BEHDÎNAN – The words “war is destruction, war is death” etc. uttered by many sages in describing war are of course a manifestation of the destruction and carnage that mankind has experienced through wars. In that time we may face destruction such as history has never seen. The states and a handful of capitalists who monopolize power are destroying and plundering all of our habitats and nature. This destruction of nature is now a global problem.
The massacre of nature in Kurdistan is part of the policy of genocide. For years, the Turkish army has been conducting forest burning and logging as part of routine tenders, and the painful part is that they pass the tender on to some local collaborators in exchange for a few pennies. In northern Kurdistan, the Turkish state has carried the massacre of nature, which it is carrying out with all its might, to the south. In southern Kurdistan, they first fell trees in the areas they occupied and then marketed these trees through local employees.
The Turkish army was forced to withdraw from many parts of the Zap areas in December 2022. Visiting the camps and positions left behind by the Turkish army, I witnessed this massacre of nature and find it difficult to put into words the horror I witnessed. I felt once again the destructive power of the war, which I had followed and witnessed with great pain over the course of the year. Seeing the trees felled and destroyed by bombs made me angry and the words stuck in my throat. I knew with what mentality and hostility they felled those trees. The year before I had learned from the guerrillas that when the Turkish army cut down trees, some guerrillas could not bear it and intervened and eventually became Şehîds. the turkish state, Knowing no bounds in his hostility and cruelty, he slaughtered mountain goats, wild boar and guerrilla mules with bombs weighing several tons. In recent days, they have bombarded natural fountains, fruit trees and dense plane trees on the banks of the body of water, leaving nothing behind.
If we put all this together, I believe that the Turkish state’s crime against nature should be added to the crime of genocide. Of course, their local collaborators should also be known.
Source: ANF/Kurtay Serhat
