Abdullah Öcalan:

My Concept of Freedom is the Freedom of Peoples

There is a special peculiarity to Dersim. Here is an extended conference of Alevis being and I would like to make a couple of points in this regard.

The culture of Dersim is an Alevi culture. They've had a culture of resistance for over five thousand years, that is, their culture of resistance has been going on since the Horians. Those who belong to Dersim, either live there or in the diaspora, should represent the real meanings of Alevism and work on them. It is possible to meet up with these circles. Dersim has to be addressed within its historical heritage. For Dersim I suggest the following: A democratic commune special for Dersim could be developed, for Dersim needs its special commune. they could also establish their own city assembly, which would comprise one or two hundred people. For they did not gain anything from that Alevi conference because these will not give anything to the Alevis. Those who organise such things are the remnants of an empty liberalism.

Appeal to Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, international human rights organisations and Governments to secure the release of Mr. Mohammed Said al-Omar in Syria.

Unofficial information has been received from the Adra Central Prison in Damascus: Mr. Mohammed Said al-Omar, member of the Leading Committee of the Kurdish Azadi Party who has been detained by the Syrian authorities since 26.10.2008, has had a stroke whilst in prison and been taken to Ibn al-Nafis hospital in Damascus as a result of paralysis on the left side.

Kurdish Newroz 2709 (2009), in Syria:

Kurdish Yekiti Party in Syria – Committee of UK branch

Last year on 20 March 2008, 3 Kurds were shot dead by the Syrian authorities as they celebrated the New Year – Newroz – in Qamishli.

On 12 March 2009, the fifth anniversary of the killings during the Qamishli uprising in 2004, 30 university students were arrested in Alepo for commemorating this day. Four of the students are still missing – Bahzad Muslim, Kawa Deqo, Alan Hussein and Abdi Rami.

On 16 March two Kurds disappeared off the streets in Damascus, kidnapped by the intelligence security – Fouad Hassan Hussein born 1982, from Durbassia town and Maher Sattam Hussein, a student of geography at Damascus University.

Twenty-six Kurdish demonstrators arrested in Syria during ten minute silent protest about human rights abuses.

 Information from MAF - Human Rights Organisation in Syria and Foad Aleko- Secretary of Kurdish Yekiti Party in Syria- announced today, 28.2.2009 that at 11am, Kurds came out onto the streets of al-Jazeera in the Kurdish region of Syria to hold a silent ten minute demonstration in the street, to protest about the legislation Decree 49 that further removes their basic human rights. 

This is an international call to all people and organisations concerned about human rights, especially to the United Nations, and the Governments of America, United Kingdom and Europe

on the third anniversary of the martyrdom of Sheikh Muhamed Maschuk al-Khznawi

 
On 10^th May 2005, in the Syrian capital Damascus, Sheikh Muhamed Maschuk al-Khznawi,  a well-known Kurdish man disappeared. Three weeks later on 1^st June 2005, Syrian authorities informed his family that a terrorist group had abducted and killed him under torture and that he was buried in a cemetery in the town of Deir al-Zor. The Authorities then brought individuals known to the Syrian security services to make confessions as a diversion, so that the real offender, the ruling Ba’athist regime would be acquitted. This would bring down the curtain on a heinous crime against an innocent and peaceful citizen, whose action was to call on the public for democracy and tolerance, on behalf of the oppressed Kurds.

The Authorities could not hide their dislike of Sheikh Muhamed Maschuk al-Khznawi’s democratic activity, and his bold criticism of the Ba’athist regime regarding their use of violence against the sons of the Kurdish people during the course of their compulsory service in the Syrian army, in order to annihilate them with live bullets and torture in prisons. This problem increased after the uprising of Kurds in Qamishlo following the fascist conspiracy of 12^th March 2004.  Al-Khznawi had already been receiving threats before his abduction by the security forces.

In spite of the push for urgency from the Kurdish movement, attempts by human rights commissions and the demand for impartiality and transparency regarding the investigation of this crime, the Syrian regime is still insisting on concealing the progress of its investigations despite the passage of three years, and is concealing the true circumstances of this crime.  It is also refusing to inform his family’s lawyers of the results of the investigations.

We, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the assassination of the martyr al-Khznawi call on all democrats in the world, to Parties, Governments and Human Rights organizations to force the Syrian regime to ensure that there is an investigation into the circumstances of this heinous crime and to prevent this from ever happening again to unarmed Kurds and human rights activists.

Co-ordination Committee of Kurds in Syria

Committee Abroad

28 May 2008

An urgent message to the world's conscience
Silence about the war is a contribution in it

Mr. Ban Ki-Mun United Nations Secretary General
Silence about the war is a contribution in it

Away from delving into the backgrounds and the details of the current fierce war in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan, and without mentioning the justifications of the parties involved in the conflict, war at its best, and no matter how high its justifications and objectives are, is the most egregious and the most heinous act and dirtiest kinds of human history, due to its role in killing, displacing of innocent people, erupting hatred and prejudices and sick tendencies in human beings and due to the destruction it causes to nature. The war is a disruption of the minds and is an activation of hatred in the hearts. It is a destruction of the civilized and peaceful coexistence and communication between human beings. Accordingly, warmongers, its makers, its proponents and those who are silent about it, are the enemies of humanity. Therefore, they should be disclosed, countered and deterred.

We, the Intellectual Union of Western Kurdistan, strongly deplore and condemn all wars in the world, and the Turkish military invasion in particular. We consider it as a flagrant violation of the international law and all norms and international conventions and doctrines of human rights and a flagrant aggression on the sovereignty of a founding member of the United Nations and the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. We appeal to all world governments, international institutions and bodies, and we call the conscience of the civilized world, not to remain silent in the face of this dirty war and not only to denounce and condemn it but to interfere quickly and effectively to put an end to this human tragedy which has continued for more than a quarter century. We also urge the Turkish State to find a peaceful, democratic and just solution to the fair Kurdish issue in Turkey that satisfies all the parties, and keep away from dealing with it by setting up wars and killing and treating it by iron and fire. We consider this as a moral, humanitarian and a legal duty upon all relevant international institutions, referred to. The atrocities of the war, the size of its brutality, and the targeted values of goodness, love and beauty of human beings dictate this. We consider any silence or inaction in the completion of this grave and civilised responsibility as emptying the international institutions of their utility and content, and we consider it as a participation in this war, and pushing the world towards the law of the jungle.

The Intellectual Union of Western Kurdistan

My Prison, my Home

A film by

Mano Khalil

2009

As a part of the Al Anfal operation, which lasted from the end of March till the end of September 1988, Saddam Hussein’s security forces imprisoned hundreds of Kurdish families in the Nizarke prison and in various other prisons also. Under Saddam, these prisoners awaited death and dreamt of freedom. Saddam’s fall saved many of them from death. However, when the long awaited freedom finally came, there was nothing left for them except to make their cells their homes.

Because their villages were completely destroyed and they lost all their possessions, these families now live in their former prisons and again dream of a different life.

Letter to "Mr. Ban Ki-moon," the Secretary-General of the United Nations
The eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

ou go to the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights blessing your efforts and you at the helm of the United Nations that respect and son of its efforts to strengthen freedom of the peoples of our planet which we live, and the interests of peace and international justice and the embodiment of what this declaration of human teacher told Sam at all levels Everywhere and at any time, and its terms of the thirty-contained Universal Declaration of Human Rights Sixty years ago the international community and adopted on 10 December 1948, which was a landmark in the history of human society in full.

Statement to global organizations and international institutions for human rights

When Mr. Meshaal Al-tamo (the official spokesman for the Kurdish Future Movement in Syria) driving his private car-type (Geley) No. 570202 white-colored car, from the city -Ain AlArab- (kobany) traveled to the city of Aleppo, where he had left the house of the lawyer Radeef-Mustafa the Chairman of the Kurdish Committee for Human Rights, after leaving the house , and during the traveling , he was arrested also his car and concealment by Syrian security authorities, at 2:30 AM , and His fate remains unknown.

 We believe that the Syrian security authorities, though not announced his arrest on as usual in both political detentions, was arrested and had to hide, especially since the morning of that day, specifically, the region witnessed heavy security measures inside the city of -Ain Al-Arab- and even outside the doors to Aleppo, in anticipation of the celebration of PKK founded in 15 / 8 / 2008, this is disregarded the feelings of his family and all his people.

 Undoubtedly, the insistence of the security authorities to non-recognition by arresting Mr. Meshaal Al-tamo , similar to previous cases has not been announced for a long time, which in its content, it's a clear violation of citizen's right to life and freedom movement, but is one of the most heinous human rights violations, this arrest, and concealment Exists, without any order from competent authority, outside the framework of law and a violation of the Syrian constitution, as well as that such behavior  runs counter to international legitimacy for Human Rights and all international covenants and instruments binding.

there is growing concern among the Kurdish community on the arrest and concealing personal Kurdish national presence known with a broad, given the existence of previous cases of the Syrian regime in such cases, without disclosure.

Therefore, we wish ,from you all, need to move fast and speedy and pressure on the Syrian regime to uncover the fate of political activist and opposition National Syrian engineer Meshaal, and his immediate release as well as the release of all detainees of opinion and political prisoners and prisoners , like Mr. Mohamed Moussa secretary Leftist Kurdish party in Syria.

21/ 8 / 2008

- Kurdish organizations for human rights.

- Kurdish Future Movement in Syria.

www.kurdfuture.com