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Police Raid Kurdish Camp in South Netherlands,
Arrest 29
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Dutch police raided a camping
ground in Liempde, in the south of the Netherlands,
and arrested 29 people suspected of being members of
the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is labeled a
terrorist group in the European Union.
National law enforcement officials led the raid,
said Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the police. The
camp may have been a paramilitary training center
for the Turkish group, he said.
The action isn't linked to the Nov. 10 siege of a
house in The Hague, when special forces arrested two
suspected terrorists after they injured three police
officers with a hand grenade, De Bruin said. It also
has no connection to the Nov. 2 murder of Theo van
Gogh, in whose killing a suspect with dual Moroccan
and Dutch citizenship has been held, he said.
Kurdish rebels have fought against Turkey a
two-decade war of independence at the cost of more
than 30,000 lives, most of them Kurdish. The
rebellion has largely subsided since the 1999
imprisonment of rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan. The
rebels in June ended a unilateral five-year truce
with the Turkish army.
To contact the reporter on this story:
Evalinde Eelens at eeelens@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor of this story:
Chris Collins at collinsc@bloomberg.net
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