Kurdis yang menetapdi
UK perhimpunan di utara London pada 13 Jan 2013 (Kurds living in the UK rally
in north London on January 13, 2013 (AFP Photo/Carl Court)
WANmahani - Ahli-ahli masyarakat Kurdish di London telah
mengadakan mogok lapar di luar Downing Street untuk melobi kerajaan UK untuk
menyediakan Kurdistan Iraq dengan senjata canggih untuk melawan kumpulan
militan Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS atau Isil).
Serangan adalah sebahagian daripada kempen global
utk menggalakkan kera-jaan-kerajaan untuk menyediakan lebih banyak sokongan
kepada bangsa Kurdis, yang berjuang IS di bandar sempadan Kobani di Utara
Syria.
Mereka yang mengambil bahagian dalam tunjuk perasaan
termasuk penyokong Kurdish Demokratik Union Party (KDUP), sebuah kumpulan yg
mewakili masya-rakat Kurdish di Syria, dan juga kontroversi Kurdistan pekerja
parti (PKK), yang disenaraikan sebagai pertubuhan pengganas dlm beberapa
negara-negara Barat.
Penunjuk perasaan berkata panggilan mereka
berulang-ulang untuk lengan dan senjata canggih telah ditolak oleh Kesatuan
Eropah dan Amerika Syarikat, dengan beberapa menyalahkan Turki untuk sengaja
mewujudkan halangan, kerana takut mengukuhkan pro-kemerdekaan Kurd.
"Kami mogok lapar, untuk membantu [itu]
masyarakat Kurdish yang tinggal di Rojava [Kurdistan Syria], yang tinggal di
sebelah Turki," kata Volkan Celebi, seorang aktivis yang menyertai mogok
lapar tersebut.
"Mereka berjuang menentang keganasan ISIS dan
mereka memerlukan senjata. Kami menuntut senjata berat dan kereta kebal
anti-peluru berpandu daripada kerajaan UK dan kerajaan-kerajaan Eropah yang
lain, bukan sahaja di UK . . . Kami akan terus [itu] kelaparan mogok sehingga kami
mengambilnya."
UK Kurds begin
hunger STRIKE, Demand heavy
WEAPONS for ISIS FIGHT . . .
Members of London’s Kurdish community have staged
hunger strikes outside Downing Street to lobby the UK government to provide
Iraqi Kurdistan with advanced weaponry to fight militant group Islamic State
(IS, formerly ISIS or ISIL).
The strikes are part of a global campaign to
encourage national governments to provide more support to the Kurds, who are
fighting the IS in the border town of Kobani in Northern Syria.
Those taking part in the protest include supporters
of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (KDUP), a group representing the Kurdish
community in Syria, as well as the controversial Kurdistan workers party (PKK),
which is listed as a terrorist organization in a number of Western countries.
Protesters say their repeated calls for arms and
advanced weaponry have been rejected by the European Union and the United
States, with some blaming Turkey for deliberately creating obstacles, for fear
of strengthening pro-independence Kurds.
“We are on hunger strike, to help [the] Kurdish
community living in Rojava [Syrian Kurdistan], who live on the Turkish side,”
said Volkan Celebi, an activist participating in the hunger strike.
“They are fighting against ISIS terror and they need
weapons. We are demanding heavy weapons and anti-tank missile from UK
government and other European governments, not just the UK…We will continue
[the] hunger strike until we take it.”
Bantahan juga berlaku di Perancis, manakala
perarakan untuk meningkatkan ke-sedaran antarabangsa perjuangan Kurd 'juga telah
dicengkam San Diego di Amerika Syarikat.
IS telah berperang di Syria sejak 2012, tetapi
menjadi tajuk utama dalam beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini selepas melanjutkan
hadapan ke Iraq utara dan barat, dan juga bidang-bidang utama dalam Syria. Pada
bulan Ogos, kumpulan itu mendakwa ia telah mewujudkan 'khalifah', atau negara
Islam, di rantau ini.
Protests have also taken place in France, while
marches to raise international awareness of the Kurds’ struggle have also
gripped San Diego in the US.
The IS has been fighting in Syria since 2012, but
made headlines in recent months after extending its front into northern and
western Iraq, as well as key areas within Syria. In August, the group claimed
it had established a ‘caliphate’, or Islamic state, in the region.
Mogok lapar oleh Kurd isdi
London di luar 10 Downing Street Perpaduan dengan Kurdis. Kurdis berhak untuk
hidup (Hunger Strike by Kurds in London outside 10
Downing Street Solidarity with Kurds. Kurd deserve to live) 5:32 AM - 30
Sep 2014
Iraq dan masyarakat Kurdish Syria telah di barisan
hadapan dalam perang me-nentang IS, tetapi rutin dipanggil untuk teknologi
ketenteraan yang lebih baik dan sokongan daripada masyarakat antarabangsa.
Laporan dari rantau ini mencadangkan bahawa tentera
Kurdish, yang dikenali sebagai Peshmerga, telah ditukar traktor lama dan trak
ke dalam tangki 'gaya-Mad Max Mad
Max-style' oleh kimpalan plat logam untuk kenderaan.
Laporan lain mengatakan tentera Kurdish menggunakan
senjata ketinggalan zaman direka oleh bekas Kesatuan Soviet, termasuk mesingan
yang berusia lebih 50 tahun, bersama-sama dengan peluru direka dalam tahun
1960-an dan 70-an.
Sebaliknya, IS, yang telah dipanggil 'organisasi
pengganas paling kaya dalam zaman moden, bersenjata dgn senjata moden,
mungkin dibekalkan kpd tentera Iraq oleh Amerika Syarikat.
Walau bagaimanapun, beberapa negara2 Barat
telah bersetuju untuk melatih pejuang Peshmerga, termasuk Jerman, Perancis dan
Amerika Syarikat, yang akan menyediakan perkakasan dan latihan strategik, Wall
Street Journal melaporkan.
Iraq and Syria’s Kurdish communities have been on
the frontline in the war against IS, but have routinely called for better
military technology and support from the international community.
Reports from the region suggest that Kurdish troops,
known as the Peshmerga, have converted old tractors and trucks into ‘Mad
Max-style’ tanks by welding metal plates to the vehicles.
Other reports say Kurdish forces are using outdated
weapons designed by the former Soviet Union, including machine guns that are over
50 years old, along with ammunition designed in the 1960s and 70s.
In contrast, IS, which has been called the ‘richest
terrorist organization’ in modern times, is armed with modern weapons, likely
supplied to the Iraqi army by the US.
However, a number of Western countries have agreed
to train the Peshmerga fighters, including Germany, France and the US, which
will provide hardware and strategic training, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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