About 25 People made on 6. May in the center of Kassel became aware of the attacks on the Mexmûr refugee camp. The Kassel group of the Association of Students from Kurdistan (YXK) had called for the rally on Königsplatz. The night before, reconnaissance planes had circled over the camp and bombs had fallen nearby.
Maxmur is in the Kurdish part of Iraq and is only formally a refugee camp. With his about 12.000 inhabitants, it is actually a small town. Mostly Kurdish families from Turkey live there, who fled to Iraq in the 1990s to avoid the destruction of their villages by the military.
Because there, as in Rojava, democratic self-government is practiced, For about nine months, Maxmur has been under an embargo by the southern Kurdish authorities under pressure from Turkey. In addition, the camp was repeatedly the target of attacks, most recently by a cell of the "Islamic State", but also by the Turkish army.
A photo gallery of the protest can be found on Flickr. Link
