Today's Topics:
1. fda-ifa.org: Turkey, DBP member and People’s Assembly co-chair murdered in Silopi (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Alternative Current #256, January 2016 - Summary and editorial (fr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #256 (Dec) - Kurdistan: YPG have they committed war crimes? (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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It came out that DBP Assembly member Sêvê Demir, Silopi People’s Assembly co-chair Pakize Nay'r and KJA activist Fatma Uyar are among the four people murdered by state forces in S*rnak’s Silopi district yesterday. Body of another slain civilian is yet to be identified. ---- The four people were killed as state forces opened heavy and random fire on civilian settlements in Kars*yaka neighborhood for hours late yesterday evening. The aggression has also left many wounded. ---- Casualties have been revealed only after the bodies of four slain civilians were brought to Silopi State Hospital earlier today. ---- HDP S?rnak deputies Aycan Irmez and Ferhat Encü, and HDP Silopi branch co-chair Aycan Azma were hindered by state forces with armored vehicles as they wanted to go Silopi State Hospital after the delivery of the four bodies to the morgue. Three bodies were sent to S'rnak State Hospital’s morgue this evening. HDP S?rnak MP Leyla Birlik and Urfa MP Ibrahim Ayhan who had a talk with the prosecutor confirmed that bodies belonged to DBP Assembly member Sêvê Demir, Silopi People’s Assembly co-chair Pakize Nay?r and KJA activist Fatma Uyar. Body of the other civilian, who is a man, couldn’t be identified yet as his face unrecognizable. As many as 37 people have been taken into custody in Silopi district of S?rnak where onslaught by Turkish forces against the areas of self-rule continues for 23 days. While state forces are forcing and threatening the people to leave the town where they couldn’t break the popular resistance yet, dozens were forcibly expelled from Sehit Harun neighborhood and are being held at indoor sports facility in Yenisehir neighborhood now. Among these people who all were subjected to criminal record check, a total of 37 people including DIHA (Dicle News Agency) reporter Nedim Oruç have been taken into custody. It was not immediately clear where the detainees were taken to. In the meantime, over 20 people who were similarly expelled from Barbaros neighborhood and detained yesterday, have reportedly been taken to Silopi Courthouse. In Silopi district of S*rnak where a state of siege continues for 23 days, bodies of four slain civilians have been brought to Silopi State Hospital. Bodies reportedly belong to civilians from Kars*yaka neighborhood where state forces opened heavy and random fire on civilian settlements for hours late yesterday evening. The aggression has also left many wounded. HDP S*rnak deputies Aycan Irmez and Ferhat Encü and HDP Silopi branch co-chair Aycan Azma were hindered by state forces with armored vehicles as they wanted to go Silopi State Hospital after the delivery of the four bodies to the morgue. Ferhat Encü said they were stopped and surrounded by hundreds of soldiers and armored vehicles before reaching the hospital to learn about the identities of casualties and take care of the wounded. “The hospital is encircled at the moment and we are not allowed to move. We do not know what they are hiding there”, he said. SIRNAK State forces blockaded and attacked S*rnak’s central Dicle neighborhood where popular resistance for self-rule continues. While the gunfire opened by police from armored vehicles left two civilians in the neighborhood dead, local units of self-defense responded to the attacks. Bodies of slain residents remain at the scene since last night as intensified aggression by state forces continues. Masses that started to walk to the neighborhood after the attack were also targeted by police. http://fda-ifa.org/dbp-member-and-peoples-assembly-co-chair-murdered-in-silopi-2/ ------------------------------
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Summary ---- PAGE 3 EDITORIAL ---- ECOLOGY ---- PAGE 4 The COP in Paris: the show was a success ---- PAGE 5 Within the convoy's view of the motorized convoy ---- PAGE 6 COP 21, wandering between Versailles and Paris ---- PAGE 8 NDDL: Anti-Airport on deck ---- PAGE 9 From local to global, it is crucial for the Capital ---- PAGE 11 bins pucées ... ---- CONS TO TRAP ---- PAGE 13 regional elections, the big lure ---- SOCIAL ---- PAGE 15 For transnational social strike ---- PAGE 17 Some thoughts on social strike ---- PAGE 19 What plays SOUTH Poste? ---- REPRESSION ---- PAGE 20 police state ---- PAGE 23 To those who believe themselves free: a convict of life, a life of struggle ---- PAGE 26 BIG BROTHER ---- REFLECTIONS ---- PAGE 28 tracks for a wearer social change of emancipation ---- page 31 THE ECONOMY IN BRIEF ---- PAGE 32 Paris January 17th, concert in support of Alternative Current Editorial 2016: another new year began badly! We wanted to wish you lots of good things, but the heart is not really. Indeed, we can not manifest the past month and a half, and public space is filled with colorful little men, but not in red and without beards (whether white or not)! In blue or khaki uniforms and armed to the teeth, they "secure" places their martial bearing, and possibly seeking lice to those who do not deserve. If one adds to that the ability of police and gendarmes to invite in people at any time of day or night, of course smashing the door, it is not surprising multiplication alarming "slippage" -like like to say the mediators that the state of emergency continues to generate (see "police state" p.20). While the search waves have not given much in the final (only two preliminary hearings for judges "anti-terrorist"), heavy prison sentences have already fallen under various pretexts: for example, five months for farms a failed score because of a training internship. Anyway, state of emergency or not, prisons have not finished filling. And these are not reforms sham Taubira, Minister of Justice, which reversed the trend! (see "To those who believe themselves free" p.23). We take this opportunity to wish anyway good luck to embastillés and other private of freedom, in particular minors who do not spend Christmas with their families or friends. But for others the year ended well, such as Holland for climbing in the polls. When fear wins, the tendency to get behind the protective father is mostly widespread. And to assert the protecting power nothing like a state of emergency. It is not clear if that has any effect on the real terrorists (who use terror as a political weapon) but we quickly realized that it was an excellent law enforcement means. Ban on demonstrations, house arrest, that which helped curb the challenge to the COP21; and to perfect everything, for the more adventurous, the beatings, gassings, mass arrests or summonses. It's so much a state of emergency that power had only a haste, that of longer life waiting to enroll in the Constitution. But fortunately it did not stop the protest against the COP21 to exist, through demonstrations, marches, on foot, by bike backhoe, etc. (see p.6 and p.8). This COP -which took place without great agitation through the state of emergency- has ultimately led to anything concrete right, according to what might be expected (see p.4). Yet this does not prevent the French government for complacency on the international stage. The same government was less pleased after the regional early December. After using the National Front as a scarecrow, and played in the background map "republican front", the PS lost about half of the regions it controlled (see p.13). To those who regret that after the streets and train stations, this is the map of France that turns blue or navy blue that seems to strengthen again and again we meet in France about six in ten adults do not vote and not the social changes do not come out of the ballot box. Similarly, the transformation of the world will not go through elections, but rather by various methods and ideas initiated by the persons concerned and not by those who run them (see p.28). In particular struggles (see p.15), and on this side there is hope that 2016 helps us to escape the gloom! http://www.oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article1788 ------------------------------
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The Amnesty International report accusing the Kurdish militia abuses in Tal-Abyad region interviewed support the Kurdish left, including AL. This required an examination. ---- During October, an Amnesty International report has made some noise in the movement of solidarity with Kurdistan, accusing them of YPG "war crimes". YPG is the militia of the Kurdish left Syria rejected the Islamic State during the siege of Ayn al-Arab, which defends the Rojava it Rojava venue of a revolutionary process based on self-management, the gender equality and freedom for all ethnic and religious groups (Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen, Assyrian-Chaldeans, Armenians, Yazidis...). Alternative Libertaire is engaged in critical support to the Kurdish left, which supposes to remain vigilant. Suffice to say that the charges Amnesty International deserved close scrutiny. This NGO is independent effect. Its reports on human rights spare neither Turkey nor France, nor the United States nor Russia... One of his teams investigated in Tal-Abyad region in summer 2015. The report is well documented (testimonies, photos, videos), and establishes that the inhabitants and the inhabitants of ten Arab villages in the Tal-Abyad region were moved es force, and their homes destroyed by the YPG [1 ]. However, Amnesty concludes, "any forced displacement in the absence of a military imperative is a violation of international humanitarian law". Obviously, it is far massacres, rapes and looting that the term "war crime" could leave imagine, and light years of atrocities Daech. A British volunteer for YPG, Macer Gifford, immediately published an open letter to the NGO to be indignant [2]. From the water to the mill of the Ankara regime However, without denying the facts, the command of YPG responded. Yes, there was indeed a "military necessity" due to the proximity of the front line: the villagers had to move either to their own safety, or because they were collaborating with Daech and it was dangerous to keep them on his rear. The report also brought water to the mill of the Ankara regime, which claims that Kurdish militias are of ethnic cleansing in Syria. In these calumnies - refuted by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights [3] - a commander of YPG, Sipan Hemo, replied that they are fighting today in about 30% of Arab militia [4] which guarantees self against possible abuses revanchist [5].. The allegations are proven to YPG, but seem so decontextualized. They are certainly not such as to call into question a largely justified support. The Tal-Abyad area is particularly strategic: by capturing the city in June 2015, YPG ensured the junction of two Kurdish cantons Kobanî and Cizîrê. They also cut the main road of trafficking Daech to Turkey, and now threaten Raqqa, the capital of the caliphate. Guillaume Davranche (AL Montreuil) [1] "Syria:" We had nowhere to go '. Forced demolitions and displacement in Northern Syria ", Report of October 12, 2015. [2] "Open Letter to Amnesty UK From YPG Volunteer" Kurdishquestion.com, October 14, 2015. [3] "Interview with Rami Abdulrahman of SOHR", Kurdishquestion.com, July 2, 2015. [4] "YPG General Commander Hemo is Syrian Democratic Force, US Weapons & Amnesty Report", Civiroglu.net, October 16, 2015. [5] In the 1960s, the Syrian Arab Kurdistan has undergone a settlement policy leading to dispossession of land and a discrimination system. http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Kurdistan-Les-YPG-ont-ils-commis ------------------------------
