Exclusive information and horrific facts on the anniversary of the martyrdom of Sheikh Mashouq Al-Khaznawi

ARK News… On Tuesday, June 1, 2005, Sheikh Muhammad Mashouq al-Khaznawi was martyred twenty days after he was kidnapped by the Syrian regime in Damascus, the capital.

Who is Sheikh Mashouq Al-Khaznawi?
He is Muhammad Mashouq Ibn Sheikh Ezaddin al-Khaznawi, one of the most prominent clerics in the region. He was born in the village of Tel Marouf of Qamishlo city in Syrian Kurdistan on the twenty-fifth of January 1958. A Kurdish national religious figure opposing the Baath regime in Syria left a tangible impact on the Kurdish and Syrian society. He was kidnapped by the Syrian regime and subjected to the most severe types of physical and psychological torture in the basements of the Baath.

His study
Al-Khaznawi obtained his high school diploma in the year seventy-seven, and then went to Damascus to study at an institute of Islamic sciences. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Islamic Sciences from Saudi Arabia and obtained a Master's degree in Islamic Studies in 2001.

His participation and role in the 2004 uprising
After the great uprising, he took upon himself the responsibility of awakening the Kurds through the speeches he gave in mosques, in addition to seminars and lectures against the repressive policy practiced by the Baathist regime against the Kurds, and among the most powerful speeches delivered by the martyr were those delivered on Newroz, in addition to his fiery speech on the anniversary of the martyr of the Qamishlo uprising, the martyr Farhad Muhammad Ali on the eighth of April 2005.

He was repeating that he was going to martyrdom, and he was well aware that the regime was hatching a plot to assassinate him and was not going to give up in demanding Kurdish rights or back down, until he was kidnapped in the capital, Damascus, on the tenth of September 2005 by the Syrian regime's intelligence services.

His kidnapping and torturing according to private sources of ARK.
Because of his opposition to the Baathist regime and his demand for Kurdish rights and his participation in the 2004 uprising that swept the cities of Syrian Kurdistan, he was kidnapped on May 10, 2005, while in prison, Maher al-Assad, brother of Bashar al-Assad, President of the Syrian regime, supervised his torture, cutting his body into three parts, plucking his beard and eyebrows, and his body was disfigured as a result. His martyrdom was announced on June 1 of the same year, twenty days after his kidnapping. When his family received his body, his hands were mutilated, his beard and eyebrows were completely pulled out, and the marks of brutal torture were evident on his body.

His burial
Soon the news of his martyrdom spread, the Kurds responded to the call and more than a million Kurds gathered in Qamishlo city, where the martyr was buried at the cemetery of Qaddour Beg and buried there. Since that time, his words and speeches are still alive and well-known, circulated by generation after generation for a Kurdish symbol revolting against a dictatorial regime, sacrificing himself and demanding the most basic rights of his oppressed people.

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