Hundreds of Turkish soldiers to stand trial for rape of Kurdish woman

[Aidoneus]

apparently the treatment that Team W wants in Iraq now..

Hundreds of Turkish soldiers to stand trial for rape of Kurdish woman
03/10/2003 AFP

DIYARBAKIR - Prosecutors in Turkey have indicted hundreds of Turkish soldiers in a controversial case involving the torture and multiple rape of a Kurdish woman while she was in custody in 1993 and 1994, the plaintiff’s lawyer said Friday.

The woman, who is 31 and known only as S.E., said she was blindfolded when she was tortured and raped, leading the prosecution to charge all 405 soldiers who served during that period in two paramilitary stations in Mardin province in the southeast of the country where she claims she was abused.

--snip--

S.E. says she was tortured and raped at the hands of paramilitary troops each time she was taken into custody in November 1993 and in March and August 1994, a period of intense fighting against Kurdish rebels. Her claims have been verified by a medical report.

In the last incident, she lost consciousness and came to after nine days in hospital.

She was never officially charged with any crime.

--snip--

http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=4323

On the side to be noted:--by 1993 Turkey was the 3rd largest recipient of US military aid, and that number rose as their record of military atrocities in north Kurdistan rose in the next few years (only to be passed by the Colombian military later in the decade, again raised along with the rising level of atrocities carried out by the State).

[arcane1]

1. yeah, let's send some Turkish troops into northern Iraq

that'll go over real well...

not!

[IranianDemocrat]

2. We still can't let the Kurds have their own autonomous region...

.

[NNN0LHI]

3. Autonomous region? They will be damn lucky if they are not all killed

They can forget all about an autonomous region. It ain't never going to happen.

Don

[Mal]

4. But they wont forget about it.

Never to forget. Never to forgive.

[NNN0LHI]

5. They forgot old man Bush pulled the same thing on them in '91

Told them to rise up and he would help. They did rise up. But the US did not help them. And Husseins army tore them up.

Don

http://www.cygneis.com/anastaplo/comm/calls.htm

<snip>A critical test of the character, and hence reliability, of a country is how it stands by its words and deeds. In April 1991, after the end of the hostilities in Kuwait, President Bush was several times confronted with charges that the United States had abandoned those gallant people in Iraq who had been repeatedly encouraged by him to rise up against their savage government. A typical charge was that addressed to Mr. Bush on April 16, 1991: "Mr. President, your administration estimates that up to 1,000 Kurds are dying each day. How do you reply to critics who say that you've acted too little, too late, and that you've turned your back on the very people that you inspired to rise up against Saddam Hussein?"

Mr. Bush's replies to this kind of charge were all variations upon his assurance of April 7, 1991: "I went back and reviewed every statement I made about this, every single one. And there was never any implication that the United States would use force to go beyond the objectives which we so beautifully have achieved." One cannot help but wonder how Mr. Bush, when he "reviewed every statement" he had made on this subject, overlooked such statements about Saddam Hussein as this one of March 1, 1991: "In my own view I've always said that it would be -- that the Iraqi people should put him aside and that would facilitate the solution of all these problems that exist, and certainly would facilitate the acceptance of Iraq back into the family of peace-loving nations."

There are more than a dozen public statements on record in which Mr. Bush, during and immediately after the 1991 hostilities in Kuwait and Iraq, sought to "inspire" the people of Iraq "to rise up against Saddam Hussein." It is not surprising, therefore, that it never occurred to Mr. Bush's audiences in Iraq and elsewhere that American force would not be used to support the uprising he had repeatedly called for.

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[Mal]

6. Good point.

Maybe they believed again because hope springs eternal? On both occasions it was getting closer to achieving Kurdistan that was being dangled in front of them.

But I still say they'll never forget their dream for a Kurdistan, or forgive the Turks or anyone else who keeps it from them.

[7th_Sephiroth]

7. what should (and is)happen(ing)

Brittish soldiers to stand trial for rapeing african women

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. No, of course not...

...that might be too simple of a solution.

Besides, if the NeoCons have their way, the whole Middle East will be part of the Bush Reich soon enough.

[ReadTomPaine]

9. Yes- this was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline.