Archive for the ‘Syria’ Category

HRW to Syria: Investigate Killing of Kurds

Hold Accountable Those Responsible for Unlawful Killings
Human Rights Watch (New York, March 24, 2008) – Syrian authorities should seek an independent investigation into the March 20 shootings by security forces that left three Kurds dead and at least five wounded at a New Year’s celebration, Human Rights Watch said today. The circumstances of the shootings [...]

The crisis of Syrian Kurds

Excerpt from today’s Evening Bulletin:
[The regime of Bashar Assad] re-launch the campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Kurdish region of Hasakah. The Syrian press, controlled by the regime, prevents access to the foreign press, and the abuses of the Kurds have gone practically unreported. News of the ethnic cleansing is arriving almost exclusively through letters [...]