THE AFTERMATH

"The Christian Science Monitor is talking about the feelings of Kurds after the protests in Amed and other cities in Turkish-occupied Kurdistan and the tone of the article confirms a couple of things. First, that the Kurdish people feel without hope for the future under continued Turkish misrule and, second, there is the feeling that the situation is moving back into what it was during the 1990s.

Last October, Hêzên Parastina Gel (HPG) announced a "sharp increase of recruits joining the ranks of HPG guerrillas," and predicted a doubling or tripling of the numbers of recruits in 2006 if the trend continued. That prediction may come to pass, especially given the attitude of one of the student protestors of the recent repression, as reported by the CSM:"
Rasti