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Ship sinks with Syrian Kurdish asylum
seekers onboard in the Aegean sea, five children and
young people die
27.10.2009
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October
27, 2009
DEYRIK, Syrian
Kurdistan, — A report has reached us from Yeliki
Media that a ship has sunk carrying asylum seekers
from Izmir, Turkey to Greece causing the death of
dozens of people, including five children and young
people from Deyrik town in the Hassaka region in
Kurdistan of Syria.
The children are the sons
of Mohsen Khalaf Jarro:
• Ali Mohsen Khalaf Jarro, nine years old
• Salah Mohsen Khalaf Jarro, six years old.
• The other three are young people from one family,
the sons of Abdul Rahman Rammo:
• Mohammed, Abdel-Rahman and Diyala aged between 18
and 22 years.
The final number of victims who were on board this
ship when it sank is not currently available,www.ekurd.netbut
the number of Kurds from Syria who died in this
tragic incident is likely to rise.
These children died escaping from the persecution of
Kurds in Syria. Families are becoming desperate due
to an increased clampdown on all Kurds by the
authorities:
• The decline in the construction industry in the
Kurdish area as a result of Decree 49;
• The wasted agriculture in the Kurdish area due to
a combination of drought from lack of rain and the
withholding of water to the area by Turkey;
• The continued policy of denying 400,000 Kurds
their rights to citizenship which leaves them
stateless;
• Stateless people cannot move around the country,
nor can they leave the country legally;
• Stateless children are denied the right to
education;
• People are being arbitrarily detained without
trial.
Kurds are being forced from their ancient homelands.
Many go to the cities, but others try to leave
illegally because they have no choice … and children
are dying.
International Support Kurds in Syria Association –
SKS
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