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The search for oil in the regions of Gabar Mountain in Şırnak (Şirnex), Turkey has led to widespread deforestation and the destruction of villages.
#SaveKurdistanNature | #DeforestationCrisis | #EcologicalJustice
https://medyanews.net/from-lush-forests-to-barren-land-oil-exploration-devastates-gabar-mountain-in-turkey/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/medyanews_/status/1690392168710455296

"es gibt eine Gruppe, die ein erhebliches Interesse daran hätte, dass die Kur­d*in­nen nie wieder in ihre Dörfer zurückkehren können. Umweltorganisationen und die Menschenrechtsorganisation Hengaw werfen der sogenannten iranischen Revolutionsgarde gezielte Brandstiftung vor."

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IRGC troops have been burning the forests around Mariwan for several weeks.

1- Darreh Varan, Nachi, Anjiran, Haneh Sheykhan, Mirgah-e Derizh 1086 hectares 2- Masidar, Kulit
Gomareh Lang 304 hectares 3- Asenabad, Maraneh, Bayveh 645 hectares. According to Green Chya Association estimates, about 2035 hectares of forest were burnt in the Mariwan area. The Green Chya Association estimates that around 2035 hectares of forest have been burnt around Mariwan. According to reports on social media, the fires have reached the mountainous areas of Kermanshah and Ilam, and there have been numerous reports of fires in some rural and mountainous areas of Sardasht, Kamiyaran and Baneh. Hundreds of thousands of dedicated people interrupted their daily work and rushed into the forests to extinguish the fires.
Human and financial resources were sent from different cities in Kurdistan to help contain the fires.

It must be remembered that the capitalist system is not only an economic system but also implements measures of domination and exploitation. The economic and apolitical view of the environmental issue under the rule of the Islamic Republic is a clear deviation. With the construction of dams and water transfer projects, the Islamic Republic of Khuzestan has pursued a policy of forcibly relocating the Arab population to the outskirts of the central cities, turning them into cheap labour along with cultural decay. By plundering the mines and making the Kurdish-speaking population unemployed, it is pursuing a policy of division between the Kurdish-speaking and Turkic-speaking populations. By plundering the mines of Balochistan and impoverishing the Baloch people, it is pursuing a policy of impoverishment and subjugation of the Baloch people. And by burning the forests of Kurdistan, it is realising the scorched earth policy and breaking the will of resistance and struggle of the revolutionary people of Kurdistan. The environment in Iran is related to politics and especially to the issue of national oppression.

When we look at the government's security measures against environmental activists and journalists, we see the same reality. The murder of Kavos Seyyed Emami in Evin prison, the suspicious death of Sharif Bajaur and his colleagues in the Zagros forests, the death of Mokhtar Khandani and his colleagues due to the explosion of unexploded landmines during the Iran-Iraq war, the arrest, detention and torture of dozens of environmental activists and journalists for exposing their activities. The anti-economic, anti-nuclear and anti-environmental policies of the Islamic regime are part of the political and security measures of the domination of capital against the environment and its defenders. The occurrence of this huge number of forest fires in several places at the same time and on the eve of the anniversary of the revolutionary uprising of Jina cannot be coincidental or far from the macro and security policies of the Islamic Republic. The large-scale and coordinated attack on the ecosystem of Kurdistan, the successive chemical attacks on schools, the widespread alcohol poisoning in the cities and all the other widespread attacks on nature or a part of the society are undoubtedly the result of a conscious and organised policy of the Islamic Republic. The arrest of five volunteer firefighters in Mariwan, namely Dalir Mohammadi, Alan Ardeshiri, Azad Rouhi, Laigh Ahmadi and Sarkawt Ebadi, is a continuation of the widespread arrests that were carried out just before the anniversary of 23 August in order to prevent the revolutionary uprising of the masses.

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