THAT VICTIMS ARE NOT NUMBERS. THE NEW NUMBER OF GLOBAL RIGHTS ON THE ROJAVA

Editorial

Victims are not numbers…

As we are going to print the devastating and disturbing images of yet another massacre carried out by Turkey are reaching us.
This time the victims are the youngest. Eight children between 3 and 15 years old hit while playing in their school yard. A school opened in exile. Because these children had fled from the Turkish aggression in Afrin, their city, in March 2018.

In Til Rifat, helped by the Autonomous Administration, they had begun to laboriously reconstruct an appearance of “normality”. Opening the school for the Autonomous Administration was a crucial point in order to restore that “normal” life these children had lost.

But the “normality” did not last long. On December 2, the lives of these children were wiped out. The verb is hard, but unfortunately it dramatically expresses well the contempt of life constantly reaffirmed by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. On 9 October 2019, the new Turkish operation against the Federation of North East Syria began.
Accomplices of this extermination operation, everyone. The United States, which gave the green light to the attack by suddenly withdrawing its troops by order of President Donald Trump. Russia, which plays on several tables, always to the detriment of all the different peoples living in the territories of Syria.

The European Union that timidly protested in the face of the violence of the mercenaries in the pay of Erdogan. The UN, which is really pathetic in its “demand” for respect for human rights. As if F-16, armed drones, tanks, bombs, were something intelligent. And above all as if the goal of war was not annihilation …

Faced with this new massacre of the Kurdish people and the populations with mythical names that inhabit the north-east of Syria and Rojava, the Assyrians, the Armenians … only the voice of those who protest at this injustice remains.

This issue of Global Rights Magazine joins the chorus of those who are lining up alongside the Kurdish people.
We persist, paraphrasing Antonio Gramsci, in refusing indifference. For this reason we continue to denounce the crimes of the Turkish government against Rojava and the north-east of Syria but also against the Kurdish population inside Turkey and all those who oppose the government of the “new Sultan”.

And we also denounce Ankara’s continuing attacks on northern Iraq, South Kurdistan. And we denounce the Kurdistan Regional Government for the timid objections to the increasingly heavy attacks and incursions into Iraqi territory.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Angela Merkel met in London at the side of the NATO summit on 3 December. The meeting ended in a stalemate, as explained in the often contradictory statements on the encounter issued by the four heads of state. If for Erdogan the meeting was “positive” for Macron “the uncertainties of the beginning” remain and for Merkel “there is a need for more meetings”. The next meeting will be in February and will again involve the four heads of state.
Meanwhile, international solidarity must make its voice heard more than ever.

Because the death of the children of Til Rifat and all other civilians (over 200 as to 4 December) cannot be “only” and once again another macabre number.

This issue is dedicated to the general secretary of the Party of the Future of Syria, Hevrin Xelef, brutally murdered by mercenaries in the pay of Turkey on 12 October 2019 and to the victims of Til

Rifat:

Mihmed Ali (11 years old),
Mistefa Mihmed (10 years old), Mihmed Haci (7 years old),
Arif Cafer (6 years old),
Imad Ehmed (9 years old),
Abdul Fetah (3 years old),
Semir Abdurihman (12 years old), Mihmed Adulriham (15 years old), Hisên Abdulha Kildedo (74 years old), Ali Mehmud Osman (63 years old)

 

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Global Rights International Magazine Issue #7

ROJAVA: THIS PROJECT CANNOT HAPPEN

RADICAL DEMOCRACY, DEMOCRATIC CONFEDERALISM

Index

VICTIMS ARE NOT NUMBERS…

Editorial

THE LAW OF THE STRONGEST AND THE LAW OF REASON

Sergio Segio

THE PHOTOS IN THIS ISSUE

Banos Film Project

NEW TURKISH OFFENSIVE IN ROJAVA: THE ROLE OF RUSSIA AND THE US

Giovanni Giacopuzzi

SYRIAN NATIONAL ARMY: MERCENARIES FOR TURKEY

Ersin Çaksu

WHO ARE THE TERRORISTS

Sergio Segio

INTERVIEW WITH SAHOZ HESEN, PYD CO-CHAIR

Serkan Demirel

CULTURE, ONE OF THE PILLARS OF DEMOCRATIC CONFEDERALISM

Orsola Casagrande

MERYEM KOBANE: THE OCCUPATION OF SEREKANIYE, TURKISH VENDETTA

Orsola Casagrande

TEMELLI: TURKEY IS WITNESSING A POLITICAL COUP

Orsola Casagrande

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