Good afternoon comrades. Best regards to Lonko Facundo Jones Huala’s mother. My name is Abu Muad. I am excited as listening to the comrades speaking about the conviction on their heads. It is an honor to have been in Middle East fighting alongside with the Syrian and Libyan people, putting my head to the pillow to sleep without knowing if the next day I would wake up alive or dead because of the bombs that feel through the skies. So I share that feeling of going to sleep without knowing if the following day we will be with our families or not.
From the paper The Truth of the Oppressed we have been doing the work of the whole Middle East, where we try to give voice to those without voices. Today is a day to fight for the freedom of the political prisoners. I think it is necessary to raise the voices of the prisoners of Homs, where some time ago it was the capital city of the revolution, with over 200 thousand people marching against Bashar’s regime. Unfortunately, Bashar took that city back and there are many comrades imprisoned under the worst conditions. Thy are comrades that have been occupying that prison demanding some improvements. We have to understand that Bashar’s regime is nothing more and nothing less than a Videla in Middle East. If you are not killed by a bullet or a bomb or a tank, you get disappeared and if not you end up in the rotten jails where you get triple torture. It is needed to tell the occupation of this jail because it happened a month and a half ago by a set of demands. The comrades refuse to be transferred because they know that to be transferred means to get lost in the way, for them to be stepped down from the busses that are transferring them and to never hear from them again.
To speak about Middle East also means to talk about Palestine. The capital city of Palestine is Jerusalem and it is being declared by imperialism as the capital city of the Israel Zionist fascist state, which keeps on killing the Palestinian people and imprisoning. They have over 7000 Palestinian prisoners in jails. In this struggle, there is also another onewhich is the political prisoners of the Palestinian cause who spent most years in jail. He is George Ibrahim Abdallah. He has been in jail for 34 years. He sends his greetings from prison, throughout his collective. He sent a letter as he is deprived from freedom. He is Lebanese, not Palestinian and was incarcerated in France by imperialism. I will read his letter.
In 2014 one of the worst reactions on Gaza strip is unleashed, with over 2000 Palestinian killed. We have to recognize the Palestinian heroic resistance, who took care of 130 Israeli soldiers. But we have to consider that it was not only because of the Palestinian resistance but it was international solidarity from all the capital cities of the planet that they marched every day and clashed with the police of their own states for Palestine. In hundreds of cities, there were actions for Palestine and that caused Zionism, a fascist, the US imperialism gendarme in Middle East, to stop the aggressions on the Palestinian people. We know that this was also the bravery of the comrades of Las Heras, that rose and said enough! “we are not afraid of you”, but we also have to understand that it was thanks to an international solidarity action that embraced them from outside, even from us from Syria sent our salutations and we raised our fists for the comrades. We think that the international struggle is the best way to achieve the freedom of the comrades, of Lonko Facundo Jones Huala, we feel the best way for the poor peasants of Mapuche people to have their lands back.
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