Arabs opened houses for Kurdish protestors

The participant in 2004 protests against the Syrian government in Al Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in Aleppo, that the Arab component embraced the Kurds who ran away from the security persecutions thought the Syrian government made the events for making strife between Arabs and Kurds.

14 March, 2020 03:26

Aleppo

On march 12^th, 2004, a mass revolution erupted in Qamishlo against the backdrop of confrontation between Kurds and the Syrian regime forces that tried to make strife between the fans of Al Jihad football club and Al Fitwa club from Deir ez Zour city.

The events were not limited in Al Jazeera region but expanded to Kobane , Afrin and the neighborhoods of Damascus and Aleppo city.

Hundreds of Kurds joined the mass protests and the Syrian regime oppression even in Al Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in the northeast of Syria.

The government aimed at making strife between the Kurds and Arabs but it failed.

Muhammad Ali, a citizen who lives in the western part of Al Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo, participated in the protests during Qamishlo mass revolution in 2004. He described the events " they were aiming at eliminating the Kurdish presence. When the protests went out in the Kurdish neighborhoods of Aleppo, the regime tried to oppress them severely.

Hassan mentioned the practices of the Syrian regime where they beat the director of the school and he was from the Arab component. He had no relation with the protests that were happening in that area."

"We have reached this day in the Revolution of Rojava despite the brutality of the Syrian government.

we have proved our existence through the gains we have made," Mohammed Ali Hassan, a citizen said.

Although the Syrian government has sought to ignite strife between Kurds and Arabs, it has not achieved its goal.

"The Arabs opened their homes to protect the Kurdish demonstrators," Fatima said.

"We rose up in solidarity with our people in Qamishlo. The Syrian government began to violate our rights, when the people stood for a minute of silence on the souls of the martyrs in Ashrafieh neighborhood. We were shot indiscriminately and a woman was injured next to me," Fatima said. "

The demonstrations lasted several days, with the arrest of a large number of young men and use of tear gas. Some spent years in prisons and were subjected to all kinds of torture. The Syrian government has mobilized all its military forces and security branches in Sheikh Maqsood and Al Ashrafia neighborhoods."

"We look forward to a democratic society, but the Syrian government differentiates between the components of the one country," Fatima said.

A.J

ANHA