Kurdistan President Slams Syrian Regime
For Killing Three Kurds
Mar 23, 2008
The President of Southern Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, has condemned an incident
in which Syrian security forces killed three Kurds. The incident took place in
Qamishli in Syrian-occupied Kurdistan on Thursday night when a group of Kurdish
youths were celebrating Newroz.
Qamishli is the capital of the Kurdistan
region in Syria. "An argument between the demonstrators and Syrian police in the
Kurdish city of Qamishli developed into a shooting on Thursday evening," the
London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement.
"We strongly condemn the killing of the innocent people in Qameshli. These
people were just celebrating the beginning of their new year and had committed
no crime," Barzani said Sunday in a statement, cited by AFP. The Kurdish leader
called for an investigation on the deadly incident, urging Syrian President
Bashar Assad to "punish the perpetrators of the crime."
