by Stephen Lendman
Turkey is waging slow-motion genocide
on its Kurdish population the way America ravished its native people,
populations of nations it attacks, as well as how Israel massacres
Palestinians.
Turkish Kurdistan is a war zone, home
for about a fourth of the country’s population, around 20 million people.
Targeted cities and towns are trapped
under siege - without food, electricity, medical supplies and other essentials.
Wrongfully designated terrorists, PKK freedom fighters want local autonomy in
Turkey’s southeast.
Erdogan vowed to annihilate them,
destroy their homes and buildings, saying “(o)ur security forces will continue
this fight until (areas being attacked) are completely cleansed” - no matter
the cost in human lives and suffering.
Defenseless civilians are being
massacred, their homes, schools, hospitals and vital infrastructure
destroyed.
The international community is
virtually silent, ignoring Erdogan’s savagery. Nuremberg-level war crimes are
being committed unaccountably.
RT International reported
on genocide in Cizre, located in Turkey’s southeastern Anatolia region near
bordering Syria and Iraq, its mostly Kurdish population numbering about
130,000.
Hundreds of civilians are trapped,
denied access to food, medicines and other essentials. Pro-Kurdish Peoples’
Democratic Party (HDP) MP Feleknas Uca said 150 people were burned alive by
Turkish forces.
RT said regime atrocities couldn’t be
confirmed until now. Eyewitness survivors explained them, including precise
locations of mass killings - major crimes of war and against humanity.
An unnamed woman said “I wouldn’t
wish this on anyone. Erdogan has destroyed our world. He has burned us.” She
pointed out blood stains on the building set ablaze, scores inside deliberately
immolated.
Hundreds of Cizre civilians were
massacred, including women, children and the elderly. “Erdogan killed all of
them with heavy artillery,” she explained.
He claims he’s fighting terrorists.
Where are they, she asked? Defenseless civilians alone were massacred.
Dozens were discovered burned alive
in another building, many beheaded by Turkish forces. RT supplied harrowing
video footage to various human rights organizations, including the Office of
the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, notoriously pro-Western, a longstanding
imperial tool while pretending otherwise.
Defense and Foreign Affairs editor
Gregory Copley minced no words, saying “(t)he objective of the Erdogan (regime)
is to completely have a genocidal campaign against the Kurds…(T)hat’s what’s
now occurring” - Turkish forces using heavy weapons against noncombatant
civilians.
Interviewed by RT, American Kurdish
Information Network director Kani Xulam said Turkish forces committed war
crimes in Cizre, “attack(ing) civilians (not involved in) fighting.”
Current hostilities began last July,
breaching an agreed on ceasefire lasting two years. Thousands of Cizre
residents alone are threatened with annihilation.
Weeks of fighting turned
neighborhoods to rubble. Turkish snipers man rooftops, shooting anything that
moves. Teenager Firat Duymak likely spoke for others, saying “I have no hope
for this place anymore.”
He buried his father, killed by
Turkish forces in a basement where he took shelter. “When I received his body
for burial, it was just a bag of flesh and bones,” he said, the remains of
immolation.
Turkish interior minister Efkan Ala
said operations in Cizre were completed “in a very successful fashion” -
atrocities of no interest to Western leaders.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He
can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks
WW III."
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