Human Rights Watch on Kurds

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Sun Oct 20 20:57:42 PDT 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>If Abdullah Ocalan is a murderer, so was George Washington, Toussaint
>L'Overture, or any other independence leader who led an armed
>struggle.

I've actually been a bigger defender of terrorism as a means of armed struggle by rebel groups, but the PKK is far and above many such groups in their brutal murder of civilians. HRW's condemnation of Ocalan was based on a series of PKK murders, including large numbers of children. See http://www.hrw.org/press98/nov/italy-apendix.htm

Again there is the defense of mass murderers. HRW does not defend Turkey, yet you cite the PKK as such garden variety rebels. Milosevic, Hussein, Ocalon-- what a sorry mess of mass murderers you are attaching to the left.

-- Nathan Newman



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