Kurdish Rebel Wants International Trial

Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan told a German news program that he wants to stand trial on terror and murder charges before an international court. Such a court could determine “if we or the Turkish government are responsible for the war against each other, in which many thousand people have died on both sides,” he said in an interview with station ZDF. Ocalan, the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, was arrested Nov. 15 in Rome, where he remains under police guard. Turkey wants to extradite him, and he is seeking asylum in Italy. In Turkey, police arrested 105 members of the country’s main Kurdish party after they began a three-day hunger strike in protest against a widespread police crackdown.