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NATO Hero Erdogan hosts Genocide in Syria – Over 70 murdered by Turkish drone strikes in 2023-

West and Russia ignore Turkey “carrying out deadly operations, and violating the civilians’ right to life, ..all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law“.

from thefreeonline July 12, 2023 by North press agency and thefreeonline

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Turkish Drone Killings in 2023… Introduction:

After the Turkish invasion of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Tel Abyad in 2019 and the forced displacement of over 300,000 individuals, Turkey and the US announced on October 17, 2019, a ceasefire agreement followed by a Russian-Turkish agreement on October 22, under which the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) withdrew from the region.

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Subsequently, Turkey initiated drone strikes from within its own borders against northern Syria. In 2020, the first such attack targeted Syrian government forces in Idlib, followed by strikes on civilians in northeast Syria, where its first two victims were recorded in the city of Qamishli.

Turkey’s drone warfare began in 2020 but reached its peak in 2022 following Turkey’s desire to carry out a new invasion against north Syria which was met with rejection from the international community.

The number of drone strikes in 2022 reached 90 strikes that targeted the population, civilian objects, and infrastructure.

Although the total number of civilian casualties was relatively small compared to the number of military personnel from the Syrian government forces and the SDF, the drone strikes directly targeted civilians which resulted in deaths and injuries, including women and children.

These attacks have inflicted significant psychological, physical, and economic harm on the affected individuals and their families.

The dangerous and systematic Turkish violations of human rights in Syria, not abiding by and implementing its extraterritorial obligations, threatening the security and stability of north Syria, carrying out deadly operations, and violating the civilians’ right to life, are all a violation of the international human rights law and international humanitarian law and must be investigated and held accountable for.

Casualties of drone attacks

During the first half of 2023, Turkey attacked north Syria with 34 drone strikes, leaving behind 73 casualties, killing 44 individuals and injuring 29 others. The number of civilian victims constituted 27 percent of the total toll of victims.

Our department recorded 20 civilian casualties of these drone strikes. Among these, 12 were killed, including six women and a child, and eight were wounded, including a woman and three children.

The drone attacks also killed a Russian soldier and injured three others, and left behind 28 casualties among the SDF, including 20 dead and eight wounded. The government forces also suffered 17 casualties, including 10 dead and seven injured……………….

Read full detailed report HERE https://npasyria.com/en/100994/

Peru- No Justice for Juliaca Massacre as Coup Resistance Resumes / Our Reporter

from thefreeonline on 11th July 2023 Marc Gavaldà at AlertaAmazonica via La Directa – original HERE in Catalan)
Justice for 19 state killings never arrives in Juliaca

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Chronicle of the day of tribute to the victims of the revolt against the government of Dina Boluarte in Peru. The act is a preview of the mass mobilization that will take place on July 19 under the name “Tercera Toma de Lima”

The coffins traveled through the streets of Juliaca on Sunday, July 9, six months after the massacre | Oriol Tolrà

Juliaca is a commercial population of 260,000 Quechuas and Aymaras on the Peruvian plateau.

Last January 9, after a Christmas truce, the mobilizations were reactivated against the impeachment of President Pedro Castillo and against the government they consider “illegitimate” of Dina Boluarte, which, with the support of the elites and parties of the oligarchy took power and started an unprecedented repressive spiral.

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That day, in Juliaca, the protests that encircled the Manco Kapac airport were repressed by an indiscriminate police action, with live fire weapons that caused the death of seventeen people and hundreds of injuries.

Six months later, the relatives organized a vigil for the martyrs and demonstrated with coffins around the city.

They carry portraits of loved ones and a cardboard reproduction of coffins with name, age, profession of victims. photo: Oriol Tolrà

There is an atmosphere of tense calm pointing to the new national mobilization, called for July 19 under the slogan of the “Tercera Toma de Lima” THE THIRD OCCUPATION OF LIMA

Killers stand around as victims lie in the street

Fifty kilometers from Juliaca, Puno is the Aymara capital of Peru.

On the coastline of Lake Titicaca, after the massacre, the city led an unprecedented stoppage of activities that lasted four months. Peasant communities organized themselves in shifts by age and gender to maintain the roadblocks and the blockade of businesses.

Beyond the massacre of our brothers in Juliaca, the racism of the government was fought, which went so far as to state that “Puno is not Peru”.

Today there are not many traces of the mobilization, although there is an atmosphere of tense calm pointing to the new national mobilization, called for July 19 under the slogan of the “Third Takeover of Lima”.

The different communities, in extraordinary assemblies, are deciding these days to join the protest.

In this city we meet Max Nina, a young amateur journalist who traveled that sad January 9 to Juliaca.

His photos shot in the crossfire went around the world. Contrary to the official version that criminalized the demonstrators, the bodies of dying boys and girls were seen, transported on motorbikes to city squares turned into dispensaries, where they ended up bleeding to death in the face of the impotence of the population.

Many people suffered the impact of pellets in the back and stray bullets, even if they did not participate in the protests. Nina claims that she feared for her life, hearing the whistling of the projectiles against her skin.