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
Kurdish expatriates on State Security Service list
KURDWATCH, June 5, 2010—As already reported, at the beginning of May the State Security Service forwarded lists with the names of people living abroad to the civil register offices in al?Hasakah province with the stipulation that those listed could only be issued identification papers and other documents if the intelligence service named had granted the appropriate permission. In addition to al-Qahtaniyah (Tirbesipî), KurdWatch meanwhile could also obtain the list of names from the civil register office in ‘Amudah.
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
Y.A.S.A. Report April 2010
YASA monthly report – April 2010 here
Content:
• Arrest of the young Kurd Resho Abbass Ibrahim
• German authority arrested Syrian Kurd asylum seeker to deportation
• Remove many farmers’ names from equal-wage records and the rent
contracts
• Arrest of several Kurdish citizens in Raqqa city after Newroz events
• Prison sentences on five members of Kurdish Yekity Party
http://www.yasa-online.org/yasa-en/reports.html
Fouad Aleko reports that Syrian state security is closing in on the Kurdish activists abroad
Fouad Aleko, a member of the Political Committee of the Kurdish Yekiti Party in Syria revealed that in May, the Syrian State Security ordered that people whose names are on a list names of Kurdish activists abroad should not be given any identity documents or papers by the civil registry without the consent of State Security.
Fouad Aleko informed “Quds Press International News Agency” that the aim of these procedures is to put pressure on the Kurds to stop their political activities abroad, and he said: “We understand that families of people who are known to be active abroad who have applied for documents at the civil registry have been verbally informed about this decision, but have not been given it in writing. We see this as a direct response to these political activities, and a message to all those who engage in political work abroad that they are held accountable and will be harassed “.
Quds Press Service
28 May 2010
Unknown fate of dozens of detainees from the Kobani area
Many Kurdish citizens living in Kobani and the nearby villages have disappeared since their arrests this year. Security agents make arrests but do not disclose their whereabouts.
Aziz Burkel Khalil, born 1962 in Kobani was arrested by the criminal security service on 14 February 2010. He has heart disease.
On the same day, Bozan Abdelkader Bozan, born 1958 in Kobani was arrested by the criminal security service and his family have not been given information about where he is being held. He previously suffered a stroke and bleeding in his brain.
Two other men were arrested on 8 May 2010:
Anwar Mustafa Mahmoud, born 1975 in the city of Kobani. He was arrested by the Air Intelligence branch which is notorious for the brutal treatment of detainees.
Mahmoud Mohamed Kulja Nebo, born 1970 in Kobani was arrested by a joint patrol of the security services and his fate is still unknown since his arrest.
This pace of arrests and raids which has affected dozens of Kurds in their homelands serves to intimidate people, and to discourage them from demanding their legitimate rights.
Media Institute of West Kurdistan Society – Kobani
26 May 2010
Arrest of Mohamed Abdi Saadoun, member of the Political Committee of the Kurdish Azadi Party in Syria
Mohamed Abdi Saadoun, member of the Political Committee of the Kurdish Azadi Party in Syria, was called through the Education Department to go for questioning by the State Security department in Qamishli on Thursday, 20 May 2010.
He was born in 1960, and is a teacher in Deyrik. He is married with seven children. His whereabouts are unknown.
Home of Kurdish citizens raided in al-Raqqa
An armed security patrol raided the home of Mohammed Mesto in al-Raqqa on Tuesday 18 May 2010. They searched his home but he was not there and so he avoided being arrested. He is now in hiding, in fear of being arbitrarily detention as many others have been since the shooting at al-Raqqa during the celebrations of Newroz in March 2010.
Threats and arrests of many Kurds is causing fear in the area. Those who have been arrested report being tortured to give false confessions, and people are afraid.
Media Institute of West Kurdistan Society – al-Raqqa
21 May 2010
Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security on behalf of European Union expresses her deep concern about the events of Newroz 2010 in al-Raqqa
June 2, 2010 by sks
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International Support Kurds in Syria Association – SKS reported on the news relating to Newroz 2010, in al-Raqqa, and wrote to British Members of the European Parliament [MEPs] about the killing of civilian Kurds by Syrian security forces, focussing the abuse of basic human rights of Kurdish people in Syria.
Glenis Willmott, Leader of the Parliamentary Group of the British Labour Party in the European Parliament sent the SKS letter to Catherine Ashton, High Representative for EU Foreign and Security Policy.
SKS wrote also to Emma McClarkin, an MEP for the British Conservative Party in the European Union who sent the SKS letter to the European Commission. Mr Fule replied on behalf of the EU Commission (25 May 2010) that the EU is very concerned by the situation of Kurds in Syria, and said that events in Syria are being closely monitored by the EU. Read more
A 14-Year Old Girl Killed and 65 Families Fled in Iranian Shelling of Kurdistan
A 14-year old girl, Basoz Jabar Agha, was killed Sunday morning as a result of Iranian artillery bombardment of the border region between Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan, according to the officials of the Kurdistan Regional Government(KRG).
Rudaw reporter said that the Iranian forces shelled the Kurdish regions of Haji Omeran, Ibrahim Shilan between from 09:00 until 10:00 am Sunday. Read more
