Assad's Dictator Regime Kill 3 Kurds Celebrating New Year
DAMASCUS, March 21, 2008 (AFP) - Syrian police killed three Kurds in clashes
which broke out as the Kurds celebrated their New Year at Qameshli in
Syrian-occupied-Kurdistan, an official of the Kurdish Yakiti party told AFP
Friday.
"Syrian police opened fire on Thursday evening on some Kurds who were
celebrating Kurdish New Year, and singing in the light of candles. They killed
three and wounded four," said the official, speaking by telephone and asking
that his name not be used.
The official, whose party is banned by the authorities, said that the dead were
being buried on Friday in Hilalya cemetery, with the ceremony attended by
leaders of Syria's Kurdish movement.
Qameshli lies some 680 kilometres (420 miles) north of Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in London, which named the dead
and wounded gave similar details of the clashes but said five people had been
wounded.
