By Wladimir van Wilgenburg

Amsterdam - Kawa Rashid, spokesman of the Syrian Kurdish Unity party in Brussels reacted to a recent Today’s Zaman report suggesting more rights for Syria’s Kurds. “The Syrian regime is not be trusted, because we see other things happening in Syria”.

According to Kawa Rashid the number of arrests of Kurds in Syria increased. Also there is a continued pressure against Kurdish culture and language. “The regime doesn’t have any plans to improve the situation of Kurds in Syria, the Yekiti party [Unity party] doesn’t believe this, the regime tries to publish sometimes something about Kurds, but it’s not the truth.”

Sunday’s Zaman reported on 22 November that Damascus has agreed to introduce new legislation and measures by which the Kurds will receive some cultural, social and religious rights, following the Kurdish initiative of the Turkish government in Turkey.

The co-Chair Sheila Mosley of the International Support Kurds in Syria Association (SKS) agreed with Kawa Rashid that nothing has changed. “Syria is ethnically-cleansing Syria of Kurds and depriving them of their depriving them of their homelands so that the government can say that they have never existed there.”

Recent statements of the human rights organizations Human Right Watch and Defend International condemned human rights violations against Syrian Kurds and called on the Syrian government to respect international laws and human rights (Photo: Azady.nl).

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