Genocidal Turkey celebrates Nazi-style collective punishment of Kurds

Kurdish city of Nusaybin: no, not nuked but obliterated by Turkish airforce

Last weekend Turkish flags were raised above the ruined city of Nusaybin as a sign of victory over the Kurdish population that once lived there. The city was destroyed because President Erdogan – a dictator by deed – wanted to assert his authority over the Kurds and to punish them for the resistance to that authority by the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party). The obliteration of the city was not just an act of revenge but collective punishment, reminiscent of the Nazis during World War II when in retaliation to local resistance whole villages were burnt to the ground and local people executed.

Now we are seeing ethnic cleansing on a scale not witnesssed since the breakup of Yugoslavia. And just as UN peacekeepers were shown to be ineffective to stop massacres, such as Srebenica, so today the UN…