We will explain why French imperialism is attacking us and why we must resist, through the words of the judge in the case where Ilgın Güler was tried in France:
“WE KNOW YOUR GOAL IS TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM IN TURKEY, BUT YOU ARE TARGETING IMPERIALISM, AND WE ARE AN IMPERIALIST COUNTRY.
THEREFORE, YOU COULD TARGET US TOO.”
In other words, the judge says: You are anti-imperialist, and we are imperialist. That is why they are depriving us of our right to asylum, and that is why we are resisting. They are fulfilling the duties of being imperialists, while we are fulfilling the duties of being revolutionaries.
France has a bloody, occupying, and colonialist history. They want to continue this criminal history without any obstacles in their way.
Just as they have done in Libya, Syria, Palestine, and Iran—massacring peoples, occupying countries, exploiting lands. They want to drag in their collaborators and make them presidents and do all of this without resistance.
But we will continue to stand in their way. We will not allow them to exploit or oppress people as they wish.
France has always tried to portray itself as the most democratic country. It is known—or rather, wants to be known—as the symbol of “neutrality,” “justice,” and “human rights.”
But France’s history clearly shows otherwise. France is one of the leading states in terms of attacks, occupations, massacres, rape, sabotage, assassination, and exploitation, especially against the peoples of the Middle East and Africa.
Its legionnaires and secret services are organised specifically for such occupations and attacks.
It is a country that, at one time, went so far in torture techniques that it became a model for others around the world.
In Europe, it is one of the countries most involved in and supportive of xenophobia and racism.
- France established extensive colonies in Africa, Asia, and South America. In these colonies, inhumane practices such as repression, persecution, slave trade, and forced labor were carried out against the local population.
- France played a major role in the slave trade and transported millions of Africans to the Americas as slaves.
- On July 25, 1920, the French army—largely composed of troops recruited from Senegal and the Maghreb—occupied Damascus with 90,000 soldiers.
- That same year, it sent occupying troops against the Soviet Union.
- In Anatolia, it occupied the Antep-Maraş region, burning hundreds of villages and killing thousands of people.
- The areas it controlled in the Middle East remained under martial law until 1925. Military investments in the region were ten times greater than civilian ones.
- In November 1944, Senegalese soldiers who had served in a sniper battalion returned home after the war and requested their due rights and unpaid wages. In response to this innocent demand, the French gendarmerie opened fire, and according to Senegalese historians, hundreds of Senegalese soldiers were massacred.
- Before withdrawing in 1946, the French army bombed Damascus, killing 500 people
- France remained a colonial power in Lebanon for many years and shares responsibility for all the exploitation and massacres that took place during that period.
- In Madagascar, in 1947, it carried out a massacre against people who rose up demanding freedom—killing 40,000 Malagasy people.
- In the second half of the 1950s, France developed a special relationship with Israel and became one of Israel’s main sources of support against the Arab peoples.
- When the Algerian National Liberation Movement began in 1952, France responded with full brutality. After a 10-year war, it massacred 1.5 million Algerian patriots and razed hundreds of villages and towns.
- During World War II, France cooperated with German fascism and remained passive while thousands of French revolutionaries and patriots were murdered.
- In 1956, France, alongside Britain, invaded the Suez Canal.
- In 1967–68, it used mass violence against French workers and students; hundreds were injured and arrested.
- France invaded Vietnam and lost the battle in 1954 and then the USA tried and they lost too. By the end of the imperialist invasions in 1975, it caused the death of 2 million people and left behind the infamous “tiger cages” and scorched, devastated country.
- In 1991, France followed U.S. imperialists into the “Desert Storm” operation against Iraq and became an accomplice in the massacre of 100,000 Iraqis.
- France invaded Rwanda and instigated inter-tribal warfare. During this occupation, between 500,000 and 800,000 Rwandans were killed in just one month.
- It is responsible for the murder of Machoro in New Caledonia, for sinking the Greenpeace ship, and for the killing of a journalist.
- France is one of the main contributors to global environmental pollution. It continues to conduct nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean.
- It played both a political and military role in the war that fragmented Yugoslavia and led to the massacre of Yugoslav peoples.
- France has carried out operations against revolutionary organisations worldwide, including in Turkey, and has made arrests.
- Alongside Spain, it launched joint operations against ETA, which was fighting for the independence of the Basque region.
These states and terrorist organisations are the very centres of terrorism against the people, and most of the crimes against the peoples of the world are found in their records.
According to official figures, France has killed 4,730,000 people in total.
France’s nature has not changed.
THIS IS THE KIND OF COUNTRY WE ARE RESISTING—AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO RESIST!
WE CALL ON EVERYONE TO SUPPORT THIS RESISTANCE!
THOSE WHO RESIST, WIN—
THOSE WHO DON’T, ROT!
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