Kurdish National Congress condemns Roboski massacre
Kurdish National Congress condemns Roboski massacre
The Kurdish National Congress (KNK) has condemned the massacre by Turkish warplanes in the village of Roboski on 28 December which left 35 civilians dead.
"Turkish warplanes bombed Roboski village. - reads the statement - 24 of those killed belonged to the same family. A villager who escaped the air attack wounded said that the bombs thrown sucked the air away and left them breathless, spread an acidic smell and burnt them. Other villagers - continues the statement - who hid under a large rock to escape, were crushed by the rock said the villager. Another villager said that Turkish soldiers had apprehended them only moments before the attack and then had moved away. The bodies of 35 civilians have been found while the corpses of others are still to be discovered because of the obliteration caused by the bombing".
The KNK reaffirms in the statement its condemnation of the massacre and poses the question "Who is going to say “stop” to the Turkish state and AKP government bombing their civilian citizens?"
A question, argues the KNK which needs to be posed as this is the same "state and government which only days ago massacred Kurdish guerrillas using chemical weapons and irreparably damaged the nature of Kurdistan, however not a single international body has criticized them. Now the same state and government, taking confidence from this silence have massacred civilians. If this is not an attempt at genocide then what is it?"
The question goes to those states which are actually selling weapons to Turkey. But the KNK also asks the United Nation and human rights organizations what are they "going to do about this? Are they going to implement universal human rights norms to Turkey?"
And again "What are the states that view the intervention to Middle Eastern states on human rights grounds as legitimate going to do against the Turkish states use of arms against civilians?"
Because, the KNK underlines, "On one hand the Turkish state is arresting civilians, politicians, lawyers, intellectuals and children, more than 5000 people in total, on the other they are massacring Kurdish civilians. This openly shows that there is a systematic plan to break the will of a people by different forms of violence".
The Kurdistan National Congress ends its statement with a call "on international public opinion, democratic NGOs, and other democratic international organizations to condemn the actions of the Turkish state. Furthermore we are calling on the EU and US as well as all other states to begin an arms embargo and freeze all their relations with Turkey".
"Turkish warplanes bombed Roboski village. - reads the statement - 24 of those killed belonged to the same family. A villager who escaped the air attack wounded said that the bombs thrown sucked the air away and left them breathless, spread an acidic smell and burnt them. Other villagers - continues the statement - who hid under a large rock to escape, were crushed by the rock said the villager. Another villager said that Turkish soldiers had apprehended them only moments before the attack and then had moved away. The bodies of 35 civilians have been found while the corpses of others are still to be discovered because of the obliteration caused by the bombing".
The KNK reaffirms in the statement its condemnation of the massacre and poses the question "Who is going to say “stop” to the Turkish state and AKP government bombing their civilian citizens?"
A question, argues the KNK which needs to be posed as this is the same "state and government which only days ago massacred Kurdish guerrillas using chemical weapons and irreparably damaged the nature of Kurdistan, however not a single international body has criticized them. Now the same state and government, taking confidence from this silence have massacred civilians. If this is not an attempt at genocide then what is it?"
The question goes to those states which are actually selling weapons to Turkey. But the KNK also asks the United Nation and human rights organizations what are they "going to do about this? Are they going to implement universal human rights norms to Turkey?"
And again "What are the states that view the intervention to Middle Eastern states on human rights grounds as legitimate going to do against the Turkish states use of arms against civilians?"
Because, the KNK underlines, "On one hand the Turkish state is arresting civilians, politicians, lawyers, intellectuals and children, more than 5000 people in total, on the other they are massacring Kurdish civilians. This openly shows that there is a systematic plan to break the will of a people by different forms of violence".
The Kurdistan National Congress ends its statement with a call "on international public opinion, democratic NGOs, and other democratic international organizations to condemn the actions of the Turkish state. Furthermore we are calling on the EU and US as well as all other states to begin an arms embargo and freeze all their relations with Turkey".
