NEWS CENTER – In the wide-ranging dossier “Your Silence Kills” about the war crimes of the Turkish occupying state, the information was presented in a collected way, which had already been published in different places, at different times.
However, despite the abundance of information, reports, documents and evidence, there were only minor reactions from the public. Until October 18, when the NPG announced to the public the names of 17 guerrilla fighters who died due to the use of chemical weapons and prohibited Şehîd weapons. In addition to this, footage was released through the ANF news agency, of Şehîd Helbest and Şehîd Baz taken shortly before they fell Şehîd. The footage vividly highlighted how the two guerrillas were under the influence of chemical warfare agents and showed eruptive reactions.
These two collected information led to an uproar in the society and various actions and protests in the public. However, it has also become clear during the dossier that chemical warfare agents have been used many times, especially in the areas of Kurdistan against the Kurdish population. Chemical warfare agents have also been used against the guerrillas many times in the history of their resistance by the Turkish occupying state, as was made clear in the last video special, for example.
It is nevertheless the question how a broad social public can be silent opposite such crimes at the humanity. How a broad social public can remain emotionless towards it. One answer lies in the fact that the system of capitalist modernity has alienated people from their humanity to such an extent that human reactions and feelings no longer show themselves in a natural way. First and foremost, liberalism has played its part in making people indifferent to fascist Turkey’s invasion of southern Kurdistan and the massive use of chemical weapons, with NATO support, against a guerrilla force made up mostly of Kurdish youth and young women who fight with nothing but their weapon in hand, their convictions and their beliefs.
Liberalization of society
The ideology of liberalism, which fragments any society into thousands of selfish individuals, has killed the natural reflexes of man, alienated them from their natural behaviors, made them not want to acknowledge reality, or forget it. Man, as an individual without the support and strength that man draws from society, is fearful, stunted and dehumanized. With the ideology of liberalism, man became a machine, pressed into forms and silenced.
While in 1968, in the wake of the war that was raging in Vietnam, and drawing hope from the rebellion that the people of Vietnam were creating, the students rose up to protest against the unequal war, the slogan “Create 1,2,3 many Vietnams” resonated throughout the world among the students and the rebellious youth, today the youth are silent in the face of the massive use of chemical weapons and banned warfare agents.
What the use of chemical warfare agents means for a country can be observed not only in Helebca and Dersim. After the USA used pesticides, defoliants and incendiary bombs as well as Naplam against the population and the environment in Vietnam and destroyed the society with prostitution, agentism and drugs in other ways, the society of Vietnam still suffers from the late effects of this war today. Destroyed landscapes contaminated for decades and the high number of children born with deformities are just two examples of this.
It is certain that if the youth does not educate itself and defend itself against the daily media bombardments of capitalist modernity, it will perish and become handmaidens of this destructive system, will lose its natural reflexes, its understanding of what is right and wrong and its corresponding reactions will atrophy and everything will perish in a gray mush of ice-cold emotionlessness, or oversensitive emotionalism when it comes to its own concerns.
Therefore, the youth must educate themselves, deal with reality, raise their awareness and with the understanding of what is right and what is wrong show their reactions openly and decisively. If the youth stops rebelling, society will perish. Of course, the capitalist mordernity has exerted great influence on the social parts with its war against society, of course, a struggle against it is not an easy one. But it is certain that just in the present time the capitalist modernity is in a deep crisis and is looking for ways out. It is certain that especially the youth cannot leave this way out to the capitalist modernity, but must develop alternatives and ways themselves, which they present to society.
Whether with Corona, the instigation of wars and new threat scenarios, modernity tries with all means to control society through the politics of fear and to shape it according to its values. But society should be the most afraid of this system and organize, defend and protect itself accordingly.
The guerrillas who have organized themselves in the free mountains, who form and defend themselves, have taken this step out of the system in order to lead their society, in order to lead the revolutionary struggle and to finally declare war on modernity without any doubt. Because they have realized that this system has nothing good in store for them and never will.
We can expect nothing from these states, only the worst….
Those who believe and hope that the hegemonic states will ever stand up for an oppressed minority or a revolutionary movement without a vested interest have learned nothing from history. Those who believe that law and justice are made for man have not recognized the cause of the justification of these laws, ownership. During the HPG’s appeals to the public to react to the chemical weapons attacks on the guerrillas, there have been repeated appeals to the state institutions in the democratic public to react to the situation. Of course, this is a means to create publicity, to draw attention to the sitaution and not to tolerate that this issue is kept silent. However, it should not be relied upon that the states will react, that politics will do anything that will benefit the Kurds.
Currently, the invasion war against Rojava (North-East Syria), which started on November 19, is being supported and tolled by the political representatives of the EU countries, while on the other hand, the political parties adorn themselves with slogans like “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî” in order to express their solidarity with the “Iranian women”. Why they have chosen a Kurdish slogan for this purpose only expresses their inadequacy to go on a wave that has been created in the public space by the uprising of the Kurdish women and youth in Rojhilat, as well as the students in Theran.
A war for the existence of Kurdish society
But back to the topic. As is common knowledge, the current situation in Kurdistan is very serious. Not only since the beginning of the April 14 invasion against the Medya Defense Areas, or the massacre of the rebellious youth started by the Iranian regime, or since the beginning of the November 19 invasion against North-East Syria.
This war has been raging in Kurdistan for years and will not end as long as the freedom-loving societies of Mesopotamia and the Middle East are fighting and resisting for their democratic rights, for their freedom. This war will not end as long as the imperialist states pursue economic interests in the Middle East and destroy the societies in the regions and drive them into genocide with the training and active support of tyrannical groups, organizations and regimes.
For this reason, today it is more important than ever that people, especially youth and young women, particularly those in the European region, recollect their human reflexes, embrace their role and mission as youth and young women, and recognize the seriousness of the situation.
Today against the guerrillas, tomorrow against humanity
That is why it is important that people realize that what is used today against the guerrillas will be used tomorrow against the civilian population, should there not be appropriate reactions in the international public. This is how it started back then with America’s drone war in Afgahnistan, which today has become the military equipment of various European states.
This war is not only a war of fascist Turkey against the guerrillas, it is a war of NATO against the Kurdish population. The fascist AKP-MHP is attacking the Kurdish youth in the free mountains of Kurdistan, as in Efrîn, with weapons of NATO, with weapons from Germany, England and the USA. This war is not only a war that is limited to Kurdistan, it is the third world war that is especially affecting Kurdistan, but in which international states and organizations are actively participating. As the section on the subject of where the weapons actually come from has clearly shown and also makes clear the current and past situation in Rojava.
