NEWS CENTER – The opening speech of the seminar was made by Titus Vilakati, CPS International Relations Officer. In his opening speech, Vilakati stated that the freedom struggle of the Kurdish people is important for them. He said that they organized such a seminar to learn and understand the Kurdish people and the Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, who led the cause of freedom, and the situation of all political prisoners.
Mahmoud Patel, President of the South African Kurdish Working Group (KHRAG), was invited to the seminar as a speaker. In a visual presentation he made at the seminar, Patel talked about the war waged by the Turkish state with international support from the First World War to the present. In the second part, he discussed the history of the PKK, its resistance and the position of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan in this struggle.
An original presentation was also made on the role of the CIA, Mossad and NATO in the international conspiracy against Abdullah Öcalan. Citing the Imrali system that the Kurdish People’s Leader has been exposed to for the 24th year, Patel drew attention to the similarities they experienced during the apartheid regime of South Africa in order to better understand the situation of both the Kurdish people and Leader Apo.
After a 40-minute presentation, CPS International Secretary Pius Vilakati stated that the Kurdish people’s struggle for freedom is their own struggle and that success is possible with the unity of the peoples, and stated that Sakine Cansız was murdered by the Turkish state because of the strength of the Kurdish women’s revolution.
Titus Vilakati, another CPS executive who attended the seminar, underlined the internationalist belief of his party, reminding that CPS Secretary General Thokozane Kenneth Kunene said “The freedom struggle of the Kurdish, Palestinian and Western Sahara peoples is our struggle”.
It was expressed by the participants that the CPS should fight for the freedom of the Kurdish People’s Leader. In conclusion, the necessity of joint struggle was underlined in the call.
The Swazilan Communist Party has been fighting against the monarchy in the country for many years.
