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

7. Continuous arrest of Kurdish patriots, for example the
arrest of Haj Deham Mero and his companions in
Syria for more than 15 years without trials and
eventually releasing Haj Deham because of the old
age and illness. Many of the Kurdish political prisoners
were murdered such as Dr Hamid Sino or given drugs
to make them ill including mentally as it happened to
Mr Bahjat Muhammad who came out of prison with
his mind lost after he was the first of his class during
studies.
8. On 21 March 1986 the Syrian authorities prevented
the Kurds from celebrating their national feast
“Nawruz”. The Kurds organised a peaceful
demonstration in the streets of Damascus to protest
and when the demonstrators approached the President’s
palace the guards shot at them killing a young man
and injuring dozens of the Kurds.
9. The Syrian authorities burned 72 Kurdish prisoners to
death in the Kurdish town of Hasaka on 23/3/1993.
10. There are hundreds of schools in Syria today teaching
languages such as English, French, German, Spanish,
Armenian, Turkish, Farsi and Hebrew, but there is no
even one school in Syria to teach the Kurdish language.
11. The great Kurdish uprising in Western Kurdistan
that started on 12/3/2004 is a beginning of the path
for the independence of Western Kurdistan from the
Syrian occupation.
12. The Syrian constitution dose not recognise the
existence of the Kurds and uses martial laws and extra
ordinary acts against them. The number of the Kurdish
political prisoners is always in thousands and even
those who demand a Syrian nationality as it happened
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