WEST KURDISTAN, — The Kurdish Democratic Union Party – PYD is calling a mass rally in Qamishli, Syria on Thursday 7 April 2011, to demand the release of Kurdish political prisoners, and all prisoners of conscience.
This is a march in solidarity with the uprising of the Syrian people in various cities and areas of Syria demanding the lifting of the State of Emergency, the release of political prisoners, and an end to political arrests.
Kurdish Democratic Union Party – PYD calls for the right to engage in political life, and for the reining–in of the intelligence services and police, the ending of interference in the private lives of citizens, an end to corruption, and for an end to the law that allows the Ba’ath Party ‘single party rule’ in the Syrian Constitution.
Kurdish Democratic Union Party – PYD calls on Kurds and other people in Qamishli and the surrounding areas to heavily participate in the march, which is scheduled to start at Alaf Square, in Qamishli.
This call to demonstrate by the Democratic Union Party – PYD comes after the Party announced their solution for the Kurdish issue through the vision of a democratic Syria. This would include autonomous self-government for Western Kurdistan in order to end the problems that stem from the central bureaucracy, the domination of single-party rule, increasing viral corruption, the continued suppression of the Kurdish people, and ignoring of the demand for democracy.
The Syrian regime has launched a campaign of arrests against supporters of PYD using violence, and has repressed any political action to prevent the mobilising of the Kurdish people. The Syrian regime has been supported in this by the Turkish Government. It continues the policy of denial of rights and wages war against the Kurdish people which has resulted in deaths amongst cadres and leaders of the Party, and includes the arrest of hundreds of men and women who are members and supporters of the party, including Nazlia Kachel who disappeared in detention in 2004, and whose whereabouts remain unknown.