For Human Rights need not be conditional. Indeed, many of the arguments used by Arab politicians, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad included, to condemn Israel of mistreatment the Palestinians can be re-applied to criticise Syria's policies and behaviour towards its Kurds.
Striking comparisons can be found in the following areas:
1. eradication of identity and cultural assimilation (prohibitions on language, change of place names to the dominant language)
2. settlement building - compare Arab Belt in North East Syria and Israeli settlements
3. restrictive and conditional citizenship
An inscription of identity: the Kurdish name of town Ain al-Arab written in both Arabic and Roman scripts
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Monday, 20 December 2010
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