DHKC: Victory For The Prisoners And

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From: Arm The Spirit <ats at etext.org>
Subject: DHKC: Victory For The Prisoners And Their Families!

"Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi" (DHKC)

The Death-Fast Has Ended After 69 Days!
The Turkish Government Has Agreed To The Prisoners' Demands!

        The resistance of the last 69 days has ended. The murderour maffia
government (DYP and REFAH parties) has agreed to the prisoners' demands:

        - plans for opening new special prisons and introducing solitary
confinement and forced relocation of prisoners have been scrapped;
        - there will be no further attacks on prisoners or their families;
        - medical care will no longer be denied to prisoners;
        - current trials against sick prisoners will be delayed until their
health improves.

        During the 69 days of resistance, 11 revolutionary prisoners fell.
Another prisoner died in hospital on July 28, 4 others are in critical
condition. The fascist government took 12 lives in exchange for 4 prisoner
demands. For the political prisoners, this was a struggle which weakened
their bodies with each passing day. For their families, it was a struggle
which saw them behind the barricades with each passing day. The families
and friends of the prisoners were threatened every day, they were beaten,
arrested, and tortured. The police stations became filled with people who
waged resistance. A 60-year-old mother and father and leading trade
unionists launched death-fasts on the outside.
        This struggle strengthened peoples' will. The people won this
struggle. The 12 martyrs used their bodies as a barricade against the most
brutal regime which we have faced to date. Those responsible in the
government and the media tried all forms of threats and propaganda they
could. The state lied, threatened, beat people with clubs, arrested
demonstrators, tortured and shot people. But to no avail. The voice of the
resistance from the prisons was heard across the country and around the
world.
        They could not jail the spirits of free prisoners. They could not
dampen the will of the families. Democracy, freedom, and love of humanity
were victorious. This victory belongs to all of us, the prisoners, their
families, our people, and our friends across the world who were with us
always.

        12 martyrs fell in the struggle:

Aygun Ugur - TKP(ML)
Altan Berdan Kerimgiller - DHKP-C
Ilginc Ozkeskin - DHKP-C
Huseyin Demircioglu - MLKP
Ali Ayata - TKP(ML)
Mujdat Yanat - DHKP-C
Tahsin Yilmaz - TIKB
Ayse Idil Erkmen - DHKP-C
Hicabi Kucuk - TIKB
Yemliha Kaya - DHKP-C
Osman Akgul - TIKB
Hayati Can - TKP(ML)

        They will live on in our struggle...

Revolutionary People's Liberation Front (DHKC)
Information Office, Vienna
July 28, 1996


(Translated by Arm The Spirit)

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