Murdered Kurdish conscript Najm al-Din Hassan Daallo is the fifth victim of the Syrian army in 2010.
The body of Najm al-Din Hassan Daallo was returned to his family on 7 June 2010. He was born in Afrin in 1991, and had been stationed for his military service in the Syrian army in a military unit stationed around al-Raqqa.
He joined the service three months ago, and after he finished training he was deployed to the en-Essa battalion in al-Raqqa. Three days later, the army reported that Najm al-Din Hassan Daallo committed suicide during a night patrol.
The death of Najm al-Din Hassan Daallo brings the number of Kurds who have been killed during this year in mysterious circumstances to five.
This phenomenon is causing panic and distress amongst Kurdish families who fear for the fate of their children whilst they perform their obligatory service in the Syrian army.
Media Institute of West Kurdistan Society – Afrin
10 June 2010
Another Kurdish conscript dead in Syrian army
Another Kurdish soldier serving in Syrian army has died in a suspicious manner. Since the beginning of this year 4 Kurdish soldiers have died in suspected circumstances.
According to Syrian army, on 27th of May, the Kurdish soldier Hesen Mihemed Dero, who was serving in Hercel district of Damascus, has died. Apparently he had committed suicide during his duty. The family of Dero, after receiving his body on 30 of May, said that there ware traces of torture on the body and especially his head appeared to have been crushed.
Dero is not the first soldier to die under suspect circumstances in May of this year. On the 6th of May the body of Kurdish soldier Xebat Hesen Eliko from Efrin was received by his family. Eliko was serving in the Syrian army, at the border region of Iraq. Syrian army said that Eliko has died as a result of an accident. Both its soldier friends and family said that there were bullet holes in his chest and back and traces of beatings on his hands. Read more
Concluding observations of the UN Committee against Torture SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
Committee against Torture
Forty-fourth session
26 April – 14 May 2010
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 19 of the convention
ADVANCE UNEDITED VERSION
Concluding observations of the Committee against Torture
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
1. The Committee against Torture considered the initial report of Syrian Arab Republic (CAT/C/SYR/1) at its 937th and 939th meetings (CAT/C/SR.937 and 939), held on 3 and 4 May 2010, and adopted, at its 951st meeting (CAT/C/SR.951), the following concluding observations.
A. Introduction
2. The Committee welcomes the submission of the initial report of Syria, which, while generally following the Committee’s guidelines for reporting, lacks statistical and practical information on the implementation of the provisions of the Convention and relevant domestic legislation. However, the Committee regrets that the report was submitted 5 years late which prevented the Committee from conducting an analysis of the implementation of the Convention in the State party following its ratification in 2004. Read more
Third Kurdish conscript in 2010 to die in suspicious circumstances in Syria
The family of Khabat Hassan Aleko, born 1991 in Afrin, a Kurdish conscript, received his body on Thursday 6 May 2010. He was serving compulsory military service in the Syrian army in one of the border outposts, in the area of Albu Kamal on the Syrian border with Iraq.
Khabat Hassan Aleko had completed his army training four months ago, and was then sent to the border. His fellow soldiers who were with him during an exchange of fire said he was injured on the right and left sides of his chest, and on his hand. He suffered and died of his injuries. Read more
Continued killing of Kurdish conscripts in Syria
According to Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD, a Kurdish conscript Issa Baki Khalaf , born 1991 in the Kobani area was killed whilst engaged in compulsory military service with 15th platoon stationed in Adra province. His family received his corpse on Sunday 10 January 2010, and they were told that he had committed suicide by shooting himself. He had complained of ill-treatment and the severity of corporal punishment inflicted by a senior officer in a telephone call to his family the day before they received the news of his death.
Syrian Committee for Human Rights- MAD has previously issued statements expressing concern about the increasing number of Kurds killed as serving soldiers in the Syrian army, under the pretext that they have committed suicide. We continue to demanded that this series of deaths is investigated, so that the families of the conscripts can be reassured about what happened to their loved ones, and those responsible can be brought to justice.
We repeat again that if there is no investigation by the authorities, this will have a negative impact on the relationship between citizens and the military establishment.
Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD
Kobani, 14 January 2010
Kurdish conscript Khalil Bozan Sheikh Muslim is one of the new victims of killings in mysterious circumstances in the Syrian army.
According to the Kurdish organization for the Defence of Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, the family of conscript Khalil Bozan Sheikh Muslim were handed their son’s body on Tuesday 8 December 2009. The family lives in Kobani town in the Kurdish region in Syria that falls into the province of Aleppo. He served in the military Faculty of Engineering which is stationed in the governorate of Lattakia, and had been serving for only four months when, according to the Syrian authorities, he committed suicide with a fatal bullet to the head. Read more
