Manor House vigil for Kurds caught in Middle East conflicts

You may have noticed an encampment outside the Manor House gates of Finsbury Park.

This is a vigil set up for a week from 8th April to express solidarity with Kurds caught in the ongoing conflict and uprising in the Middle East. It will culminate in a march from Wood Green station to Manor House.


The organisers write:

The popular uprisings that started with Tunisia followed by Egypt and spreading to other Middle Eastern countries came as a surprise to much of the world. With these uprisings, the people of the Middle East are saying "No" to anti-democratic, neo-colonial, and despotic regimes supported by the US and European powers.

However, the uprising of the Kurdish people has received little attention in the media in Britain and Europe. This year, the celebration of the Kurdish New Year (Newroz) in Amed (Diyarbakir) in North-Kurdistan (Turkey) has been accompanied by widespread political demonstrations and agitation for language rights, democracy and freedom. The Kurdish people are a part of the spring 2011 jasmine revolution and it is about time that the world should hear their voices for liberation and the underlying reasons for their demands for justice.


Democratic Solution Tents were established in Turkey on 18 March 2011 by Peace Mothers initiative, in all the cities of the Kurdish territories and in Turkey the Kurdish people stood firm for 24 hours in the tents to end the war and in order to demonstrate their will in a powerful and direct way.

In solidarity the Kurds in Europe including the UK are raising tents in all of the major cities where they reside.

For further information email: knklondon@gn.apc.org or estella24@tiscali.co.uk

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