14-October-2014
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STAND UP FOR US, SAY KURDS Hundreds demand help for Kobane in third protest of week
By KIERAN ETORIA-KING A third pro-Kurdish demonstration took place in Liverpool today, chanting support for the people of Kobane, who remain besieged by ISIS. Chanting ‘Free Free Kurdistan!’ and carrying dummy bodies wrapped in white sheets, the protesters marched through the city centre and along Lime Street before sitting down outside the Royal Court Theatre, where Robert Claridge, of Fight Terrorism Fight Imperialism, gave a rous-
ing speech. He told the crowd: “There are two peoples in the middle east struggling on behalf of humanity for a future free from imperialist terror. Those are the people of Palestine and the people of Kurdistan. The people of Kurdistan have been fighting for a free state for more than 90 years, and now we see the people of Kobane on the front for the future of a united Kurdistan” Referring to the jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) lead-
er Abdullah Ocalan, who has called on all Kurds to take up arms against ISIS, Claridge said: “The fact that it is impossible to express support for one of the organisations [the PKK] that is fighting for our free Kurdistan, or to demonstrate, or to show a flag of a political prisoner who is sponsored by Amnesty International and who is the acknowledged leader for that organisation, is a statement of the lack of democracy within this country. Continued on page 3
PROTESTORS: Carrying sheets to represent dead bodies and marching for Kurdistan © Lydia Morris JMU Journalism