Long march on day 4: No to rape culture

"No to rape culture" is the motto of the fourth stage of the long march for Abdullah Öcalan's freedom from Hanover to Hamburg which continues on day 4.

The fourth day of the long march for freedom of Abdullah Öcalan is staged under the motto "No to rape culture". The six-day demonstration started on Saturday in Hanover and ends next Friday in Hamburg.

After a commemoration in front of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and a protest action in front of the Rheinmetall armaments company in Unterlüß, yesterday's program ended with a film about the martyrs of the Kurdish liberation struggle. Among other things, it dealt with the lives of Tîjda Ekecik (Fatma Yağmur), who had joined the guerrilla from the Netherlands in 2013 and died in September 2016 in the Zagros Mountains in the fight against the Turkish army, and of Baran Mawa (Ali Oncü), who died in July 2018 in Hakkari.

The demonstration resumed today at ten o'clock in Bad Bevensen. At the beginning, the participants made a statement in which they condemned the racist attack against Kurdish harvest workers in Sakarya in western Turkey and called for a fight against fascism.

Afterwards, the participates declared their support to the campaign "Em dibêjin NA!" (We say NO) that was started in Southern Kurdistan: "We are not only threatened by physical rape in everyday life, but we are also exposed to social and spiritual rape. Nature is also raped. In today's age, which we define as 'capitalist modernity', there is a culture of rape that is directed first and foremost against women.”

The demonstrators will spend the night in Lüneburg. In the evening an event on the topic of "Social Sexism" is on the program. On Wednesday the tour will continue to Winsen/Luhe. The last stop before Hamburg is Harburg.