Break the Silence! Turkey’s Warfare on Kurds – BBC to Trafalgar Sq.
Turkey’s Warfare on Kurds. On Sunday sixth March 2016, a number of thousand of Kurds and their supporters marched by London in solidarity with the Kurdish individuals calling for an finish to the silence from Turkey’s NATO allies and the western press over Turkish conflict being waged towards Kurds in northern Syria.
This space of Syria has efficiently damaged away from management by the Syrian regime beneath President Assad and arrange a well-liked progressive participatory democracy beneath the identify Rojava. Though Kurds type the bulk, the spectacular structure of the brand new space ensures the rights of all of the minority teams and likewise has enshrined the equal rights of ladies. Many see it as a mannequin for future democratic states elsewhere.
The Kurds additionally name for the UK to decriminalise the PKK Kurdish liberation Motion right here, and for the discharge of their chief Abdullah Ocalan who has been in jail in Turkey since his unlawful kidnapping in Kenya in 1999. In 2003 the European Courtroom of Human Rights dominated his trial unfair, and known as for a retrial. Turkey misplaced an enchantment towards this resolution in 2005 however have nonetheless refused to carry a retrial.
The march started with round 5,000 individuals massing outdoors the BBC, who’ve persistently didn’t cowl the true points over the Kurdish wrestle and prefer to virtually completely ignore any political protests happening within the UK. True to type there seemed to be no point out of this massive march in any BBC nationwide or native information in the following couple of days.
The protest was known as by his protest was known as by Cease the Warfare on the Kurds and supported by an enormous array of teams, which I listed on My London Diary. Right here it’s once more.
Peace in Kurdistan, Kurdistan Nationwide Congress (KNC), Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan, Day Mer, GIK-DER/RWCA, Nationwide Union of Academics (NUT), Public and Industrial Providers Union (PCS), Nationwide Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Employees Union (RMT), Transport Salaried Staffs’ Affiliation (TSSA), Commerce Union Congress – Worldwide Part, Larger London Affiliation of Commerce Union Councils (GLATUC), Commerce Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), Nationwide Store Stewards Community (NSSN), Unite Housing Department, Unison Islington, Cease the Warfare Coalition, Folks’s Meeting, Unite In opposition to Fascism (UAF), Socialist Employees Celebration, Socialist Resistance, Plan C, Revolutionary Communist Group, Left Unity, Inexperienced Celebration, Kurdish Group Centre, Halkevi, Roj Ladies’s Meeting, Kurdish College students Union, Alliance for Employees Liberty (AWL), Anti-Fascist Community (AFN), Nationwide Marketing campaign In opposition to Charges and Cuts (NCAFC), Celebration of Free Lifetime of Kurdistan (PJAK), Democratic Union Initiative & PYD and different teams.
The march slowly went down Regent Avenue to Piccadilly Circus the place the top of the march stopped and briefly sat down, blocking the junction. A couple of minutes later they acquired up and marched down Haymarket to a rally in Trafalgar Sq.. I left them to go to a different occasion as te rally started.
Extra photos on My London Diary: Break the Silence! Turkey’s Warfare on Kurds.
Bunhill Fields Beneath Risk
Bunhill Fields is likely one of the Metropolis of London’s most particular locations, a Grade I cultural heritage web site owned by the Metropolis of London and loved by many close by workplace staff within the space as a quiet house for his or her lunch breaks, although I believe these are quickly turning into, just like the cemetery a factor of the previous, with many working from residence or snatching a fast sandwich at their desk nonetheless watching a terminal.
It’s a quiet place, a sanctuary and each comparable cliche you prefer to throw at it, and naturally at all times beneath menace from rapacious builders (are there every other sorts?) Though the cemetery itself is protected by its itemizing, I’d signed a petition towards a growth instantly on the north-east boundary which is able to consequence on this small and necessary web site being overshadowed by a big and inappropriate growth.
The proposed 10 and 11 storey skyscrapers would set a precedent quickly to be adopted by others and would severely change its nature, depriving it of sunshine and altering its micro-climate. Islington Council had rejected the planning utility but it surely was known as in by then London Mayor Boris Johnson who allowed it to go forward, together with different damaging schemes across the metropolis.
Bunhill Fields was a burial floor primarily for nonconformists who couldn’t be buried in Church of England churchyards and cemeteries and was in use from 1665 to 1854. It’s best-known because the burial place of William Blake, Daniel Defoe, Isaac Watts, George Fox and John Bunyan, in addition to others together with Susannah Wesley.
The cemetery, which has a public path by its centre, is reverse Wesley’s Chapel on the Metropolis Street, with the trail main by to Bunhill Row. Many of the monuments in it, many listed, are in enclosed areas behind fences and might solely be considered from the paths, although years in the past it was doable to wander extra freely. There may be nonetheless a backyard space on the north of the positioning, the place many, together with Blake, had been buried, with a garden and seating.
Extra photos at Bunhill Fields Beneath Risk.
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