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More disappearances of Kurds in Syria
9.11.2009
By Khalaf Dahowd
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November 9, 2009
ALEPPO, Syrian Kurdistan,
(ekurd.net), — Nashat Mustafa Hanan, a 45 year old
Kurd from Aleppo in Syria who works in the defence
industry for the Syrian Government, has been
subjected to harassment and was called into many
interviews from the time of last year’s Newroz
festival in March 2008. Newroz is celebrated around
21 March every year. It is the Kurdish New Year, a
festival time when Kurds remember their history, and
celebrate their Kurdyeti (Kurdishness) by holding
parties in large tents and dancing on the stage. In
Syria, the Government threatens Kurdish political
parties at this time that their supporters should
stay at home, suddenly there are no tents for hire,
the stages that have been erected are bulldozed, and
many people are arrested. There is clear Government
interference in the festival.
The Human Rights Organisation in Syria – MAF –
informs us that Nashat Mustafa Hanan disappeared
from his city of Aleppo on 27 October 2009 in the
hands of Political Security. His family know only
that he has been transferred to the Political
Security department in Damascus.
International Support Kurds in Syria Association –
SKS – is concerned at the growing number of reports
concerning political abductions of Kurds in Syria,www.ekurd.netpeople
held incommunicado for long periods of time without
trial, and the continuing intimidation of the
Kurdish community in their ancient homelands. This
is held in place by the State of Emergency.
At the same time, the doors to the international
community are being opened for the Syrian
Government, by both European Union and by Turkey for
example.
International Support Kurds in Syria Association –
SKS
Web: www.supportkurds.org
Email: info@supportkurds.org
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