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Old Kurdish Syrian singer Eli Tico is
missing!
5.2.2008 |
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Syria regime seems to be afraid even by old Kurdish
singer.
February 5, 2008
Efrin, Syrian Kurdistan,-- The 'Dengbje'
(traditional singer) Elî Tico has been arrested, 2
weeks ago by Syrian services. Until now, his family
and friends don’t know nothing about his situation.
Eli Tico is 71 years old and suffers of heart
diseases.
According to his relatives in Aleppo, the singer has
received at his home a delegation of Kurdish singers
from Southern Kurdistan (Northern Syria). |
71 years old Kurdish singer from Syrian Kurdistan |
Syria has probably considered it was an act of
“separatism” threatening its borders and the
integrity of the Great Arab Nation… So police made a
raid in his house,www.ekurd.net
sacked it and took the
old man. After having been interrogated in the
Center oo Aleppo, he was sent to the Head Quarters
of Mukhabarat (Intelligence Services) in Damascus,
and then no one knows what happened to him.
Elî Tico is a well known artist borned in Kurds’
Mountains (Çîyaye Kurmanc) of Afrîn. He is one of
the famous classical 'dengbej', singing a hundred of
epics and songs. One of these are a praising to
Sheikh Said and the revolt of 1925.
If Elî Tico is not released soon and alive, will
there have a new “Xiznewî Case” or another “Newroz
2004” in Syria ?
Moreover, this arrest is not the only act of
oppression against Kurds since the beginning of the
year. Six Kurds have been condemned by the High
Court of Damascus : 4 were charged to have
“attacked” Syrian police in demonstrations in
Aleppo,www.ekurd.net
during the last Newroz
and their punishment is from 7 to 10 years of
prison. 2 others were condemned to 2 years for
belonging to an “extremist organsiation”. As they
have already spent 2 years in prison, they have been
just released.
Roj Bash| northerniraq info/blog | efrin net
** 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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