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From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>My own charge against Human Rights Watch is not that it
>is "_neglecting repression_ of the Kurds in Turkey" but that it
>actually went so far as to help persecute them, for instance by
>pressuring the Italian and other governments to prosecute Abdullah
>Ocalan for "crimes against humanity,"
<http://www.hrw.org/press/1999/jan/tur0120.htm>).
Umm-- Yoshie, that statement was made in the context of also having opposed extradicting Ocalan to Turkey where he faced the death penalty. Ocalan is not equivalent to the Kurdish people-- he is a murderer and admits as much. Trying him as an individual under international law is hardly helping to "presecute" the Kurdish people.
--Nathan Newman