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August 15, 2006

Ottawa: Kurdish community protest for recognition of genocide

KURDISHMEDIA.COM, AUGUST 14, 2006

Please be advised that as a part of world-wide campaign, Ottawa Kurdish Community Association (OKCA) is organizing a protest with the participation of Toronto Kurdish House, London Kurdish Community Services, KNC and other Kurdish political parties, in front of the Federal Iraqi Embassy on August 21, 2006 at 12 o'clock. Kurdish Canadians from Toronto, Montréal, London and other cities will join us to show the reaction of Kurdish Canadians to entire world.

It is very important that we all get together in that day with Kurdistan flags to raise our voices and show friend and foe that our martyrs are never forgotten. We should also be there to convey our messages to Iraqi Government to formally recognize that Saddam’s Genocidal Anfal Campaign as crimes of genocide against Kurdish Nation and all humanity and also ask them to carry out some parts of trial in Halabja and other parts of Kurdistan

Location: In Front of the Federal Iraqi Embassy 215 McLeod Street- Ottawa

Date: August 21. 2006

Time: 12.00 noon

For more information please contact:

Brusk Reshvan at 613.220.2152

Rizgar Ali 613.220.3489

Jaffer Tovi at 613.830.1769

or e-mail Ottawa Kurdish Community Association (OKCA) at info@okca.org

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August 07, 2006

Bhopali victims of Union Carbide observe Hiroshima Day

BHOPAL, AUGUST 6, 2006

Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha
Bhopal Group for Information and Action
Bhopal ki Aawaaz

PRESS STATEMENT

Hundreds of Bhopali victims of American multinational Union Carbide today observed Hiroshima Day through a day long fast calling for withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.

The mass Satyagraha led by four organisations at the memorial to the Bhopal disaster was in solidarity with the hunger strike by American activists in which 25 long term fasters demanding “Troops home fast” have been joined by 4,350 people in 23 countries. Today is the 33rd day of the hunger strike started on July 4 in front of the White House in Washington DC.

Diane Wilson one of the activists on this historic hunger strike has earlier served 3 months of imprisonment in Texas for her protest action at a Union Carbide factory in support of the struggle of the Bhopal survivors. The four organisations leading the mass Satyagraha in Bhopal have been working with survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal and those poisoned by contamination of ground water for nearly two decades.

The organisations also presented a poster exhibition at the site of the Satyagarha depicting Hiroshima, Bhopal, Iraq and other crimes against humanity perpetrated by the US government and corporations. Protestors condemned the US government’s support to the atrocities in Lebanon where over 900 civilians including 300 children under 12 years have been killed and more than 3,000 have been injured by the Israeli government.

According to the organisations : Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh, Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha, Bhopal ki Aawaaz and Bhopal Group for Information and Action, the invasion and continuing occupation of Iraq that have killed more than 40,000 Iraqis and over 2,000 American soldiers demonstrates the terror practised by the United States administration in the service of American corporations such as Haliburton, Bechtel and Lockheed-Martin.


Rashida Bee, Champa Devi Shukla
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh
93031 32959

Syed M Irfan
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha
93290 26319

Shahid Noor
Bhopal ki Aawaaz
98261 82226

Satinath Sarangi, Rachna Dhingra
Bhopal Group for Information and Action
98261 67369
Contact :

House No. 12, Gali No. 2, Near Naseer Masjid, Bag Umrao Dulha, Bhopal 462 010

For latest information on Bhopal disaster please visit www.bhopal.net

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