Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: Well done Italy, your new present to the world..(which is old one ?)

See how justice works in Italy. This guy was arrested by passport
police in Rome airport with false passport. Interpol had a red alert
notice for his arrest.  But for Italians he was their salvation to the
world politics. So thought their communist government.  But what is
new,  they always had soft spot for terrorists.  Shame on you Italy
for releasing this man.  
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THIS IS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MAN ITALY   SET FREE
WHO IS ABDULLAH OCALAN?
by Michael Radu
Foreign Policy Research Institute
On November 13, the Italian police arrested Abdullah Ocalan, founder
and leader of the Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) at Rome's airport. He
had just arrived from Moscow with a false passport and, upon arrest,
asked for political asylum. Coming at a time when British authorities
are detaining former Chilean president Augusto Pinochet, who stands
accused by a Spanish judge of terrorism and genocide, the arrest of
Ocalan on an outstanding warrant issued in Turkey promises to raise
significant questions about European politics, international legal
standards, and the very possibility of cooperation in combating
terrorism.
Born in 1948 in a village in Eastern Turkey, Ocalan studied political
science at Ankara University, where he became a Maoist. By 1973 he had
organized a Maoist group - which initially included Kurdish as well as
Turkish militants - whose goal was socialist revolution in Turkey.
After years of recruiting and indoctrinating followers, the PKK was
formally established on November 7, 1978. In the previous year, he
committed his first known murder, that of an ideological rival accused
of working for the government.
Since then, the group has evolved into a deadly insurgence against
Turkey, reaching a strength of some 5,000 by 1992. From his bases in
Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Ocalan conducted a ruthless
campaign, ostensibly for Kurdish independence but, as widely available
PKK internal documents suggest, the ultimate goal is the creation of a
Maoist state in areas of Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. (Skeptics are urged
to visit their website at http;/
burn.ucsd.edu/~ats/PKK/
.) Ocalan's
ambitions were clearly defined in 1995 at the Fifth Congress of the
PKK, where the "Resolution on Internationalism" stated that "By
effectively arguing in favor of socialism and by spreading socialist
ideas to the people of the region, [the PKK] is the vanguard of the
global socialist movement." In 1984 the PKK was a founding member of
the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM), a sort of loosely
structured Maoist version of Lenin's Comintern that also includes
Peru's Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso).
Indeed, the similarities between the PKK and the Shining Path are
striking: like the latter's founder, Abimael Guzman, Ocalan is a
Maoist with global leadership ambitions; their tactics are
particularly bloody, even by terrorist standards, and the main victims
are civilians who refuse to submit to their groups. Frequent targets
include teachers, members of village self-defense groups, and elected
local officials. So far, since the beginning of its operations in
1980, the PKK is primarily responsible for a war that has left some
30,000 people dead (compared with 25,000 for the Shining Path). In
addition, the PKK was responsible for a number of murders of Turks in
Germany, which is the reason the German government has also issued a
warrant for Ocalan's arrest.
For almost two decades, Ocalan has operated from Syria and
Syrian-occupied Lebanon. However, last October, after Turkey very
nearly went to war against Syria, Damascus backed down, closed PKK
camps and expelled Ocalan. First he fled to Moscow, where he has
enjoyed close relations for decades. While the Russian government
denied any knowledge of his whereabouts, on November 4 the Duma
unanimously voted to demand that he be given asylum. Two days later,
109 socialist and communist members of the Greek Parliament - one
third of the entire body - issued an invitation to Ocalan to come to
Greece as "leader of the world's most oppressed people." The
collective invitation, supported by Greece's deputy speaker,
Panayiotis Sgouridis, was renewed by a Greek Socialist parliamentarian
in Rome, after Ocalan's arrest.
To its credit the Russian government, under pressure from Turkey and
the United States, expelled Ocalan, forcing him to flee to Italy. The
terrorist leader's choice was not accidental: Italy's government is
dominated by ex-communists of the party of the Democratic Left and
supported by the unreconstructed ones. Sure enough a prominent
Democratic Left leader has already expressed support for Ocalan's
request for asylum, while leaders (and parliamentarians) of the Greens
and the orthodox communists became his lawyers. In fact, the orthodox
communist Giuliano Psiapia, one of Ocalan's lawyers, used to be
chairman of the Italian Parliament's Justice committee. As the
influential Milan newspaper La Stampa put it, the communist Justice
Minister, Oliviero Diliberto, has a dilemma on his hands: "What would
the Italian government do with Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the PKK and
the Kurdish resistance, a terrorist for the Turkish and German
authorities, who want him in their jails, and a patriot for the
Italian Greens and Communists?" Ocalan's arrest raises serious issues
that include, but go beyond that of dealing with terrorism. Judging by
the number of victims, Ocalan is in rarefied company in today's
terrorist Pantheon - only Guzman himself and the other Maoist cum
nationalist Vellupilai Pirapaharan of the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka
are in the same league. That the dominant parties in the Russian Duma
and NATO members Italy and Greece openly support and lionize him is
disturbing indeed. In Russia's case this suggests that an eventual
Communist replacement of Yeltsin could well bring back some of
Moscow's worst Cold War habits: support for large scale international
terrorism. As for Greece, it appears that the traditional reflexive
support for any enemy of Turkey is reaching dangerously provocative
and irrational heights - not a good omen for the stability of the
Alliance's southern flank. 
Italy already has had a bad record in dealing with foreign terrorists:
they routinely walk away from its jails, are given asylum or allowed
to transit freely. It is also important to see if the ex-communists
dominating the government in Rome have indeed become democratic or
still share Ocalan's beliefs in "proletarian internationalism," and
put them above justice and good sense. Furthermore, an Italian refusal
to extradite Ocalan will irreparably damage Europe's already tense
relations with Turkey and make a further mockery of the European
Union's pontifications about "human rights" and international law.
Indeed, if Ocalan goes free after a campaign that has left 30,000 dead
in the name of Maoism, while Pinochet is put on trial for the deaths
of 3,000 in winning Chile's war against communism, then we will know
that the European capacity for political hypocrisy has not been
exhausted by the fall of the Soviet Union. 
Foreign Policy Research Institute
1528 Policy Research Institute
1528 Walnut Street, Suite 610
Philadelphia, PA 19102-3684
Tel: 
(215)732-3774


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exhausted by the fall of the Soviet Union. 
Kurdish people profess the right of self-determination.  The war waged by
the Turkish repressive government against legitimate indipendence claims,
police torture, systematic violation of human rights, discrimination:
these are the causes of the deaths indicated above.
PAolo
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