Urgent Appeal to Media, Politicians, Embassies
and Human Rights Organizations
The Christians of Syria are under attack yet again. However, this time from those who until now have been perceived as victims themselves – the Kurds. In a shocking move, Kurdish YPG forces have unleashed a wave of ongoing intimidations, threats and assaults on the final remaining Aramean Christians in northeast Syria. The WCA condemns this campaign of terror against a vulnerable minority and calls upon the media, politicians and human rights organizations to speak out and help to cease the policy of covert demographic engineering.
On Monday, 11 January 2016, Kurdish YPG fighters killed Gabriel Henry Daoud (photo) and injured a fellow member of the Aramean protection unit “Sootoro” in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, bordering the town of Nusaybin in southeast Turkey. Witnesses stated that these forces drove up to the checkpoint at the Christian district of al-Wusta and suddenly opened gunfire against unsuspecting Sootoro guards. This surprise attack follows from the 30 December 2015 bombings where 13 Christians (nine Arameans and four Armenians) were killed in Qamishli.
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See also the Press Release in Tur-Abdin Aramaic, titled "Buyono: hcomo 'al a Suryoye bi Qamishlo."
U Huyodo Suryoyo Tibeloyo wa Huyodaydeh b-awyutho qwitho ne ‘am u Sootoro bi Qamishlo u lo kmaqbli ayna gabo, gayso aw ‘amo nukhroyo d-qoyem mqabel du ‘amo Suryoyo wa noturaydeh!
Qrawu i kthawto kulah
After months of preparatory work, on 18 December 2015 the WCA proudly announced the foundation of a Syriac Aramean Association in Qamishli, a town in northeast Syria that borders southeast Turkey, with support of the WCA Member Federations and the Aramaic TV Channel Suryoyo Sat.
The main objectives of this new civil society organization, which will work closely with the WCA, its Federations and Suryoyo Sat, are:
1. To help acquire humanitarian and development aid for the neglected Aramean people in the Hassakeh province, particularly in Qamishli;
2. To monitor and publicize the human rights situation of the Aramean minority group;
3. To record and broadcast important cultural and other activities in the region.
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