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Kurdistan-Turkey: Kurdish women mourn
Zapatistas' Comandante Ramona
15.1.2006
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statement from the Kurdistan Free Women's
Movement—on the German-based website
Hezen Parastina Gel, apparently linked to the
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerilla movement in
eastern Turkey—notes the passing of Comandante
Ramona of southern Mexico's Zapatista National
Liberation Army:
On the occasion of the unexpected and painful death
of Commander Ramona
January 9 2006 - We are in deep mourning about the
death of the Zapatista freedom-fighter Ramona. As
Kurdish women we would pronounce our condolences to
all freedom-loving people and in particular the
Chiapas Community.
Ramona is a symbol for the women's liberation
struggle of suppressed peoples. Her guiding role in
the uprising of San Cristobal has made clear to the
world that women of all nations take their destiny
in own hand and do not surrender to injustice. The
determination, the courage and strength which
commander Ramona - in spite of her severe illness -
has emanated in her struggle for freedom and human
dignity have shown that the desire for independence
of women can be detained by nothing. Her insisting
efforts for the draft and the implementation the
"revolutionary women's laws" of the EZLN shows that
the organized women's struggle can create a
revolution within the revolution. As Kurdish women
we know from the experience of our own liberation
struggle only too well how much strength and
perseverance this requires.
Revolutionaries like commander Ramona or Kurdish
freedom-fighters like our comrades Beritan, Ronahi,
Berivan, Zilan, Silan, Nurcan and countless other
women fighters have proved with their personalities,
their lives and struggles that that women's
liberation struggle cannot be delayed on "after the
revolution", but has to start here and now. Hereby
these women have created the fundament of hope and
courage for millions of women, men and children in
the whole world who are in search of freedom,
justice and human dignity.
The success of the "Other Campaign " of the EZLN;
the realization of the Democratic Confederalism in
Kurdistan; the origin of any ecological-democratic
order which overcomes patriarchal ruling structures
will also be a result of the fight of these women
and will show that another world is possible!
Commander Ramona will live on in our hearts and
struggles for freedom, democracy and justice.
Libertad, Democracia y Justicia!
Kurdistan Free Women's Movement
www.ww4report.com
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