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Ocalan may be called as witness in Dutch
trial of suspected Kurdish rebels
31.5.2005
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THE HAGUE, May 30 (AFP) - 20h49 - Jailed Kurdish
rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan may be called as
witness in the trial of 14 Kurds accused of having
run a separatist training camp in the Netherlands,
the Dutch ANP news agency reported on Monday.
The court in S'Hertogenbosch in the center of the
Netherlands does not view Ocalan's imprisonment in
Turkey as a reason not to grant a defense request to
call him as a witness, legal officials told the news
agency.
Dutch police last November raided a suspected
Kurdish Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) rebel training
camp in a small village of Liempde and other
locations, initially arresting 38 people.
No date has been fixed for the opening of the trial.
The next procedural hearing is set for July.
The PKK, founded by Ocalan, waged a bloody campaign
for Kurdish self-rule in the region between 1984 and
1999 before calling a unilateral ceasefire, which it
abandoned last year. The conflict has claimed some
37,000 lives.
Ocalan was sentenced to death for treason in 1999,
but the sentence was converted into life
imprisonment in 2002 and he has since been the sole
inmate of the prison island of Imrali in
northwestern Turkey.
AFP
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