How the Commons can break the silence over Halabja
The British Parliament is set to debate the political recognition of Saddam Hussein’s campaign against the Kurds as genocide. With the threat of chemical weapons in Syria a declared ’red line’, the need to properly understand and account for the legacy of the largest chemical attack against a civilian population remains as pressing as ever.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/gary-kent/how-commons-can-break-silence-over-halabja
Öcalan says PKK might withdraw from Turkey in August
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-308246-.html
Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), envisions the withdrawal of his fighters from Turkey by August under a draft peace plan sent to his group’s leadership and Kurdish politicians, media reports said on Wednesday.
Held in an island prison since his capture in 1999, Öcalan has been negotiating with the government since October over the outlines of a deal to end a conflict which has killed at least 40,000 people since his fighters took up arms in 1984.
#Syria 15 people have been killed in the shelling of the #Kurds Mountains by Syrian government jets http://wikimapia.org/#lat=36.6448371&lon=36.8042245&z=13&l=5&m=b