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Nabarralde | Nabarra Papers
Kurds
Executed with Basque Made Weapons
Bernard Isturitz.
Spain's
regional parliament of Baskongada
on Friday issued a document calling for an "international
conference" to find a solution to the situation of the Kurdish
people. The parliamentary document states solidarity with the
Kurdish people and condemns the "policy of extermination by
the government of Turkey against this (Kurdish) people."
The
document was approved with the votes of the Basque nationalist
parties which control the regional government of Bascongada,
and Spain's United Left.
The
Bascongada parliament's call for solidarity with the Kurdish
people is a farce. The parliament has done nothing to stop the
ongoing exports of Basque weapons to Turkey. On top of that,
the regional government of Bascongada pay subsidies to Basque
arms manufacturers including a subsidy of 700 million pesetas
paid to Expal, a Basque arms company that exports to Turkey.
In
February the parliament of Bascongada agreed to host a meeting
of the Kurdish parliament-in-exile, which meets in various European
cities every few months. A tour of special interest to the Kurdish
representatives would be a visit to the nearby Basque arms factories.
These are the factories where weapons for the government of
Turkey are being produced at the profit of Basque businesses
who in turn spend some of their profit underwriting the Basque
politicians who invited the Kurdish representatives.
It
is a dissappointment, though we should not be surprised, for
us to watch Euskal Herritarrok participate in this sad drama.
March 12, 1999
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reduced their arms exports' (The Global Ideas Bank)
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