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Article: SYRIA - The Kurdish Issue.
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- APS Review Gas Market Trends
- Article date:
- March 27, 2006
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When Kurdish unrest broke out on March 12-14, 2004, critics of the Ba'thist regime said that was the beginning of a long spell of troubles in Syria. But the old guard got the authorities on March 15 to arrest scores of Kurdish leaders and activists who had been watched closely by intelligence agents months before the rioting.
What alarmed the old guard most was the fact that the US flag was hoisted by the Kurdish rioters and President Bush was hailed as their hero. The unrest spread to Damascus and Aleppo, where Kurdish students took to the streets to demonstrate against the deaths in the Kurdish regions.
It is important to note that the violence began ...