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

Although respect for human rights including that of
children is regarded one of the basic standards of the
civilised progress those basics cannot find applications
for our Kurdish people among whom children are deprived
even from nationality or belonging to a family!! At the
time that the declaration of child rights states that (he
should have the right to have a name, nationality and
surname…), the nationality has been withdrawn from a
quarter of a million of Kurdish people among whom
there are 100 thousand children born to parents deprived
of nationality according to the census carried out in the
province of Hasaka on 5/10/1962. They were all classified
as foreigners in a precedent never seen before in relations
between a state and its citizens. In addition to that there
are large numbers of children unregistered born to a father
deprived of nationality and a mother who is a citizen as
the official courts would not allow their marriage to be
registered.
The Syrian authorities also neglect others articles of
the agreement regarding child’s rights by insisting on the
Arabisation of the names of Kurdish children and
preventing them from studying their mother tongue
although the declaration states (children from ethnic
minorities or aboriginal populations have the right to
freely enjoy their own culture, religion and language…).
We hope that through you our voice reaches the Syrian
authorities demanding justice as innocent victims of
discrimination and persecution and to stop all racist
policies and projects that confiscated our rights as children
of persecuted people in away concerning humanity and
childhood everywhere.
Our best regards
Kurdish children in Syria
25/6/2003
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