The KCK Executive Council Co-presidency has issued a written statement on the 27th anniversary of the Halabja Massacre in which it condemned the forces that perpetrated the massacre of 5,000 Kurds with chemical weapons.
The KCK Executive Council Co-presidency has issued a written statement condemning those who perpetrated the Halabja Massacre of 16 March 1988, saying: “The Kurdish people and our freedom struggle will continue our determined fight against the forces that aim to carry out a genocide like that of Halabja, and realise a free and democratic Kurdistan where such massacres will never again take place.”
The KCK Executive Council Co-presidency has issued a written statement on the 27th anniversary of the Halabja Massacre in which it condemned the forces that perpetrated the massacre of 5,000 Kurds with chemical weapons. Remarking that this massacre carried out by the Saddam regime demonstrated the merciless policy of the colonialist forces in the region to the Kurdish people, KCK said; “Those who remained silent as chemical bombs rained down on the Kurds in Halabja only put the massacre on their agendas a few years later when it suited their political interests. This showed that when it comes to the Kurds, international powers are able to ignore all human values if it suits their interests.”
According to the KCK, the failure to support the Kurdish Mahabad Republic in 1946, the silence over the Dersim genocide of 1938 and the lack of reaction to the Qamishli massacre ten years ago have played a key role in the Kurds becoming conscious of the policies of regional and international forces. The Kurds -it continued- have realised that freedom and a democratic life can only be attained through resistance and organisation, and have deveolped their struggle accordingly.
KCK stressed that the level of awareness, organisation and struggle achieved by the Kurds today is able to prevent new Halabjas, and means freedom in all four parts is closer than ever. The statement continued; “The struggle being waged in Kurdistan has reached a level where it is playing a leading role in ensuring the free and democratic life of all the peoples of the Middle East, not just that of the Kurds. The Kurdish people and our freedom struggle as a whole will continue our determined fight against the forces that aim to perpetrate a genocide like that of Halabja, and realise a free and democratic Kurdistan where such massacres will never happen again.”
