Syrian Baath POlicy in Western Kurdistan
 

Hanun Muhamed and S. Muhamad

efrin.net 12.06.06

The Kurds of Syria are subject to particular forms of discrimination an suppression in Syria that extend beyond those that are the product to authoritarianism and the that apply to the whole state.
The Kurds are discriminated against on the basis of their national identity which the state can not,or will not accommodate. Violations of Kurdish human rights occur everyday in Syria and these are violations that cross the spectrum of  both international human rights laws and SYRIAN demostic.

THe support of the Iraqi Kurds or iraqi federal Kurdistan for the allied invasion of IRAQ AND THE INCLUSION OF THE Iraqi Kurds in the centre of the political process of determinig the future of  Iraqi have increased anti-Kurdish policy and sentiment within the ruling regime in Syria and among its Arab majority and regionally have overridden latent hostilities between Syria, Turkey and Iran.

CONSEQUENTLY; THERE HAS BEEN A RENEWAL OF ANTI-KURDISH POLICY ACROSS THESE COUNTRIES. For Kurds in Syria, the effect of this has been to place them under increased surveillance and to subject them to increased draconian measures in the name of protecting the unity of the state and the ARAB NATION. The increasing numbers of  Kurds arrested and massacres in recent years and months and the intensification of restrictions on cultural practices is testimony that reform in SYRIA IS BY NO MEANS DEMOCRATISATION.