a Communist Party functionary.

Incredibly, George was still rubber-stamped automatically as “Guilty”
on 19th December 2005. It takes another … two years for the corrupt
Chinese judiciary to silence their communist conscience and condemn
George in 2007 to Life-imprisonment. Thus, the Chinese authorities
tried to simultaneously cover-up the political nature of the case by
converting it into a charge purely of economic crime.

The kind and noble, and decent Armenian that George is, moved the
guilty conscience of the righteous faction of the Chinese Communist
party to commute his Life to 18 years, appreciating George’s good
behavior. Moreover, in the summer of 2010, the same faction releases
George Karimi finally to the Swedish Government, who transfers
him directly to a Swedish … jail – Storboda-anstalten, North of
Stockholm.

The Swedish government brags about the success of its “silent
diplomacy”… letting the Chinese corrupt government-factions devastate
the freedom – the most precious and priceless Human right – of an
innocent Swedish citizen for seven interminable years. The measure of
the Swedish government’s pathetic success is that they intend to keep
our innocent noble Armenian in prison … for another five long years.

Does not the great King of Sweden possess any clout with the Chinese
government to free our George immediately, on the hard-core evidence of
Milap’s witness statement of George’s innocence? The King’s ancestor,
Gustav the Vth had the courage to negotiate with Satan himself,
Mr. Hitler, for a humane treatment of the Jews!

What does George Karimi’s political show trial cover-up? That the
counterfeiting of Dollars by the Chinese criminals is still going
on, in imitation of and competition with the Russian mafia; centered
probably in Singapore; by agents like Milap, free to operate enriching
the totally corrupt Chinese Communist oligarchs.

I have no doubts in my mind – well-aware of the Chinese mindset through
some knowledge of its simple yet complicated language – the Confucian
Good Communists of China would be delighted if the Swedish government
had the wisdom and subtlety of freeing George Karimi immediately from
his … Swedish prison. Otherwise, why would they release him at all
if their state-criminal charge was genuine? They would have shot him
already …

Confucius was full of sardonic wit and humor which Western admirers
unfortunately never grasp; in the very first Book of The Analects
(Arcturus Publishing, London, 2010, pp. 9-10), when one of his
disciples, the philosopher Yu tries to … philosophize on Virtue in
a long-winded fashion showing the Master kow-towing filial affection,
Confucius does not hesitate to cut him short and out by a devastating
quip on private flattery and hypocrisy – “Artful speech and an
ingratiating demeanor rarely accompany virtue”, which is very much
the case of the Swedish Government foot-licking the Bad money-mad
Chinese Communist Capitalists!

Unfortunately the new-found hypocrisies of recent Swedish governments
(post Olaf Palme’s still mysterious assassination) keen on pleasing
official America by denying its best humanist Socialist traditions
of the past – the envy of the whole world – now trying to modernize
and globalize within the US free market paradigm, and in terror
of the future power of Chinese Capitalism, is victimizing its own
citizen George Karimi merely to indulge the corrupt faction of the
Bad Communists in-power in the Chinese Government.

George is completely innocent as Jesus Christ was – and the Swedish
Government must not play the role of Pontius Pilate, washing its
hands off.

The Swedish Government must not betray the humanitarian tradition of
its good men, like Edvard Vilhelm SiÅ’blom, a Swedish Missionary who
was brave enough to lead an international protest movement in 1897
from London – the evil heart of the British Empire – against one
of the most powerful and murderous monarchs of Europe, King Leopold
II of Belgium, who had killed over 10 million (some put the figure
at 30 million) Africans, half the population of Congo, genocided
barbarically, hands and heads chopped off in Rubber plantations –
the Black Gold of the times!

The Swedish Government, instead of shaming itself by keeping a
political prisoner of conscience, could encourage the Good among the
factions of the Chinese government by reminding them – like a true
Confucius – that their great modernizer and wealth-creator, Deng
Xiaoping was himself purged twice during the Cultural Revolution,
and his totally innocent son Deng Pufang was tortured by the mad Red
Guards and forced out of a window in a 4-storey building … saved
miraculously from certain death, though a paraplegic today.

The Good Communists of China must refrain from such murderous acts.

The Swedish Government Pilate must immediately free George, innocent
like Deng Pufang, before he is crucified (like Deng Xiaoping’s
son), as George’s health is neglected and deteriorating – he simply
cannot survive another five years of unfair, unjust and inhuman
incarceration. George is only human – he lacks Christ’s divine strength
and power.

The Swedish Government, faithful to its own humanitarian Socialist
principles must encourage the Good Communists of the Chinese Government
to see Justice done and not side with rampantly evil market forces
destroying human decencies.

FREE GEORGE KARIMIAN IMMEDIATELY I say – The sole political prisoner
of Conscience in Sweden, and compensate him for his lost youth!

http://massispost.com/?p=4282
http://www.fokus.se/2011/05/fangen-fran-folkrepubliken/

A.Harutyunyan: We Don’t Need Azerbaijan’s Half Guarantees

A.HARUTYUNYAN: WE DON’T NEED AZERBAIJAN’S HALF GUARANTEES

Aysor.am
Wednesday,September 07

The European Broadcasting Union tries to get all the guarantees
from Azerbaijan that Armenian delegation needs to partake in the
“Eurovision – 2012” international song competition, said Alexan
Harutyunyan the head of the Armenian Public Radio Television council.

“We told the European Broadcasting Union that we do not need the half
guarantees provided by Azerbaijan, but we need guarantees of European
Broadcasting Union itself,” he said adding that they are in the stage
of getting those guarantees and they will get them before the meeting
in Geneva which is to be held on December.

Cooperation Agreement Between Gevorgyan Seminary Of Armenia And Sain

COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN GEVORGYAN SEMINARY OF ARMENIA AND SAINT PETERSBURG ORTHODOX ACADEMY SIGNED

Lragir.am News

13:53:08 – 07/09/2011

The Memorandum is composed of nine points relating to the development
of educational, scientific, editorial, methodological projects.

Exchanges of students and professors and introduction of new technical
methods will be held based on the memorandum.

Interuniversity cooperation agreements are planned to be signed also
with English, Norwegian, Austrian and Italian religious institutions.

http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country23257.html

Another "Suspicious" Death Of An Armenian Soldier Reported

ANOTHER “SUSPICIOUS” DEATH OF AN ARMENIAN SOLDIER REPORTED
Grisha Balasanyan

hetq
11:28, September 7, 2011

Early this morning, the death of yet another Armenian soldier was
confirmed by the Armenian military.

Hayk Lazarian, a 19 year-old conscript from Armavir Marz in Armenia,
died while serving at a military outpost in the Askeran district
of Artsakh.

Manvel Babayan, mayor of the village of Amberd in Armavir where the
soldier hails from, told Hetq that word reached him early this morning
and that he went to convey the tragic news to Hayk’s parents.

“We still don’t know what exactly happened. Hayk was a good boy and
a hard worker from a poor family,” Mayor Babyan told Hetq.

We tried to get more information from the RA Ministry of Defense but
our calls to the press office have gone unanswered.

More Than 70 Political Prisoners In Azerbaijan

MORE THAN 70 POLITICAL PRISONERS IN AZERBAIJAN

Tert.am
11:34 07.09.11

More than 70 political prisoners currently serve their time in the
prisons of Azerbaijan, according to the Alliance for Protection of
Political Freedoms.

The Azerbaijani news agency Turan has quoted a coordinator of the
organization, Anar Mamedli, as saying that 11 opposition activists,
including non-partisans and members of the opposition Popular Front
and Musavat parties, have been detained recently.

“We are currently clarifying their number. But according to
preliminary, there are now more than 70 political prisoners,”
Mamedi said.

Process Of Modernization Of Three Armenian Checkpoints Discussed

PROCESS OF MODERNIZATION OF THREE ARMENIAN CHECKPOINTS DISCUSSED

armradio.am
07.09.2011 14:14

Secretary of the National Security Council of Armenia Arthur
Baghdasaryan received UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident
Representative in Armenia Dafina Gercheva.

Mrs. Gercheva presented the process of modernization of the three
checkpoints of Armenia with the support of the UNDP. An international
tender for carrying out the construction works will be announced in
the near future, she said.

Arthur Baghdasaryan stressed the importance of having checkpoints
corresponding to EU standards as soon as possible.

Other issues of Armenia-UNDP cooperation were also discussed.

Revue De Presse N2 – 06/09/11 – Collectif VAN

REVUE DE PRESSE N2 – 06/09/11 – COLLECTIF VAN

Collectif VAN

06-09-2011

Le Collectif VAN [Vigilance Arménienne contre le Négationnisme]
vous propose une revue de presse des informations parues dans
la presse francophone, sur les thèmes concernant la Turquie, le
génocide arménien, la Shoah, le génocide des Tutsi, le Darfour,
le négationnisme, l’Union européenne, Chypre, etc… Nous vous
suggérons également de prendre le temps de lire ou de relire
les informations et traductions mises en ligne dans notre rubrique

Par ailleurs, certains articles en anglais, allemand, turc, etc,
ne sont disponibles que dans la newsletter Word que nous générons
chaque jour. Pour la recevoir, abonnez-vous a la Veille-Média :
c’est gratuit ! Vous recevrez le document du lundi au vendredi dans
votre boîte email. Bonne lecture.

Collectif VAN : l’éphéméride du 6 septembre 2011 Info Collectif VAN
– – La rubrique “Ephéméride” du Collectif VAN a
été lancée le 6 décembre 2010. Elle recense la liste d’événements
survenus a une date donnée, a différentes époques de l’Histoire, sur
les thématiques que l’association suit au quotidien. L’éphéméride
du Collectif VAN repose sur des informations en ligne sur de nombreux
sites (les sources sont spécifiées sous chaque entrée). “6
septembre 1955 — Turquie : le 6 septembre 1955 lorsqu’un attentat
manqué contre le consulat turc a Thessalonique déclencha un pogrom
a Istanbul contre ” les infidèles ”, c’est-a-dire les Arméniens
et les Grecs. Dans la nuit du 6-7 septembre 1955, les citoyens grecs,
arméniens et juifs d’Istanbul ont vécu l’enfer.

C’était le point final du plan d’une turcification fanatique de la
république kémaliste causant le départ de toute une génération
d’Arméniens mais aussi de Grecs – passe complètement inapercue. Les
émeutes anti-grecques et anti-arméniennes des 6 et 7 septembre 1955,
se sont déroulées sous la présidence de Celal Bayar.”

Flottille : Ankara et IsraÔl au bord de la crise de nerfs Le divorce
consommé officiellement, vendredi, entre Ankara et IsraÔl a déja
fait ses premières victimes. Une quarantaine de touristes israéliens
a été interrogée et fouillée pendant une heure et demie a son
arrivée a l’aéroport Ataturk d’Istanbul, lundi matin.

L’info vue par la TRT (7) Le Collectif VAN vous propose cet article
publié sur la TRT (Télévision & Radio de Turquie). Les articles
de ce site ne sont pas commentés de notre part. Ils peuvent contenir
des propos négationnistes envers le génocide arménien ou d’autres
informations a prendre sous toute réserve. “Les sanctions adoptées
par la Turquie a l’encontre d’IsraÔl sont commentées en manchette
par la presse internationale”.

Crise Turquie/IsraÔl. Les relations commerciales et militaires
suspendues La crise diplomatique sévère entre IsraÔl et la Turquie,
l’un des rares pays musulmans “ami”, s’accentue. Le Premier ministre
turc a annoncé la suspension totale des relations commerciales et
militaires avec l’état hébreu.

Dépêche de l’APA [ 06 sept 2011 14:39 ] – Agence de Presse
d’Azerbaïdjan Le Collectif VAN vous propose un article de l’APA
(Agende de presse azérie) daté du 6 septembre 2011. Les articles
de ce site (écrits généralement dans un francais rudimentaire)
ne sont pas commentés de notre part. Ils peuvent contenir des propos
négationnistes envers le génocide arménien ou d’autres informations
a prendre sous toute réserve. “” Les parties doivent mettre une
volonté et confier a l’OSCE. A mon avis, le plus important, c’est la
confiance mutuelle entre les parties en litige ” a indiqué pour la
Radio Liberté, Le représentant du Président en exercice de l’OSCE
pour les conflits gelés Gedryus Chekuolis”.

L’ancien chef de l’armée serbe Perisic condamné par le TPIY Le
Tribunal pénal international pour l’ex-Yougoslavie (TPIY) a condamné
mardi l’ancien chef d’état-major de l’armée serbe Momcilo Perisic
a 27 ans de prison pour meurtre, persécution et attaques sur des
civils en Bosnie et en Croatie dans les années 1990.

L’info vue par la TRT (6) Le Collectif VAN vous propose cet article
publié sur la TRT (Télévision & Radio de Turquie). Les articles
de ce site ne sont pas commentés de notre part. Ils peuvent contenir
des propos négationnistes envers le génocide arménien ou d’autres
informations a prendre sous toute réserve. “Le Premier ministre
Erdogan qui est arrivé a Istanbul a la suite de la fête du Ramadan,
a réalisé un entretien avec le roi du Bahreïn Hamad bin İssa
Al-Khalifa”.

Karabakh: le Kremlin était impuissant face a la crise Il y a 20 ans,
le 2 septembre 1991, a Stepanakert, la capitale du Haut-Karabakh,
s’est tenue une session conjointe des Soviets de la région du
Haut-Karabakh et du district de Chahoumian. Les participants a la
réunion ont adopté la Déclaration sur la proclamation de la
République du Haut-Karabakh dans les frontières de la région
autonome du Haut-Karabakh, du district de Chahoumian et d’une partie
du district de Khanlar.

Guerre de Bosnie : 27 ans de prison pour l’ex-chef de l’armée
yougoslave L’ex-chef d’état-major de l’armée yougoslave Momcilo
Perisic a été condamné mardi a 27 ans de prison par le Tribunal
pénal international pour l’ex-Yougoslavie (TPIY) pour son rôle
dans le siège de Sarajevo, le bombardement de Zagreb et le massacre
de Srebrenica.

Dépêche de l’APA [ 06 sept 2011 13:58 ] – Agence de Presse
d’Azerbaïdjan Le Collectif VAN vous propose un article de l’APA
(Agende de presse azérie) daté du 6 septembre 2011. Les articles
de ce site (écrits généralement dans un francais rudimentaire)
ne sont pas commentés de notre part. Ils peuvent contenir des propos
négationnistes envers le génocide arménien ou d’autres informations
a prendre sous toute réserve. “Les chefs de la diplomatie francaise
Alain Juppé et russe Serguei Lavrov discuteront mercredi a Moscou,
le règlement du conflit de Haut-Karabagh, rapporte l’APA, citant
Ria Novosti”.

L’info vue par la TRT (5) Le Collectif VAN vous propose cet article
publié sur la TRT (Télévision & Radio de Turquie). Les articles
de ce site ne sont pas commentés de notre part. Ils peuvent contenir
des propos négationnistes envers le génocide arménien ou d’autres
informations a prendre sous toute réserve. “La Turquie a informé
IsraÔl par les voies officielles sur les décisions prises a l’issue
du rapport sur l’assaut contre le navire “Mavi Marmara”.

Le torchon brÔle entre Ankara et Tel-Aviv Selon un rapport de l’ONU
sur la flottille, le blocus de Gaza est légitime. Colère turque. La
Turquie a décidé d’expulser l’ambassadeur d’IsraÔl et de geler les
relations militaires, pourtant très avancées, en guise de sanctions
face au refus d’IsraÔl de présenter des excuses après le raid
contre la flottille d’aide humanitaire a destination de Gaza qui,
l’an dernier, avait coÔté la vie a neuf Turcs.

Dépêche de l’APA [ 06 sept 2011 11:47 ] – Agence de Presse
d’Azerbaïdjan Le Collectif VAN vous propose un article de l’APA
(Agende de presse azérie) daté du 6 septembre 2011. Les articles
de ce site (écrits généralement dans un francais rudimentaire)
ne sont pas commentés de notre part. Ils peuvent contenir des
propos négationnistes envers le génocide arménien ou d’autres
informations a prendre sous toute réserve. “Quant au règlement du
conflit de Haut-Karabagh, nous avons déclaré a plusieurs reprises
qu’il n’existe une formule très simple – le règlement du conflit
dans le cadre du droit international”.

Luc Chatel : “Que Claude Lanzmann se rassure” “La Shoah ne devait
avoir ni survivant, ni témoin, ni récit.” Par ces mots, Simone
Veil ouvre le livret Mémoire et histoire de la Shoah a l’école,
adressé par le ministère de l’éducation nationale a chaque école
élémentaire de notre pays a l’automne 2008.

L’info vue par la TRT (4) Le Collectif VAN vous propose cet article
publié sur la TRT (Télévision & Radio de Turquie). Les articles
de ce site ne sont pas commentés de notre part. Ils peuvent contenir
des propos négationnistes envers le génocide arménien ou d’autres
informations a prendre sous toute réserve. “Le Premier ministre
Recep Tayyip Erdogan a évalué les derniers développements vécus
avec IsraÔl son cabinet aux Affaires étrangères”.

Dépêche de l’APA [ 05 sept 2011 14:55 ] – Agence de Presse
d’Azerbaïdjan Le Collectif VAN vous propose un article de l’APA
(Agende de presse azérie) daté du 5 septembre 2011. Les articles
de ce site (écrits généralement dans un francais rudimentaire)
ne sont pas commentés de notre part. Ils peuvent contenir des propos
négationnistes envers le génocide arménien ou d’autres informations
a prendre sous toute réserve. “L’Observatoire international des
prisons (OIP) a indiqué que l’arménien Arthur Badalian a fait une
requête a la Cour Européenne des droits de l’Homme (CEDH) contre
l’Azerbaïdjan, a indiqué pour l’APA, Elcin Behbudov, chef du Comité
azerbaïdjanais pour la prévention de la torture”.

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Issy-Les-Moulineaux : Le Collectif VAN Au Forum De Rentree 2011

ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX : LE COLLECTIF VAN AU FORUM DE RENTREE 2011

Collectif VAN

06-09-2011

Vendredi 9 septembre 2011 de 14h a 21h, et samedi 10 septembre de 10h
a 20h, près de 200 associations seront presentes au Palais des Sports
Robert Charpentier pour le Forum de rentree d’Issy-les-Moulineaux. Un
evenement incontournable qui permet aux Isseens de decouvrir
les activites culturelles, de loisirs et sportives ou encore de
s’engager en tant que benevoles. Pour la seconde annee consecutive,
le Collectif VAN [Vigilance Armenienne contre le Negationnisme] sera
present lors de ce Forum de rentree : deux jours places sous le signe
de la decouverte et de l’engagement. L’association mène des actions de
sensibilisation aux genocides et a leur negation. Elle lutte contre
le negationnisme, le racisme et l’antisemitisme, avec le soutien de
nombreuses associations des droits de l’homme. Le Collectif VAN vous
attend sur son stand situe dans le Secteur O, Palais des Sports Robert
Charpentier – 4/6, boulevard des Frères Voisin, Issy-les-Moulineaux.

Forum de rentree : deux jours pour rencontrer les associations
isseennes!

Vendredi 9 de 14h a 21h, et samedi 10 septembre de 10h a 20h, près
de 200 associations seront presentes au Palais des Sports Robert
Charpentier. Un evenement incontournable qui permet aux Isseens
de decouvrir s’inscrire aux activites culturelles, de loisirs et
sportives ou encore de s’engager en tant que benevoles! Dossier
complet a telecharger

Le Forum de rentree regroupe toutes les informations necessaires pour
vous inscrire aux activites culturelles, sportives et de loisirs,
de vous engager en tant que benevoles dans les associations ou bien
encore soutenir des actions solidaires. Il y en a pour toutes les
envies, toutes les passions et tous les quartiers. Ce rendez-vous
constitue une veritable vitrine de la vie associative isseenne. Nota
CVAN : pour la seconde annee consecutive, le Collectif VAN [Vigilance
Armenienne contre le Negationnisme] sera present lors de ce Forum
de rentree : deux jours places sous le signe de la decouverte et de
l’engagement. L’association mène des actions de sensibilisation aux
genocides et a leur negation. Elle lutte contre le negationnisme, le
racisme et l’antisemitisme, avec le soutien de nombreuses associations
des droits de l’homme. Le Collectif VAN vous attend sur son stand
situe dans le Secteur O.

Decouvrez egalement, en avant-première, les nouvelles publications
de la Ville (le guide pratique 2011-2012, la nouvelle edition du
CRI, des guides des sports et de l’ecole a Issy…), ainsi que les
evenements et les grands rendez-vous de cette nouvelle saison.

Engagez-vous !

L’edition 2011 du Forum est placee sous le signe de l’engagement
benevole a l’occasion de l’annee europeenne du benevolat et du
volontariat.

La Ville met cette annee a l’honneur ceux qui agissent au quotidien.

Decouvrez ainsi des portraits de benevoles isseens emblematiques
au travers de l’exposition photographique ” Les benevoles d’Issy
“, realisee par les deux clubs de photos de la Ville, Zoom 92130 et
127 bis.

Quel que soit votre âge, vous pouvez egalement trouver un certain
nombre d’informations sur les possibilites de s’engager benevolement
sur Issy.

~U Pour etre benevole a Issy Le Centre Isseen du Benevolat (CIB)
est l’association qui vous accompagne et vous conseille dans vos
demarches. Retrouvez sur son stand toutes les offres et missions
du moment proposees par les associations et decouvrez le passeport
benevole qui vous permet de valoriser vos engagements benevoles dans
votre parcours professionnel.

~U Le service civique Il offre l’opportunite aux jeunes de 16 a 25
ans de s’engager en faveur d’un projet d’interet collectif Le jeune
effectue une mission d’interet general auprès d’une association ou
d’une structure publique pour 6 a 12 mois en France ou a l’etranger,
tout en etant indemnise.

~U Les Juniors Associations Vous avez moins de 18 ans et vous souhaitez
creer un groupe de danse, partir en vacances tout seul, creer un
spectacle de rue ou encore creer un journal ou proteger la nature ? Les
” Juniors Associations ” permettent aux mineurs de s’organiser et de
realiser leurs projets en decouvrant la dynamique associative.

~U Le livret de competences Il permet aux collegiens volontaires de
recevoir une attestation des competences demontrees lors de leurs
activites periscolaires au collège ou extrascolaires. Ce dispositif
coordonne par le CLAVIM s’etend dès la rentree aux activites de
l’Asti, du Cube, de l’Entente Pongiste Isseenne, de l’Espace Icare,
d’Issy Triathlon et du Tennis Club de Beauvoir. Veritable complement
au livret scolaire, il met en valeur les points forts du jeune et
contribue eventuellement a son orientation scolaire.

EN SAVOIR PLUS

Palais des Sports Robert Charpentier – 4/6, boulevard des Frères Voisin

Voir et telecharger le dossier complet du Forum ici

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Les Bombes Pleuvent Sur Les Kurdes Dans L’Indifference Generale

LES BOMBES PLEUVENT SUR LES KURDES DANS L’INDIFFERENCE GENERALE

Collectif VAN

07-09-2011

Le Collectif vous soumet ici l’article de Gerard Alle et d’Andre
Metayer sur la situation des kurdes publie sur Rue89 le 4 septembre
2011.

Rue89

Par Gerard Alle et Andre Metayer | Amities kurdes de Bretagne |
04/09/2011 | 23H46

Pauvres Kurdes ! Quarante millions de personnes ecartelees entre la
Turquie, l’Irak, l’Iran et la Syrie. Et l’on apprend que l’Iran et
la Turquie semblent soudain decides a oublier leurs divergences pour
se debarrasser d’un ennemi commun : la resistance armee kurde.

L’offensive se poursuit, dans l’indifference generale.

Depuis quelques mois, la Republique islamique d’Iran s’est lancee dans
une repression feroce des militants kurdes du PJAK (Parti pour une vie
libre au Kurdistan), qui a conduit a la pendaison de nombre d’entre
eux, tandis que d’autres, a l’heure actuelle, attendent leur execution.

Mais que cherche vraiment l’Iran ? Le principal enjeu strategique,
dans le secteur, est la region autonome du Kurdistan irakien, dont
les ressources petrolières attisent les convoitises.

Offensive conjointe

Or, l’armee terrestre iranienne tente, depuis le 16 juillet, de
deloger les forces du PKK (Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan),
allies du PJAK, des monts Qandil, region montagneuse du nord de l’Irak,
reputee impenetrable. Une partie des forces du PKK, soit plusieurs
milliers de combattants restes fidèles au chef de la resistance kurde
Abdullah Ocalan, a trouve refuge dans ces montagnes, a la suite d’une
impitoyable guerre asymetrique entre rebelles kurdes et armee turque.

Celle-ci fit 45 000 morts et fut marquee par la destruction imputable
aux forces turques de 3 000 villages, entraînant l’exode de plus d’un
million de personnes.

Les commandos des forces speciales turques appuient l’operation
militaire iranienne lancee cet ete, et l’aviation turque bombarde
sans relâche la region depuis le 17 août, avec l’accord et l’aide
technique de l’Otan et des Etats-Unis, et ce, sans le moindre egard
pour les populations civiles.

L’actuel chef d’etat-major de l’armee turque, le general Necdet Ozel,
inspire les pires craintes, lui qui est surnomme ” Necdet le chimique ”
depuis qu’il est soupconne d’avoir employe des armes chimiques contre
les combattants du PKK en 1999, dans la region de Sirnak.

Le gouvernement irakien a proteste avec un certain retard contre ce
qu’il considère comme une violation de sa souverainete par la Turquie,
qu’il accuse de ” bombarder les zones frontalières irakiennes en
ciblant des civils innocents “.

Dans le meme temps, les medias turcs proches du gouvernement Erdogan
evoquent un scenario a la sri-lankaise, en reference a l’operation
militaire qui eradiqua la rebellion tamoule dans un grand bain de sang.

La reaction des Kurdes de Turquie

La reaction des Kurdes de Turquie ne s’est pas fait attendre. Les
populations, avec a leur tete les maires, conseillers regionaux et
deputes, se sont massees a la frontière turco-irakienne avec la ferme
intention de se rendre dans les regions bombardees pour y former un
bouclier humain.

Des heurts très violents avec la troupe se sont soldes par de
nombreux blesses. Un elu, Yildirim Ayhan, conseil regional de Van,
a ete tue d’une balle en pleine poitrine a Cukurca. Ses funerailles
ont donne lieu a de nouveaux heurts avec la police, qui a charge dans
le cimetière et disperse la foule a l’aide de grenades lacrymogènes.

Les manifestations se succèdent dans les regions kurdes et non kurdes
de Turquie. Une manifestation aux flambeaux s’est deroulee dans
plusieurs quartiers d’Istanbul, aux cris de ” vive Apo ” (surnom usuel
d’Ocalan). Ce dernier, toujours prisonnier sur une île de la mer Noire
et condamne a la prison a vie, est souvent considere un dangereux
ideologue marxiste-leniniste, mais il est facile de constater qu’il
reste un heros pour l’immense majorite des Kurdes de Turquie, qui le
comparent meme parfois a De Gaulle.

Dans les prisons turques, des detenus politiques ont commence une
grève de la faim ” illimitee “. Les reseaux sociaux se mobilisent,
comme a Londres et a Rome, où les ” Twitterkurds ” ont appele a
manifester contre les raids aeriens au-dessus du Kurdistan irakien.

Le BDP (Parti pour la Paix et la Democratie), parti social-democrate
kurde qui est sorti renforce des elections legislatives de juin
dernier, va tenir son Congrès debut septembre. Au cours de celui-ci,
il devrait affirmer le concept ” d’autonomie democratique dans une
republique democratique “, defini le 14 juillet dernier, par le DTK
(plateforme d’associations et mouvements kurdes dont le BDP est
membre).

L’intergroupe parlementaire belge pour la question kurde va se reunir
a Bruxelles le 6 septembre et le groupe d’amities kurdes au Parlement
europeen se retrouvera le 15 septembre a Strasbourg. Mais le temps
presse !

Leyla Zana appelle a l’aide

Leyla Zana, deputee de Diyarbakir – qui se vit jadis decerner le
Prix Sakharov par le Parlement europeen – fut condamnee, en 1995, a
15 ans de prison pour avoir ose prononcer au parlement turc des mots
kurdes appelant a la paix et a reconciliation. Elle vient d’ecrire une
lettre a tous les grands de ce monde pour denoncer l’option militaire
et s’etonner du silence des democraties occidentales a ce sujet.

Rappelons d’autre part que 151 elus kurdes sont juges a Diyarbakir pour
leurs liens presumes avec une organisation terroriste, en l’occurrence
le PKK. Ce dernier a en effet ete couche par les Etats-Unis sur la
liste des organisations terroristes, liste que l’Union europeenne
s’est empressee d’adopter.

Qu’on eprouve ou non de la sympathie pour sa lutte et pour son chef,
le PKK procède a des attaques ciblees contre des militaires ou des
policiers turcs, et ne s’est – jusqu’a preuve du contraire – jamais
attaque a la population civile. A plusieurs reprises, des agents des
forces speciales turques ont ete surpris en train de preparer des
attentats en vue de les voir attribuer aux rebelles kurdes.

La situation est rendue d’autant plus complexe que nombre de
familles kurdes ont des parents dans la guerilla. Et de toute facon,
la population est solidaire de ces combattants, ne serait-ce qu’au nom
de la repression subie durant tant d’annees, des viols, de la torture,
des humiliations et de tout ce qui a fait des Kurdes des citoyens de
seconde zone, en Turquie.

C’est donc toujours la solution militaire qui prevaut a Ankara
pour resoudre la question kurde, malgre les promesses d’Erdogan
de rechercher une solution politique. Faute de loi d’amnistie pour
les combattants, par exemple, ceux-ci ne peuvent rentrer chez eux,
risquant la prison a vie, voire la torture et l’assassinat, qui sont
monnaie courante dans les geôles turques.

Le silence de l’Occident

Le silence de l’Occident et des medias a propos de ce qui se passe en
Turquie peut etonner. Deja, dans les annees 1990, lorsqu’une centaine
de prisonniers d’extreme-gauche poursuivirent jusqu’a la mort leurs
grèves de la faim, cela n’emut guère, en tout cas beaucoup moins que
lorsque Bobby Sands et ses camarades perdirent la vie pour les memes
raisons, en Irlande du Nord.

Pourquoi les recentes arrestations massives de militants culturels
kurdes, en Europe, pourquoi ces vieillards jetes violemment au sol par
les policiers de nos pays ? Pourquoi ces etranges reunions regulières
entre policiers turcs, americains, francais, allemands ? Pourquoi ce
silence de nos medias a propos de la brutalite de ce regime ?

Parce que certains considèrent le parti majoritaire en Turquie,
l’AKP (Parti pour la justice et le developpement), comme une sorte
de democratie chretienne version islamique, et veulent miser sur lui ?

Mais ce choix strategique implique-t-il le sacrifice du peuple kurde ?

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