Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

and in 1963 the Syrian government applied the law of
agricultural reform all over Syria except the Kurdish part.
Thus the government tried to bring the results of the
census into practice on 10/4/1966 and as a result the
names of one hundred and fifty thousand Kurds (their
number has risen recently to 400 thousand through births)
were lost from the census files and became without a
Syrian nationality certificate. Most of those were residents
of the Syrian-Turkish-Iraqi borders, where the Syrian
government intended to apply its racist project, which
was called “the Arab Belt” and aims to isolate the Western
Kurdistan (Syrian Kurdistan) from both Northern
Kurdistan (Turkish Kurdistan) and Southern Kurdistan
(Iraqi Kurdistan) using an Arab human shield along the
international borders 375 Km long and 15 Km wide
starting from the town of Ras Al-Ain to the town of Tel
Kuchek. The objective of the Syrian government is clear
and it is to satisfy the evil desires of the chauvinist and
racist Arabs. Other than that why is it those people up to
now are deprived of the Syrian nationality that they deserve
even if they were not of Syrian origins as the Syrian
government claims as they have been living for half a
century in Syria without nationality while carrying out
all the duties of a Syrian citizen including compulsory
military service!! Only after depriving the Kurds from
the Syrian nationality, the agricultural reform was
implemented in the Kurdish areas. According to this
racist plan the government took the lands of the Kurdish
feudal landowners but did not distribute them among the
Kurdish peasants because as a result of the forged census
they were not Syrians anymore and thus have no right of
possession. So, the Kurdish lands were given to the
Arabs displaced by the Syrian government from Al-
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