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Kurdish Leadership
Console of Western Kurdistan of Syria
- March 26, 2004
The Syrian regime and its security forces are
still continuing their massacre of the Syrian
Kurds and threatening Kurdish leaders. On Friday,
March 26, 2004 The Syrian regime tortured five
Kurdish soldiers in the Syrian army, killing one
of them for attending the Kurdish celebration of
Newroz and critically injuring the other four.
Kurdish students are being expelled from the
Universities and many Kurds along with other
minorities are being arrested. Security forces
continue to occupy Kurdish cities turning schools
into military bases, imposing the continued curfew
and shooting chaotically in the streets at night.
Also, the regime arrested more than 2500 people
and they continue to arrest and torture Kurds. In
the last few days the regime brought in a special
military unit to start arresting Kurdish
leaderships. Kurds that have been killed are being
buried in undisclosed areas and family members are
not allowed to hold burials in their family
cemeteries. The Syrian regime buried 4 Kurdish
bodies in a Christian cemetery in Kamishli without
the knowledge of the families.
The Syrian constitution does not mention Kurds.
About 200,000 plus Kurds have been denied Syrian
nationality, meaning they cannot vote, own
property, go to state schools or get government
jobs. The Syrian government continues their
discriminatory actions against the Kurdish people
by these atrocities and through the media, calling
Kurds secret agents of foreign governments,
fueling the animosity between the Arabs and Kurds.
The Kurds are enduring repressive nationalism,
massive atrocities and genocide.
The Kurdish Leadership Console in Western
Kurdistan (KLC) representing major Kurdish
parties, Kurdish tribal leaders, and Kurdish
intellectuals are urging an intervention to put a
stop to these human rights violations. We are
pleading to the international communities, human
rights organizations, democratic organizations,
the free world government, and The United Nations
to step in and put an end to these contemptible
violations of human rights by the Syrian Regime
and stop the Syrian government from using violence
against the Kurds and to negotiate in good faith
with us.
We are asking for our God given rights including
social, human and cultural rights and to have the
perpetrators of these atrocities prosecuted. We
urge the unarming of Arab militia, the return of
the military to their bases, the release of
Kurdish activists (2500 people), and reversing the
Arabization policies. We also urge the US
government to consider implementing the US
Congressional punitive Law against Syria.
Released in Washington by the KLC spokesman
Sherkoh Abbas
Sherko32@aol.com
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