France remains silent about Paris killings
France remains silent about Paris killings
France remains silent about Paris killings
666 days have passed over the execution of Sakine Cansız, a founding member of the PKK (Kurdistan Worker's Party); Fidan Doğan, representative of the KNK (Kurdistan National Congress) in Paris; and Leyla Şaylemez, member of the Kurdish youth movement, in the French capital Paris on 9 January 2013.
Light is yet to be shed on the murder of the three Kurdish women and the powers behind the killings.
Weekly Wednesday protests demanding justice for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla continued in front of the Democratic Kurdish Society Centre this week.
Carrying the photographs of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez, and chanting the slogan “Jin, Jiyan Azadi” [Women, Life, Freedom], demonstrators once again demanded justice from the French state which -they underlined- continued to remain silent about the killings because of its economic and political interests.
During the march to the Kurdistan Information Office, where the three women were executed, demonstrators distributed leaflets providing information about the killings and the demands highlighted by the Kurdish people.
One minute's silence outside the Kurdistan Information Office was followed by a short statement on behalf of the Kurdish Women's Movement which stressed that the French state's failure to disclose the truth on the killings was a shame of democracy and human rights for France.
The statement on behalf of demonstrators emphasised that; "Those who killed Sakine, Fidan and Leyla are pointing the HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) as a target now, slitting Ahmet Karataş's throat, and targeting Kurdish parties, establishments and persons."
Remarking that the French state has yet to answer the Kurdish people's demand for justice for the Kurdish women executed in its capital, the statement stressed that Kurdish people will never end pursuing this case until justice is done.