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

Ghumar areas to replace the Kurds as part of the racist
Arab belt project.
In the beginning of 1967 the Syrian authorities started
the second stage of their racist project by carrying out
armed raids against the Kurdish villages to terrorize the
Kurdish population into leaving the Kurdish border areas
and replace them with Arab subjects.
The Syrian government actually did this and started
with the heroic village of Ali Fro, but its population
challenged the Intelligence and police officials by sitting
in front of the Syrian armed and military vehicles and
declared: run over us and kill us but we shall never leave
our place. So, the authorities arrested more than two
hundred Kurds from that village, the majority of whom
were women and children. They were driven to Hasaka
prison with their blood flowing from the intense beating
with rifle butts and boots of the chauvinist Arabs. Faced
with this stand of the heroic Kurdish masses the Syrian
authorities reviewed their method of implementing their
project of Arab belt and resolved to another method by
settling the Arab subjects in the area and building
exemplary villages for them beside each Kurdish village
giving them the lands of the Kurdish village and supplying
them with water, electricity, supply institutions, all
services and every other public services necessary for
modern life, while depriving the Kurdish village from
such services. In addition those Arabs were given arms
and exempted from military services as the Syrian
government regarded them as being in the front against
the second Israel as the Arab chauvinism enjoys calling
Kurdistan.. Is Kurdistan really a second Israel? Or they
with their racist policies are creating a second Palestinian
tragedy!! Thus since 1967 the Kurdish people on the
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