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communist militants are unaware of the scale of the disaster. The
more reports of martyrs that PKK militants hear, and the more
weeping mothers they see, the more their devotion to the organi-
zation grows and is strengthened.

Condemnation along the lines of "How monstrous you are!"
always delights the communist. He imagines that by behaving in
a monstrous way, he is abiding by Lenin's legacy to him in the
most perfect way. The more frightfully he behaves, the better he is
implementing communist ideology. Feelings of pity for the enemy
are regarded as a betrayal of communist thinking.

Therefore;

Although the military measures we look at throughout
this book are indeed necessary and important to the national
fight against terror, they can never rep-
resent a definitive solution to the com-

munist terror in Southeast Turkey.

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