Mahmoud Shekho – death of 42nd Kurdish conscript killed in the Syrian army

According to Media Institute of Western Kurdistan Society and Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, the family of a military conscript Mahmoud Shekho who had served in one of the military units of the Syrian army in the province of Latakia, received the body of their son on Saturday 9 October 2010. According to the military authorities he committed suicide. The source of this news confirmed that his body showed evidence of having been shot fourteen times. He was buried the same day in his village of Tel Hassal in the province of Aleppo. Read more