15.02.2006, 02:49
Zitat:Foreigners in their own landQuelle:
Perveen Ali and Pary Karadaghi International Herald Tribune
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2006
Syria is at a critical crossroads, faced with the growing disenfranchisement and discontent of its nearly 300,000 stateless Kurds. By officially recognizing their nationality rights, President Bashar al-Assad can preempt further deterioration in the country's internal stability.
In 1962, a census was conducted in northeastern Syria, ostensibly to identify "alien infiltrators" who had crossed the border from Turkey since 1945, but primarily as one component of a campaign to Arabize this resource-rich region of the country, then primarily populated by non-Arabs.
The census was taken in a blatantly arbitrary manner, resulting in ludicrous situations. Brothers from the same family, born in the same Syrian village, were classified differently. Fathers became foreigners, while their sons remained citizens.
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Zitat:Perveen Ali works with Refugees International, an advocacy organization based in Washington. Pary Karadaghi is with Kurdish Human Rights Watch in Fairfax, Virginia.