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Turkey-Kurdistan: Semdinli- Uprise Against Death Squads

Turkey (Kurdistan), Nov 12, The small Kurdistan province, Semdinli was shaked on the 9th of November, by a bomb eruption in a bookstore. One person died and 11 wounded. The people gathered immediately for protesting this bombing which was apparently state-sourced.

The people caught the bombers while they were trying to escape in a car. The three persons in the car were members of the army, two sub officials and one specialist sergeant.

The growing crowd beat the military men, and gave them to the police. The car of the bombers was also subject to the great anger of the popular crowd and was damaged.

The second attack occurred during the province prosecutor was making official research in the field. Counter-guerilla members opened fire over the crowd and the prosecutor. Another person died and five more were wounded.

In the military men’s car, was found very important proof: Three AK-47 rifles, hand grenades, an official “Gendarme Intelligence Service” ID belonging to “Ali Kaya” and other official gendarme cards belonging to that name. Also a military map of Semdinli in which some targets were marked was found. In this map, also the bombed bookstore was marked. Also a detailed drawing of the bombed bookstore was in the car. A “death list” was found in the car, which consisted of 150 names which were politically active in the Kurdish democratic movement, together with a list of “agents of the state”. “Ali Kaya” also has a “misson card” signed by a colonel of the Semdinli barracks.

The fascist military was caught red-handed in Semdinli by the brave people of this Kurdish province. More bombings were done in the province against civilian targets which aimed to confuse the people about the guerilla and create conflicts within the people and the Kurdish guerilla.

The Semdinli people is on the streets for the last two days. All the shops of the town is shut-down for protest. The schools are also closed because the students are not going. A police check-point in Semdinli was burned and destroyed by the people. Clashes with the police continued for two days. Also in the town center, Hakkari, which Semdinli belongs to, a big demonstration happened. The people destroyed state buildings and threw stones to the police, while the police opened fire to the mass.

In the funeral of the two martyrs of the people, which were killed in the bombing and shooting of the death squads, an angry crowd of 5 thousand people took place. Slogans against oppression and counterguerilla were shouted, along with slogans in favor of PKK and Abdullah Ocalan. The coffins were covered by the Kurdish national flag: Yellow, red and green.

The bourgeois politics front is in chaos after the popular uprise. It is a so evident case that, no one can deny the military presence in the attack against the civilian people. The AKP government claims that the ones responsible for this event "will pay its price". Of course, except the headquarters of the army, who still deny this presence and claim unofficially that this was a inner-clearance of the PKK and the caught soldiers were there to investigate the bombing.

Only two of the arrested four were imprisoned. The people finds this quite insufficient and thinks that the state is trying to cover the role of the state in this event and to protect the real criminals.