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Syria arrests Kurdish leaders and
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Open
letter to all governments, human rights and
International organisations
December
13, 2007
Qamishlo, Syrian Kurdistan,-- Security
security forces on Sunday December 9,www.ekurd.net
have arrested Kurdish
leaders and dozens of other Kurdish and Syrian
political personalities and human rights and civil
society activists.
The following people were arrested:
- Mr Ismail Omar, the leader of the Unity Democratic
Kurdish Party in Syria (Yeketi).
- Mr Muhammad Ismail, member of the political bureau
of the Democratic Kurdish Party in Syria.
- Mr Pir Rostam, the reserve member of the
leadership of the Democratic Kurdish Party in Syria.
These arrests by the dictatorial and racist regime
of Syria just one day prior to the anniversary of
the international declaration of human rights on
10/12 of each year show the regime’s clear disregard
to the principles of that declaration and a
challenge for all of those who adopt these
principles and ask for their active implementation.
By this act the Baathist Syrian regime is
accelerating its definite downfall just like its
sister regime of Iraqi Baath destined to hell and
the worst kind of fate.www.ekurd.net
These desperate measures
of the Syrian regime would do nothing except
increasing its isolation and getting closer to
trials more humiliating than those of Saddam and his
henchmen and its trials for the assassination of the
former Lebanese president Rafiq El-Hariri is just
the beginning of the end.
Dr Jawad Mella, President Western Kurdistan
Government in Exile
Western Kurdistan Government, WKA, Palingswick
House, 241 King Street, London W6 9LP
Tel: 0208 748 7874, Fax: 0208 563 8406, Mobile:
07768 266005
www.knc.org.uk email: wka@knc.org.uk KNC@ribrahim.de
** Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria
making up 10% of the country's population i.e. about
two million.
Kurds in Syria often speak Kurdish in public,
unless all those present do not. Kurdish human
rights activists are mistreated and persecuted. No
political parties are allowed for any group, Kurdish
or otherwise.
Suppression of ethnic identity of
Kurds in Syria include: various bans on the use of
the Kurdish language; refusal to register children
with Kurdish names; replacement of Kurdish place
names with new names in Arabic; prohibition of
businesses that do not have Arabic names; not
permitting Kurdish private schools; and the
prohibition of books and other materials written in
Kurdish.
More about Kurds in Syria - (Kurdistan-Syria)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
** Since 1991, the Kurds of Iraq achieved self-rule
in part of the country. Today's teenagers are the
first generation to grow up under Kurdish rule. In
the new Iraqi Constitution, it is referred to as
Kurdistan region. Kurdistan region has all the
trappings of an independent state -- its own
constitution, its own parliament, its own flag, its
own army, its own border, its own border patrol, its
own national anthem, its own education system, its
own International airports, even its own stamp inked
into the passports of visitors.
** Kurds are not recognized as an official minority
in Turkey and are denied rights granted to other
minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently
granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and
education in the Kurdish language, but critics say
the measures do not go far enough.
The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan" Southeast
Turkey.
Others estimate over 40 million Kurds live in Big
Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey.
Turkey is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds, some
of whom openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media. The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish alphabet has led
to judicial persecution in 2000 and 2003
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan
but unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag
is banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it
is a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey)
wikipedia
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