What are village guards?
--- On Fri, 5/15/09, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Turkish wedding massacre
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, May 15, 2009, 12:28 PM
> A friend in Turkey writes me the
> following:
>
> 'About the ' wedding massacre ', in fact it had nothing to
> do neither with honour nor with wedding. It was a carefully
> planned massacre to resolve some conflict among the village
> guards themselves over the division of land taken away from
> a family which was forced to leave their home. The police
> was aware before hand and probably promised them protection.
> The plan was to blame PKK for the massacre but it got out.
> Now the whole Turkey is discussing the issue of village
> guards whether it should be abolished or not.'
>
> The 'Village Guards' are a local militia raised to fight
> the Kurdish separatist PKK
>
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>