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What about the forthcoming elections in
Syria?
28.3.2007
By Kawa Rashid, Amsterdam |
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March 28, 2007
The year 2007 holds significant benefits in Syria,
where he is expected to hold legislative elections,
which will elect 250 members of the legislative role
IX, which will extend four years. Then will be
organizing a referendum on the new mandate of
President Bashar al-Assad after the legislative
elections, and it is expected that the referendum
should be held in May 2007 in addition to this,
there are local council elections, which will take
place mostly in summer .This is the second in
benefits under the rule of Bashar Assad since he
took power in July 2000.
With the approach of the date for legislative
elections, the interested public affairs of the
Syrian province made it probable spectrum of
political opposition, given the absence of
indications that the separation of these elections
its predecessors, and the absence of law allowing
the establishment of political parties, non-party
parties and groups allied to him, where a new law of
associations and political parties demand of the
opposition, Ksoaha to enjoy in other countries of
the world legal status, as well as questioning the
fairness in the light of the continuation of the
state of emergency, and the prosecution of political
activists and intellectuals, and to insist that the
Baath party leader of the state and society, and the
failure to approve a new election law.
As Syrian Kurdish opposition Jzahama of Syrian
opposition parties and the majority Maussatha has
called for a boycott of the elections and believes
in holding any elections free and fair legislative
one of these means to find practical solutions and
sound of the issues in the country, including
finding a democratic solution to the just Kurdish
cause in Syria.
The policy of segregation and discrimination in the
Kurdish areas in various stages of the electoral
process clear and evident as follows :
The continuing tragedy of hundreds of thousands of
our Kurdish people who are the victims of racial
statistics were stripped of their Syrian and
deprived of all their rights, including their right
to contest the vote, although they are Syrian
citizens from their fathers and grandfathers.
The Kurdish voter in Syria, rather than to allocate
a number of seats in Parliament to represent the
equivalent of the population, the share of
parliamentary seats in the Kurdish areas is lower
than that of other, less populous provinces of their
region.
The procedures interference in the voting and
counting process and the will of the voter fraud
across the different pressures more severe and the
intensity in the Kurdish areas.
Not to mention the most important issues to deal
with the issue of national unity and civil peace in
the country lightly, despite the passage of three
years since the bloody events of March which claimed
the lives / 27 / martyrs and hundreds wounded and
thousands of prisoners, the authorities continue to
deal with the Kurdish people the same mental
chauvinism still file away in March the treatment
trial where the victim rather than the prosecution
of offenders.
The Syrians have the right to live in dignity and
confidence in themselves and the state to which they
belong, and to enjoy freedom, social justice and
political participation, but the question of how
that might be achieved through the wishes of the
next important benefits, and could revive hope with
the return of politics to society not to a lack of
confidence in benefits, even on a theoretical level
at least. Some think the loss of confidence in the
political system, despite the fact that the Syrians
have a latent patriotism and belonging to the
homeland, to defend him, and Mskonon always hope a
better future.
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** 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.
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