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

areas by changing the Kurdish names of villages to Arabic
names and thus Derek – Tel Kuchek – Chil Agha became
Al-Malikia – Al-Ya’rubia – Al-Jawadia successively.
There is not enough space to mention all the racist crimes
and unjust emergency laws against the Kurdish people,
as even those Kurds who have the Syrian nationality are
regarded as second class citizens.
After implementing all their racist projects the Syrian
authorities resolved to buying sick personalities of the
Kurdish society and formed cartoon organizations for
them allowing some of them to criticize the authority
about miser issues that have nothing to do with the Kurdish
cause. This was in order to control the Kurdish youth
and receive monthly reports regarding their movements
in exchange for wages.
However, the Syrian government failed in its policy
of discrimination, pursuing, imprisonment and oppression
of the Kurdish people because of the heroism of the
liberty lovers of Kurdistan. I mention few examples:
In the beginning of 1969 I was present in one of the
open trials in the state security court of Damascus, which
was trying the great activist Apo Osman Sabri (19).
I would like to give evidence for the sake of the truth
and history regarding the heroism and patriotism of Apo
as he created a heroic image reflecting the heroism of his
martyred uncle Shukri Agha. As the attorney general of
the state security court asked him: what sort of work do
you do in the party? Apo answered him with a loud
courageous voice: I am the leader of the party. Then the
attorney general stood up and hit the table in front of
him saying: are you still the leader (..meaning that how
could you say such a thing in front of us, the poor attorney
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