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*Kurds
need American Reassurances
Before
Joining Campaign Against Saddam
*Final
Goodbye from a
Kurdish
activist
*Why Kurds have no state of their own
*The Time Is Running Out For Iraqi Kurds
*The question of Kurdish and the ostrich mentality
*Interview
with WKI President Dr. Najmaldin Karim at End of Visit to Kurdistan
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Letter to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan
THE KURDISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CALIFORNIA February 19, 2002
Dear Mr. Secretary-General: The Kurdish Community of California is deeply concerned about the continuous violations of human rights in Turkey. In the past month, Turkey has arrested hundreds of Kurdish Students for petitioning to be educated in their mother tongue, Kurdish. Your Excellency, Kurds have been victims of oppression in their homeland for many years. It is no longer a hidden truth to the world that Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria have been savagely oppressing the Kurds. In Turkey, thousands of Kurdish cities and villages have been destroyed; more than two million Kurds have been displaced. The use of Kurdish language in education and broadcasting is forbidden. According to the International Human Rights organizations, Turkey has the world’s most heinous Human Rights record. Despite all these injustice, hundreds of Kurdish Students have been arrested over the past month for petitioning to be educated in Kurdish. Numerous journalists, writers and publishers have been imprisoned for expressing their thoughts. This violates Articles 1, 2, 3, 9, 15, 18, 19, 26, 27, and 30 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and various articles of the convention on Civil and Political Rights, to which Turkey is a signatory. Your Excellency, It is of crucial significance that Turkey would respect the Universal Declaration of Human rights and the UN Charters. The recognition of the inherent dignity, and of the equal and undeniable rights of all human kind is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. The need is legitimate and appropriate. We are confident that you and your administration will work sympathetically
towards all the oppressed nations including the Kurds.
Sincerely,
1109 EAST WASHINGTON AVE. • EL CAJON, CA • 92019
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