Dr.
Ali KILIC
Paris 05-10-2007
Adnan
Hassanpour and Hiwa Boutimar
Are in the middle
from world Day against the death penalty
On October 10 marks the world Day against the death penalty. On the
initiative of the world Coalition against the death penalty, of the
organizations of the whole world organize around on October 10 of the
initiatives to say NOT TO the DEATH PENALTY and the demonstration
against the death penalty will take place in Paris Manifestation in front of
the embassy of Iran! Appointment with 11H00, in front of the embassy of
Iran, Franklin Boulevard Roosevelt,
For us the writers and the intellectuals of Kurdistan, more particularly of
the departments of Dersime and Kotchgiri, this day has a particular
importance because, we have a painful past on the death sentences. In the
declaration of the Provisional Government of Kurdistan we note that the
government kemalist had condemned to died more than thousand combatants. In
1925 Seyh Said Efendi is hung with 47 resistant Kurds for the freedom and
the independence of Kurdistan
Seyh
Said and 47 combatants are hung on June 25, 1925
On the five
continents, in particular in countries which continue to apply the death
penalty, petitions, round tables, press conferences, exposures, plays,
visits of condemned to death are envisaged in more than one hundred of
country. But nobody put the question of hangings of the combatants of our
resistance of Dersime on November 17, 1937 to El Aziz about the order of
Mustafa Kémal initially Seyyid Reza and Aliyé Mirzaliyé Silemani was
hung.
Aliyé
Mir Zaliyé Silemanî, during the arrest by the soldiers Turkish
Hung with Seyyid Reza “death is nothing for us, the man born one day, dies
another food our resistance”,” ters çik o, merdene çik a ?
mordem rozé beno, rozé mîreno, perodaise
ma wes vo! ”
Seyyid Reza with his/her comrades before being hung November 17, 1937
The world Day against the death penalty is the occasion to recall that the
death penalty is an act of revenge which could not fall under a process of
justice. Vain and nondissuasive to prevent the crime, the death penalty is
generally marked at the end of lawsuit during which the rights of defense
and the guarantees of an equitable justice were violated. It St right, but
our combatants of the resistance of Dersime do not have tombs the bodies are
burned on the order of Mustafa Kémal, criminal, person in charge for the
genocides of the Armenians, the Greeks, the Kurds and Dersimis.
In
1946 the President of the Republic of Mehabad of Kurdistan Ghazi Mohammed is
hung by the Iranian sanguinary mode with the others dirigéants Kurdish
Today,
the nations of the world plan to put an end to the death penalty while
calling with a universal moratorium on the executions. Everywhere, citizens
and governments must decide to say not to the death penalty by supporting
this initiative.
• The right to the life is inalienable and null authority could not decide
death of a human being. Following the example torture, the execution is a
physical and psychological aggression extreme. The physical pain felt by a
human being during its execution cannot be quantified. Justice is never safe
from the miscarriage of justice. But the death penalty is irreversible and
can be applied to the innocent ones.
• The death penalty does not have more effect on the rate of criminality
than any other punishment.
• The death penalty is an act of revenge which, basically, legitimates the
violence of State.
• The death penalty is discriminatory and generally strikes the stripped
people, the mental patients and the people resulting from racial, ethnic or
religious minorities.
• The recourse to the death penalty lets think that a human being can lose
any value and become irremediable, and that it is acceptable to kill in
certain circumstances. A government must protect the human life and not
destroy it. In the large majority of the cases, the death penalty is marked
following inequitable lawsuits. It often applies on the basis of
“consent” obtained under torture.
• The international law tends towards universal abolition and encourages
the States to abolish the death penalty
Today, 130 States abolished the death penalty in right or in practice.
In 2006, executions were listed in 25 countries; 91% of them having taken
place in a small number of them: China, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan and the
United States.
A movement is from now on moving: the objective of a world without death
penalty becomes accessible.A resolution of the General meeting of UNO will
not be enough to prevent a State from carrying out an execution, the
resolutions not being juridically constraining.
A
resolution of the General meeting of UNO will not be enough to prevent a
State from carrying out an execution, the resolutions not being juridically
constraining.
However, a firm call of the highest political authority of UNO, the General
meeting, in favour of a moratorium on the executions would have a
considerable moral weight.
It would constitute an invaluable asset to convince the reticent States to
institute a moratorium, stage important on the way of universal abolition.
The long-term objective of fight with regard to the General meeting of the
United Nations is the adoption of resolutions on the capital punishment
including/understanding of the provisions improved gradually, which would
make it possible to support the world countryside for a world without death
penalty.
The long-term objective is to bring all the States: to remove any reference
to the death penalty in their penal legislation so that this sorrow cannot
be pronounced any more by a court - to ratify the international treaties
which prohibit the recourse to the death penalty in all circumstances.
- This is why the world Coalition counters the death penalty devoted the
edition 2006 of the world Day to the topic: “Failures of justice”.
This edition resulted in more than 450 local
initiatives in 47 countries. The Day was officially supported by the
European Union and the Council of Europe. On the whole, 145.142 signatures
were collected for five condemned to the death emblématiques ones of the
failures of the justice which the Coalition at the time of this 4th edition
wanted to denounce: death sentence of innocent, discriminatory application,
not respect of the equitable lawsuit, treatments cruel, inhuman and
degrading during detention and the execution, and finally death sentence of
mentally handicapped persons.
Composed
of ONG, of lawyer Bars, of local communities and trade unions, the world
Coalition against the death penalty, created in Rome on May 13, 2002, aims
reinforcing the international dimension of the combat against the death
penalty, and at contributing to put a final term at the death sentences and
with the executions. The world Coalition in particular endeavours to
facilitate the constitution or the development of national coalitions
against the death penalty. Since 2003, the Coalition founded on October 10
like world Journée against the death penalty. Hundreds of local initiatives
proceed on the five continents, with a topic dominating each year. The world
Day, in particular supported by the European Union, contributes to diffuse a
universal message in favour of abolition. Day counters the death penalty:
the world decides
The world
Day counters the death penalty of October 10, 2007 will stress the draft
Resolution submitted to the General meeting of UNO. The proposal envisages a
universal moratorium on the executions, in order to save lives and to allow
the populations States retentionists to note that the suspension of the
capital punishment does not involve a rise of criminality in their country.
A resolution emanating of the political body most important of the United
Nations would constitute an international event determining of the
countryside for the abolition of the death penalty in the world and would be
equipped with a considerable moral fibre. - This initiative right now
received the support of 5 million people in the world including the People
of Kurdistan.
Dr.
Ali KILIC,
Paris 05-10-2007