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Syrian opposition agreed to award the
Kurds the right of self-determination
5.7.2007 |
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Dr
Jawad Mella and Dr Rifaat Al-Asad : We agreed to
award the right of self-determination to the Kurds
of Syria.
July
5, 2007
Announcement by Dr Jawad Mella President of the
Western Kurdistan Government to the United Press
International regarding a way to solve the Kurdish
cause in Syria that delighted all the liberation
lovers of Kurdistan and distressed the enemies and
agents. The following is the announcement as
published by Al-Marsad Al-Sury:
“President of Western Kurdistan Government”
announces a pact with the United National Assembly
lead by Dr Rifaat Al-Asad, the former Deputy
President of Syria.
Mella: We agreed to award the right of
self-determination to the Kurds of Syria.
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Dr Jawad Mella who established the Western Kurdistan
Government in Exile (L). Former Deputy President of
Syria Dr Rifaat Al-Asad (R) |
The Kurdish opposition
activist Dr Jawad Mella who established the Western
Kurdistan Government in Exile announced a new pact
with the former Deputy President of Syria Dr Rifaat
Al-Asad who leads the United Nation Assembly in
order to found a true Syrian opposition and activate
its actions.
In an interview with the United Press International
Mella said: we had two meetings with Dr Rifaat Al-Asad
the last one was in the last month in his house in
London during which we discussed the broad lines of
the pact and we agreed to go back to Syria, we also
discussed the ways to solve the problems of the
peoples in Syria that have been ignited by the
ruling Baathist regime (and added) we presented a
number of points and thoughts as a foundation for a
stable pact and a real opposition on the basis of
our mutual belief that the (deserted former Deputy
President of Syria) Abdulhalim Khaddam and the
Moslem Brotherhood are not serious in finding any
solutions for the Syrians, Arabs or Kurds, because
Khaddam was part of the regime itself and one of its
founders and also the Brotherhood in my opinion are
more chauvinistic and racist than Baath, I think
that they are Baathists wearing Islamic cloths and
turbans.
Mella uncovered that he had agreed with Rifaat Al-Asad
that “there is a Kurdish people as well as Arab
people in Syria”. We also agreed to “award the Kurds
in Syria the right of self-determination, and
working towards the formation of a Syrian parliament
abroad with both main nations Arabs and Kurds to
establish a Government in Exile in a later stage”.
The Kurdish opposition activist said “at the moment
we are working to hold a general conference for all
the Syrian opposition activists and movements abroad
with the exception of the Salvation Front lead by
Khaddam”. He anticipated that the conference should
be held in London during the coming few weeks.
Mella was asked whether the suggested pact between
the Kurdistan National Congress that he declared to
contain opposition Kurdish activists and
organizations and the United National Assembly was
ub response to the opposition Salvation Front
established by Khaddam and the leader of Moslem
Brotherhood Ali Sadraddine Al-Bianooni and other
opposition personalities last year, he answered “our
pact is not in response to the Salvation Front but
to their activities as opposition in general and
their attitude towards the Kurds especially, as they
in the Front say that Kurds are our brothers and
they have some distinguished Kurdish members with
them”. He said “this is a simpleminded talk rejected
by the Kurds, had they been sincere in their
tendencies the Salvation Front would have announced
awarding the Kurds in Syria the right for
self-determination”.
Mella described accusations against him by some
factions of the Syrian opposition that he has
separatist tendencies by “not accurate” and regarded
their surprise of his pact with a nationalist
assembly “illogical”. He said “basically, I demand a
Kurdish identity that allows the Kurds to maintain
their personality, foundations, traditions and
culture, and rule themselves by themselves.
Unfortunately, the totalitarian thought of the
region and especially of the Baath regime would not
allow this identity and would not even allow
awarding us the Syrian identity that we have been
asking for, for the past 40 years”. Mella added
“this denial of the existence of the Kurdish people
is leading us to extreme views and because of it we
are accused of separatism. In reality it is the
regime who caused the situation by isolating,
marginalizing and denying the existence of three
million Kurds”.
He stressed that “he is asking for the identity of
the Kurdish people within the borders of one future
Syria” but he admitted “he supports the independence
for the Kurds in the present situation of Syria
because of their continuous subjection to
persecution and oppression”.
He said “if the time comes and there was a situation
that guarantees the right of self-determination for
the Kurdish people such as in the pact that we have
agreed to with Rifaat Al-Asad, and there was a true
citizenship and admission of the existence of the
Kurdish people as people and not a minority, then we
leave out our tendencies (pointing out that the pact
with Rifaat Al-Asad) would be finalized after coming
to the final agreement in the aftermath of the
general conference planned in London.
Mella supported the existence of Rifaat Al-Asad
among the ranks of the opposition by saying “I as a
Syrian Kurdish opposition believe that he is playing
a real role as an opposition different from the role
of Khaddam, because he has his own political,
military and popular strength in Syria and he
intends to activate his role inside the Syrian
opposition after forming the pact (he
indicated that) in later stages he will discuss with
Rifaat Al-Asad whether this pact would take the way
of national reconciliation with the regime or
demanding its fall”.
Published by Al-Marsad Al-Sury in Arabic language
** 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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