“Ara Toranian “Yes we support you in your fight! “
Speech from the co-chair of the CFC, Ara Toranian in support of the call of the Federation of Associations of France Kurds
Saturday, August 16, at the call of the Federation of Associations of France Kurds (FEYKA), supported by several Yezidi-Kurdish organizations, the French Communist Party, Kurdistan-France, MRAP, NPA, CCAF etc., nearly 1,200 protesters this gathered in Paris, facing the St. Lawrence Church, near the railway station of the East. A procession then headed Place du Chatelet chanting “We are all Yezidi! , “” Genocide alert “,” Free Ocalan! “. Several speakers took their turn, calling the attention of the international community on the crimes committed in Iraq by jihadists LEILL against civilians.
Berivan Akyol, Kurdish activist, close to three PKK militants, killed Jan. 9, 2013, called on the international community to adopt sanctions against state sponsors LEIIL. It also calls, “the West and the United States to act quickly,” adding “As Amnesty International has said, it really is inadequate compared to the drama that is taking place there.” Moreover, Berivan Akyol expects the international community, the PKK, which is currently struggling against the Islamic state, be removed from the list of terrorist organizations and the release of its leader Abdullah Ocalan. Organization, she said, which is now a bulwark against Islamic invasion; whose legitimacy. Expressing close to all minorities, activist says that no one can remove, neither Christians nor Muslims, Armenians, Kurds, Yazidis, Assyrian-Chaldeans from their land, “living there for millennia. “
In solidarity with the Yezidi cause, Ara Toranian, co-chair of Armenian Organizations of France, expressed the “sense of dread and indignation of the Armenian community before these mass crimes entrenched in the area for the Empire Ottoman “. He praised the strength of the Kurdish people “that provides a de facto protector to all people who live on their land arms” without being in the same religion.
In his speech, Ara Toranian exclaimed: “Is it acceptable that 100 years after the Armenian genocide, it is the opportunity to see this sad spectacle of refugees fleeing their own land to escape the destructive effects of an ideology as violent as retrograde. “
He also recalled the fate of the Armenians, Assyrians and Chaldeans, Pontic Greeks, Yezidis, Alevis and Kurds persecuted on different fronts and different countries. And “all other things being equal, numerous Turks who also had their share of suffering.”
“When you kill a Christian or a Muslim for what he is or what he believes, it is all the bleeding area,” said he hammered; adding “it is all of humanity back. “
Co-Chair of the CFC concluded his speech justifying the support of the Armenian community to the call of the Federation of Kurdish Associations France by “convergence based on values, not on mere reflexes caste.” “Yes we support you in your fight! “Has he said finally,” because you are yourselves in danger, but also because we continue to defend a vision of the interests of the region to which we are attached. A vision that requires respect for all peoples who live there and also those who, temporarily perhaps, are living longer. “
Source: http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=102485