Thursday, December 29, 2011

Happy NewYear

Wishing you a Happy Holiday, New Year,Christmas, Hanuka ...
پیشاپیش سال نو میلادی 2012 بر شما مبارک باد
سه ر سالی تازه ی زایینی پیروز بیت
هه مو کاتیکتان شاد
به هیوای ئه وین و یه کسانی و عه دل و مروفایه تی
برایتان عشق و عدالت و برابری آرزو می کنیم

Wishing peace,Love,Justice, and Equality

for all of Humanity

Sunday, November 20, 2011

VOK Radio Interview with Dr.Elise Auerback

VOK Radio Interview with Dr.Elise Auerback, Iran Country Specialist, At Amnesty International USA during Amnesty International annual Regional Conference in LosAngeles ,California, November 2011



مصاحبه با خانم دكتر اليس آوربك، متخصص در امور ايران سازمان
عفو بين الملل در خصوص گزارش مقدماتى آقاى احمد شهيد در مورد نقض حقوق بشر در ايران، انتقاداتى كه به اين گزارش وارد است و همچنين نظر سازمان عفو بين الملل در مواردى از نقض حقوق بشر كه بايد در اين گزارش آورده شود.( به زبان انگليسى)وتو ويژ له گه ل خاتو ئه ليس ئاوربك، به رپرسى به شى وه لاتى ئيران له ريكخراوى لي بوردنى نيو نه ته وي دا سه بارت به ريپورتى ئاغاى ئه حمه د شه هيد سه بارت به پي شه ل كردنى مافى مروڤ له ئيراندا، بيرو راى ئه م ريكخراوه له سه ر ريپورته كه و رخنه يك كه به م ريپورته له لايه نى گه لانى ئيران و ريكخراوه جيوازه كان هاتوه ته ئاراوه ( به زمانى ئنگلیزی



Monday, October 31, 2011

Halloween in my work place and Kurdish Angel


































Kurdish Angel in Halloween

We celebrate this day for matter of integration in this society. For its beautiful and interesting custom. In my work place we all dress up. It has been 10 years,with different customs. This year I became Kurdish Angel.
For whom dont know much about Halloween here it is:
Halloween
or Hallowe’en (a contraction of All Hallows' Eve) is an annual holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night preceding All Hallows Day. Much like Day of the Dead celebrations, the holiday has ancient origins tied to seasonal change, harvest time, and festivals honoring the dead. Typical Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (also known as "guising"), attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Short report on the United Nations Association-USA San Fernando Valley Chapter dinner and lecture.











































































October 14, 2011 at the Village Mediterranean Grill, Valley Village.
The program began with chapter’s Co president, Virginia Hatfield welcomed the participants and gave an update of the chapter’s agenda to the attendees. And than Soraya Fallah chapter’s VP programming introduced the speaker. Dr. Alireza Azizi, who is an activist in the field of human rights for the past thirty years, eloquently linked the United Nations International Declaration of Human Rights (IDHR), and its covenants, in raising healthcare as a standard for measure in the nation-states of our world today.
Presentation was also received by the organization of supporters of Mourning Mother(Mothers of Laleh Park), showcasing abuses in Iran today, and urging action on the part of the United Nations Investigator, an IDHR Optional Protocol on Civil and Political Rights.
Alos Soraya Fallah,the VP Programming of the chapter gave a short update on the Nobel Peace Prize. On April 2011 UNAUSA-SFV issued a Press Release in support of M.Sedigh Kaboudvand Kurdish /Iranian Journalist who has been nominated for the 2011 Noble Peace Prize. She indicated that three women activists won the prize and we are deeply happy about it and we hope to see release of all prisoners.
In the end Question and Answer made a dynamic atmosphere in the place. The president awarded a certificate to the speaker and organizers were thanked for their effort.
To read Dr.Azizi’s speech and biography please click the following link:
http://www.vokradio.com/content/view/1472/23/


for the report in Farsi:


Sunday, October 09, 2011

World Day Against the Death Penalty


World Day Against the Death Penalty

noose_200px10 October 2011 -- The first World Day Against the Death Penalty took place in 2003. This event was launched by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, which gathers international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), bar associations, unions and local governments from all over the world. Established by organisations who participated in the first international Congress against the death penalty (Strasbourg, 2001), the Coalition aims to encourage the establishment of national coalitions, the organisation of common initiatives and the coordination of international lobbying efforts to sensitise states that still maintain the death penalty.

This year's World Day focuses on the inhumanity of the death penalty as a cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment. The dreadful conditions on death row inflict extreme psychological suffering and execution is a physical and mental assault. Death row inmates around the world are held in appalling conditions: the cells are not suitable for a human being; the dietary regime is inadequate; and access to medical care is difficult. Not only are inmates placed in physical cruel and unusual circumstances, but their mind is also greatly affected by their situation, with many death row inmates suffering from mental illness and mental disabilities as a result of their death sentence. Executions, regardless of the method used, are cruel and inhumane. They can and do go wrong in many cases.

Source: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

Monday, September 19, 2011

Dr. Ghaseloo’s Assassination: A Case for Taking International Legal Action







Sep 17 is memorandom of assassination of another Kurdish leader Dr. Sadeq Sharafkandi. Cklara Moradian and I have done a research on the assassination of Dr.AbdolRahman Ghassemlou as a case for taking to International Legal action, which can apply for the same act from Islamic Republic of Iran.
The following presentation was provided for the conference on:
Terrorism of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the 22nd Anniversary of Dr. Ghassemlou’s Terror, July 17, 2011 Toronto
September 15, 2011
By: Soraya Fallah &Cklara Moradian
Dr. Ghaseloo’s Assassination: A Case for Taking International Legal Action
Ladies and gentlemen, first and foremost I would like to thank you for holding a conference to pay respect to the memory of prominent leader Dr. Abdol Rahman Ghassemlou who was brutally assassinated by the Iranian agents in Austria.
Dr. Ghassemlou was assassinated before he could achieve his political goals. He believed in non-violence, human rights, and the advancement of all oppressed nations in Iran.
His untimely absence and subsequent leadership vacuum was followed by a brutal campaign by the Iranian government. History has shown that his murder took the Kurdish people back many steps. The democratic process and the goal of autonomy also fell back.
June 1989, after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death, the KDPI was informed that Islamic Republic of Iran is willing to resume negotiations and find a speedy resolution to the Kurdish situation. Dr. Ghassemlou accepted this without conditions. He even compromised his preferred meeting place (which was Paris) to Vienna. He did not suspect the Iranian agents for their choice of country. In fact, Dr. Ghassemlou and Abdollah Ghaderi-Azar attended the negotiations without taking any security precautions. He was executed while planning for a peaceful solution to securing Kurdish rights in Iran.
Perhaps his willingness to meet the Iranian agents under such suspicious and unsafe conditions stems from his trust in the goodness of all people and his conviction that there is hope in diplomacy. He was so pure in his belief that human beings could come face to face and negotiate rather than fight that he was blinded to the brutality and faithlessness of the Iranian government. He wanted a peaceful solution to the Kurdish suffering, so much that he jeopardized his own safety. He was ahead of his time and ahead of most traditional leaders in the region. He had a democratic and humanistic vision and this perhaps made him vulnerable to the coldblooded acts of the Iranian government. There is no way to know where Kurdish people would be if he was not killed. How much further ahead or how much more free we would have been, but it is clear that his spirit is alive in every human being who advocates for human rights and dignity.
Distinguished guests:
I hope to contribute some useful points for further discussion. Resources and time has prevented me from being there in person but I am glad to have been given this opportunity to share this event with you through a pre-recorded video.
Due to the fact that you’re enjoying the expertise of
Mrs. Carol Prunhuberand her extensive knowledge of the life and untimely murder of Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou , I have chosen to skip biographical summary of his life from my paper. In the interest of time, I have also omitted retelling the horrific events of July 13 1989. Instead, I am going to focus on legal issues relevant to his assassination, that are also applicable to other gross human right crimes committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Links, resources, and documents sited in this paper is available upon request or after publication.

Part One: Signed but Ignored; Meaningless Signatures and Non-Adherence

First, contrary to popular belief, the Islamic Republic of Iran is not a signatory to the most important UN conventions, including the non binding declaration known as
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In 1948, when the declaration was adopted, Iran voted in favor of its passage, and subsequently on Jun 24th, 1975 signed “The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,” which is the legally binding agreement based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . However, these treaties were ratified prior to the 1979 revolution. According to the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Iran has ratified only five International humanitarian law and human rights treaties since the revolution, and has made significant reservations to a number of them. For example, according to official documents, the Islamic Republic of Iran has included the followingreservations before ratifying binding documents: “The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran reserves the right not to apply any provisions or articles of the Convention that are incompatible with Islamic Laws and the international legislation in effect.” Records of atrocities taking place in Iran under the name of Islamic Law is proof that the above statement simply means that the Islamic Republic of Iran can choose not to abide by International laws when convenient and as they see fit. In 1982, the Iranian representative to the United Nations, Said Rajaie-Khorassani, said that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was “a secular understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition”, which could not be implemented by Muslims without trespassing the Islamic law. It is safe then to argue that this statement basically means that the current leadership in Iran considers International treaties signed prior to the revolution nulled.
And since
“The international legal system has the state at its centre: the state ratifies treaties and thereby obliges itself to respect, protect and fulfill certain human rights. And it is the state that must report on its own implementation and who can be “named and shamed” in public for not doing so. Treaties specify mechanisms for how the international community can hold the state to account, frequently through exerting pressure from above, and therefore such mechanisms can be very powerful. However they can also become overtly politicized at the UN or regional fora. It is the challenge of campaigners and the courts to place this power in the hands of those whose rights have been violated by the state.”
Simply put, International conventions, signed, ratified or abstained have little practical value when the state chooses not to abide by these International mechanisms.
What is the solution then? How are international laws enforced and by whom? Does this mean that the IRI can continue to carry out atrocious crimes in impunity and without scrutiny from the International community?
Part two: Conviction in the Face of Limitations
There are some possible International institutions that Kurds can and should appeal to in order to achieve the goal of justice for Ghassemlou’s execution and other such criminal acts. Even if a tangible resolution is not found, a trial is necessary to prevent these crimes from being committed in obscurity. Despite the statute of limitations for retroactive wrongs, and the shortcoming of International jurisdiction in prosecuting extrajudicial assassinations, it is important to note that if argued effectively human right standards and international common law can be used to seek legal retribution.
Theoretically and philosophically, the limits of International law are enormous. In practicality, geopolitical interests, economic ties, and strategic alliances make reaching justice difficult, if not outright impossible. With that in mind, it is incredibly important for the Kurdish leadership, scholars, advocates, activists, lawmakers, researchers, and students to persistently pursue, push, and demand legal avenues for investigating, documenting, and prosecuting those responsible for the murder of Dr. Ghassemlou.
Possible Avenues for International legal action:
Many Kurdish people have wondered if the crimes committed by the Islamic republic of Iran can be prosecuted by the highest courts of International law. I have tried to explore this idea while being mindful of the challenges posed by these international bodies.
International Criminal Court (1998 Rome Statute)
The ICC, which is an International criminal court, began to operate in 2002 and has a mandate to try cases involving war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
Unfortunately, at the moment extrajudicial assassinations or state-sanctioned targeted attacks are not categorized as “war crimes, crimes against humanity, and/or genocide.” Advocates must argue that Dr. Ghassemlou’s assassination, in addition to the hundreds of other murders, executions, disappearances, rapes, discriminations and violations are part of a systematic, deliberate, planned, and premeditated campaign against the Kurdish population. According to the ICC, “Crimesagainst humanity encompass serious attacks on human dignity or a grave humiliation or degradation of human beings. The Rome Statute requires that these should be committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack (see article 7 of the
1998 Statute of the ICC).” The Islamic Republic of Iran can always claim that they did not have ‘knowledge of the attack’ and were unaware that they were contributing to a widespread or systematic crime. For more information: click
A body of evidence, such as eye witness accounts, expert testimony, and documents presented
by Amnesty Internationaland other credible organizations, would need to prove that the state is actually intending to commit “Crimes against Humanity.”
The ICC is a last resort and created to prosecute the most serious of crimes; therefore, it does not oversee individual cases of repression, no matter how consequential. This is not simply a burden faced by Kurds but rather all dissidents from Iran. Organizations such as
The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation are trying to document the 1980’s massacre of political prisoners as the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Crimes against Humanity.
Dr. Abdolkarim Lahiji, vice president of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues has attempted to bring an international case against the IRI since the creation of the Rome Statute. Dr.Lahiji worked extensively to document and investigate the assassination of Dr. Ghassmlou. It might be possible to present a stronger case if the assassinations were brought forth along with other instances of aggression in order to demonstrate that the Iranian government lacks regard for human dignity and the right to life.
The most significant challenge in bringing a criminal case before the court is the jurisdictional reach of the ICC, which can only prosecute crimes taken place within signatory nations or prosecute a person who committed such crimes within the boundaries of a signatory nation. This simply means that unless the crimes perpetrated against the Kurds took place in a country like the Netherlands, the court would not be able to prosecute the case. The court then becomes entirely arbitrary because leaders of non-signatory nations like the IRI can commit crimes within their territory without fear of prosecution. Only if the UN Security Council refers a case to the ICC, can the court prosecute a non-signatory nation. Being able to convince the UN Security Council to take such profound action against the Islamic republic is not an easy task, especially because the process is highly politicized by the permanent members of the council.

According to the recent report by the
UN Human Rights Council “took bold, assertive action to highlight Iran’s deteriorating human rights situation by establishing a Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Iran. The rapporteur will investigate and report on abuses in Iran and call out the failure of the Iranian government to meet its human rights obligations.” This assertion has not resulted in any tangible condemnation of the Iranian government.
Despite increased diplomatic pressure on Iran, including sanctions, IRI has refused to cooperate or allow inspections of state prisons. The politics of nuclear negotiations has complicated the International communities’ commitment to human rights.

Even if, against all odds, the Security Council decided to bring a case against Iran at the ICC, there would be the issue of domestic vs. international prosecution. The ICC “is intended to complement existing national judicial systems and can exercise its jurisdiction only if national courts are genuinely unwilling or unable to investigate or prosecute such crimes.” (Article 17 of the
1998 Rome Statute of the ICC) Advocates would have to argue that the IRI’s judicial system is incapable of carrying out an unbiased investigation into allegations of human rights abuse due to the simple fact that courts and judges in Iran are arms of the system’s executive branch and operate based on their interpretation of Sharia law. The Court’s legitimacy is wholly dependant on the cooperation of states, which is rarely, if ever present.

The basis of most International law revolves around the notion of statehood and state rights. The Islamic Republic of Iran argues that they are not operating outside the state’s existential imperative to condemn activity they perceive as threats to national security. Although this is controversial and in serious need of revision, the burden of proof will fall on the victims, who are in this case members of a stateless people without protection or representation at the United Nations. Lack of statehood is also precisely why Kurds are not able to bring forth a case before the
International Court of Justice (ICJ). “This court’s role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized United Nations organs and specialized agencies.” Since ethnic and religious communities are not considered nations, they do not benefit from the protection of the ICJ.

Other avenues of international criminal investigations and prosecutions are “ad hoc tribunals” such as the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda or the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Ad hoc tribunals; however, have a statute of limitation, which means they are subject to time and location constraints. Thus they cannot prosecute retroactively. Although the “low-intensity” war against the Kurdish population in Iran is continuous, many of the most horrendous acts were carried out within the first two decades of the Islamic republics’ birth. These acts should not go unpunished and therefore an ad hoc tribunal, for example, an investigation into the crimes after the 2009 election, will not sufficient.


Two other possible avenues for justice:

A.

Advocates can seek to bring forth a criminal case against the Islamic Republic of Iran at a domestic superior court of countries, who take on such cases. Although this is historically a rare occurrence, there is precedence for seeking this legal route. Courts in
Spain have been famously involved in international cases. This is based on the principal of “universal jurisdiction,” which states “that any national court may exercise criminal jurisdiction over serious crimes against international law—such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture—based on the principle that such crimes harm the international community (or order) itself, which individual States may act to protect.” According to Amnesty International “since the end of the Second World War, more than 15 countries have exercised universal jurisdiction in investigations or prosecutions of persons suspected of crimes under international law…[and] have extradited persons to countries for prosecution based on universal jurisdiction.”

Convincing a third party country to take on a controversial case against the IRI at a domestic court is nearly impossible due to each country’s economic, political, and security concerns. Instead, advocates might need to make a strong case for the inclusion of human right demands as a bargaining chip during
nuclear negotiations with Iran.

B.

A relatively novel but increasingly prominent idea in International law is the
RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT (“RtoP” or “R2P”), which is a “new international security and human rights norm or set of principles based on the idea that sovereignty is not a privilege, but a responsibility. RtoP focuses on preventing and halting four crimes: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing, which it places under the generic umbrella term, “Mass Atrocity Crimes”” Although RtoP is not a law, it does provide a “framework for using tools that already exist (like mediation, early warning mechanisms, economic sanctioning, and chapter VII powers) to prevent mass atrocities.”

Kurdish advocates can use these concepts to indicate the need for greater international scrutiny and pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran, arguing that not doing so will allow for the continuation of an already dire condition for the Kurdish population amounting to “Mass Atrocity Crimes.” Since both concepts are criticized as infringements on State sovereignty, a very strong campaign would be needed to convince the international community to act.

On a Final Note: Atrocity, Impunity, and Complicity; an International Collaboration

The leniency shown by the International community in the face of IRI’s crimes is a reflection of powerful political agents, which often override the demand for justice. Accurately pointed out by the
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center“there is substantial evidence suggesting that the governments of several European states were negligent (if not reckless) in fulfilling their duty to provide “effective remedy” following the murder of Iranian dissidents within their jurisdiction.”

The evidence that Dr. Ghassemlou’s murder was an unlawful execution by members of the Iranian government is overwhelming. Since Dr. Ghassemlou’s murder, there
have been dozens if not hundreds of well documented but unresolved extrajudicial executions in the Diaspora. The 1992 Mykonos restaurant assassinations of Kurdish leadership is further evidence that the Islamic Republic of Iran is systematically targeting Kurdish intellectual and political figures in order to suppress Kurdish ambitions. All this is taking place outside of Iran, in the sovereign soil of another nation, with ease and anonymity.

What is perhaps most tragic about remaining silent in the face of state sanctioned crimes is that we leave people without any place of safety or sense of security. Dissidents and political refugees seeking asylum abroad find themselves unable to reach peace. They are faced with the reality of a life full of fear, intimidation, terror, extortion, and even death. Many have witnessed their colleagues disappear or their property arbitrarily destroyed. To treat these crimes as isolated and negligible acts would be to entirely diminish the importance of human rights. It leaves citizens of every nation at risk and open to attacks by countries that choose to live outside the law. If State sovereignty is important to Iran, it should also be important to nations where these attacks are taking place. What must be loudly and clearly communicated to the world is the fact that impunity for crimes perpetrated by the IRI is not just a Kurdish issue but rather an International threat. Crimes like these should be looked at as an International crisis that merits direct and swift action. The fact that Iran has been able to carry out such crimes for 30-some years without consequences, diplomatic or otherwise, should be considered a crime of complicity.

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Monday, September 12, 2011

KURDISTAN participates in EXOTI-LUAU, MEDIA APPRECIATION & PERFECT CREATURES PRESS CONFERENCE




Right to left: Maria Amor,Soraya Fallah,Kal Fadai




soraya Fallah in Red Carpet at the program


Media in this program


Maria Amor is introducing the awards

Soraya Fallah is giving Media Award to the following:

Rita Nessian for her dedication in Kurdish Women's project

Moris Moradi,

Jessy

Gilmor

Ali Bigdeli



MS Kurdistan's Speech in the program:

Ladies and Gentlmen,

I hope you have a good time

I would like to represent awards on behalf of Green Kurdistan
Green Kurdistan is working to accomplish real change for natural roads & food production & solar.

· Our mission is pursuing the use of natural roads and highways and wish to expand to broader markets including sustainable food production, clean powered transportation, and clean energy
For any of you that wondering who we are and what we did; We are a globally active biotechnology company based in greater Los Angeles. We have been pursuing eco-friendly projects for the past 14 years and make it our goal to create concise, economically viable infrastructure solutions.

To date, our dynamic team has focused on building roads in the Latin American markets, where the need for improved infrastructure has been very high. Many in our company, including the CEO, are native to Kurdistan and have a deep personal interest in realizing the improvement of the Kurdish regions. Roads are the beginning, the first step to realizing much needed hospitals, modern infrastructure, and most importantly, schools to help build the education system.

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Our vision is to implement foundation for a thriving society based upon Californiaʼs agricultural attributes, and diverse landscapes. And the same model in Kurdish regions.
We are pleased to have your suggestion in hopes we can offer our valuable service to the Kurdish cause. We have many exciting ideas for the urbanization of Kurdistan and all other countries in the world and feel well disposed to meet their serious needs for road building.

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Let Us Grow As One Please and Fund Our Passion To Accomplish our mission and vision.

·

Hope you have a great rest of the evening







https://www.facebook.com/Ms.KurdistanSorayaFallah

Participation of MS Kurdistan as the vice president of Green Kurd in Media appreciation

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130961263659911&ref=ts



EXOTI-LUAU, MEDIA APPRECIATION & PERFECT CREATURES PRESS CONFERENCE

Location: Sunset Canyon Recreation Center

Tim

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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Kurdistan will be featured in Global independent Day celebration in Beverly Hills


On September 10, 2011Kurdistan will be featured at the Global Independence Day “Celebrating Victory of Democracy and Global Peace through Global Trade.” This event will feature more than 195 countries and hundreds of organizations. It is an all day program, complete with seminars, networking opportunities, dinner and show held at Beverly Hills Hotel, CA with appearances by important public figures and community leaders including the Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa.

Ms. Kurdistan Soraya Fallah, will be star guest in this event. She will be wearing traditional Kurdish dress for her red carpet arrival and represent the people of Kurdistan at this global gathering.

Green Kurdistan will be showcase Mr. Kalhor Fadaiekalhor Founder and CEO of KURDISTAN GREENCITY, INC in this event. an innovative revolutionary organization “committed to providing the greenest, safest and fastest mode of transportation at the lowest mobility costs, travel mile to all the nations of the world. It also aims to reduce the human carbon foot print/travel mile to protect the eco-system wherever transportation needs have to expand”.

VOK Radio will cover the event with professional photographer Mrs. Rita Nessian. Check back for photos and videos of the event in the coming week.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Kurdish community's upcoming program in LosAngeles




Southern California Kurdish Community Protests Turkey

August 31st, 2011

By: Cklara Moradian
turkey_protest_06.jpgAs part of two weeks of protests across the globe, the Kurdish-American communities of Southern California held a peaceful protest in front of the Turkish consulate in Los Angeles on Wed Aug 31, 2011. The protest was organized to condemn Turkey's recent bombardment and military operations in Northern Iraq.

It was a lively and passionate assembly with large Kurdish flags and banners. The crowd was a cross-generational gathering with a notable presence of Kurdish youth who had made witty signs such as "Make Dolma, Not War," while others held signs that condemned the killing of innocent children.

The crowd chanted "Turkey out of Kurdistan" and "No more genocide." Kurds from all parts of Kurdistan were present.

A short message was read by a member of the Kurdish youth demanding international pressure on Turkey. A three member delegation delivered a formal statement to a representative of the state department who will deliver this letter to the Turkish consulate.

The group ended the protest by singing the Kurdish National Anthem in unison.

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protest the Turkish aggression on Kurdistan in LosAngeles

by Soraya Fallah II on Friday, August 26, 2011 at 11:20pm

Time

Wednesday, August 31 · 7:30am - 2:00pm

Location

6300 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2010, Los Angeles, CA 90048

Created By

Delveen Tahir

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Please join us on Wednesday August 31st to protest the Turkish aggression on Kurdistan in Los Angeles in front of the Turkish Embassy.

Please note that this is a peaceful protest, to support Kurdish human rights.

The members of the Kurdish Community of San Diego (SD) will meet at 7:30 AM on Wednesday morning at KHRW and will depart to Los Angeles at 8:00 AM. Please note that a bus will be available for those that cannot drive

What Peaceful protest against the Turkish Aggression on Kurdistan

Where Turkish Embassy in Los Angeles

When Wednesday, August 31st from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Please inform your friends and family members about this important event.