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Kurdish conscript Khalil Bozan Sheikh
Muslim is one of the new victims of killings in
mysterious circumstances in the Syrian army
12.12.2009
By Khalaf Dahowd and ekurd.net staff
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December 12, 2009
(ekurd.net), Khalaf Dahowd, — According to the
Kurdish organization for the Defence of Human Rights
and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, the family of
conscript Khalil Bozan Sheikh Muslim were handed
their son’s body on Tuesday 8 December 2009. The
family lives in Kobani town in the Kurdish region in
Syria that falls into the province of Aleppo. He
served in the military Faculty of Engineering which
is stationed in the governorate of Lattakia, and had
been serving for only four months when, according to
the Syrian authorities, he committed suicide with a
fatal bullet to the head.
The source also reported that Khalil Bozan Sheikh
Muslim had told his family one day before his death
that he was under significant pressure, and was
bring subjected to ill-treatment by his superiors.
He asked his family to help him find a way to change
the place he was serving.
According to the same source, disclosure of the
victim’s body showed that there had been two shots
in the head, and this raises serious doubts about
the credibility of the official version. This is not
the first time we have heard of conscripts dying in
suspicious circumstances.
Abdul Karim Rehawi, a human rights activist,
President of the Syrian Defence of Human Rights
Association said in his statement to Syrian
Observatory of Human Rights in UK that there should
be an immediate investigation into the death of this
young man.
Khalil Bozan’s death brings the number of deaths
amongst conscripts to thirty-three, since the
uprising on 12 March 2004, of which sixteen died
this year in similarly mysterious circumstances:
1. Mohammed Bakker Sheikh Dadda
2. Barkhoddan Khalid Hammo
3. Ahmad Saadoon
4. Khabat Sheikhmous
5. Ahmed Abdulrahman Khalil
6. Malik Akash Shaabo
7. Mohammed Omar Khedir
8. Mahmood Mohammed Helli
9. Hokar Rasul Hesso
10. Ahmed Mustafa Ibrahim
11. Ahmed Arif Omar
12. Suleyman Farrokh Diko
13. Firas Badri Habib
14. Rezan Abdulkarim Meeranah
15. Saddiq Hosein Mussa
and Khalil Bozan makes sixteen.
More than 2 million Kurds live in Syria, comprising
nine percent of the population. They have long
sought official recognition of the Kurdish language
and culture.
The Kurds live in Syria (Syrian Kurdistan), mainly in the
north bordering Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan region.
They comprise nine percent of the population and
have long sought official recognition of the Kurdish
language and their culture.
Future Movement advocates democracy and equal rights
for Syria's one million Kurdish minority. The
Kurdish language is not allowed to be taught in
schools and tens of thousands of Kurds were denied
citizenship after a 1960s census.
Freedom of expression remains tightly controlled in
Syria, and security forces have sweeping powers of
arrest and detention.
A total 1,500 people were arrested for political
reasons in 2007 and hundreds more who were arrested
in previous years remained in detention,www.ekurd.netaccording
to rights group Amnesty International's 2008 report.
International Support Kurds in Syria Association –
SKS
Web: www.supportkurds.org
Email: info@supportkurds.org
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