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From: Frank Ramaer, Chairman of the Kurdistan Human Rights Commission.

Re: The Unhuman Treatments of Kurds in Syria.

Dear Sir,

According to many reports the Kurdish minority in Syria lives under unhuman circomstances due to many unhuman laws and measures. Therefore we are very concerned about abuses of human rights in the Kurdish region in Syria.

Recently we were informed that a Kurdish patriot from Syria named Hussain Dawud, born at 6 April 1971 in Amuda - Syria , had in 1995 fled to Germany and applied for political assylum. The German authority has refused to offer him assylum and delivered him back to Syria on December 10, 2000. By his arrival in Damascus, Mr. Dawud was arrested and transferred to Farah Palasten prison in Damascus. During his stay in prison his health situation worsened and he died later in April 2001. The Syrian authorities did not freed his body. We have no evidence to prove that he was ill-treated during his stay in prison, but we think that this matter should be investigated.

On the other hand we would like to bring your attention to the fact that the Kurds generally in Syria feel to be discrimated and they complain over many abuses of human rights in the Kurdish region in Syria. A great number of the Kurds in Syria are not registered as patriots, therefore they are considered to be foreigners, the case which prevent them from many logic rights. There are still laws from the sixteeth which are based on unhuman fundementals.

We ask you kindly to review all those abuses of human rights and investigate the cause of death of Mr. Dawud.

Yours faithfully

Frank Ramaer
chairman of Kurdistan Human Rights Commission
 

KHC is an organisation established inMarch 1989. It defends the human rights of the Kurds in the world