FRANKFURT AM MAIN – Kurdish and internationalist students of the YXK/JXK and solidarity students disrupted a lecture on Tuesday and gave a speech to draw attention to the Turkish war crimes in southern Kurdistan and the Iranian human rights crimes in Rojhilat. They criticized that international institutions like the OPCW were unable and unwilling to investigate and punish crimes against Kurdish society.
They gave the following speech at their action:
“Large human rights and war crimes are currently taking place in Kurdistan.
The Turkish state uses poison gas against the Kurdish guerrillas in southern Kurdistan in northern Iraq on a daily basis and bombs civilian settlements in Rojava and Shingal on a daily basis. Young people our age who stand up for women’s liberation, ecology and grassroots democracy are being brutally killed. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is responsible for the prosecution and elimination of chemical weapons. At the OPCW, however, only member states can initiate an investigative commission. However, no state feels responsible for prosecuting and punishing Turkish war crimes. In theory, the federal government could submit an application for this.
The Iranian parliament, on the other hand, decided yesterday to execute all political prisoners who took part in the uprising of women and youth in East Kurdistan and Iran. Those gathered behind the slogan of the Kurdish women’s movement “Jin Jiyan Azadî” are to be executed en masse. We’re talking about up to 14,000 political prisoners here. 14,000 women and young people are to be executed.
Turkish war crimes and Iranian human rights crimes are closely related. What both regimes have in common is that they want to suppress Kurdish society and smash the Kurdish freedom movement. The three pillars of the Kurdish freedom movement – women’s revolution, ecology and grassroots democracy – are a thorn in the side of these regimes. The international political system, which mainly recognizes only nation-state actors, is unable and unwilling to intervene.
That is why we are speaking to you, we are calling you. It’s time that we students wake up from the Corona sleep and position ourselves on the most urgent problems of our time. We must put our solidarity against state complicity. The women, the youth, the student youth must take matters into their own hands. From Frankfurt to Kurdistan we call: Long international solidarity! Jin Jiyan Azadi!”
The students in the lectures reacted positively and applauded the action and the speech with approval.
