ENKS Statement on the 73rd Anniversary of International Human Rights Day

ARK News… The seventy-third anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, on the tenth of December, was passed, which was approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948, in response to the barbaric acts and crimes committed against human beings during the Second World War, which harmed the conscience of humanity, its adoption was a recognition that human rights are the basis of freedom, justice, and equality, and this day in its history has become a distinguished international day.

This declaration came after suffering from crimes against humanity that humanity has witnessed for many years, and it included basic articles and principles for the protection of human beings, regardless of their ethnic or religious affiliation, or according to their gender or color.

Despite the importance of this declaration and the other annexes that were issued to confirm and support it, it is considered one of the most ignored declarations, charters and international covenants even by the signatories to it, where the burden of injustice and various crimes increases in many places and countries, and women take their largest share of these crimes and violations that go beyond individuals to ethnic and religious groups and even peoples, many of whom are still deprived of their most basic national and human rights, such as the Kurdish people, during his history, he was subjected to abhorrent national persecution at the hands of the regimes of countries that divide his homeland Kurdistan, and he was deprived of his most basic national and human rights, and wars of genocide were waged against it and thousands of its youth were imprisoned in prisons and detention centers and many of them were martyred on the sticks of gallows, and systematic racist policies and projects targeting its existence, national characteristics and culture were applied against it.


In Syria, the Syrian people, in general, were subjected to oppression and oppression at the hands of successive regimes, and it increased during the years of the Syrian revolution, like its people, with its various categories and national and social components, tasted the bitterness of atrocities at the hands of the regime’s forces and the forces of terrorism and extremism, and the Kurdish people had their share in this, as they were exposed to the hordes of terrorism led by ISIS, who committed horrific crimes against them, especially their sons from the Yezidi brothers whose suffering covered the capitals and cities of the whole world, as well as its sons in Afrin, Seri Kaniye and Girê Spi and their countryside to horrific violations at the hands of many factions and armed groups there, killings, displacement and robbery of their properties, were practiced against them, in addition to settlement operations with the aim of making a demographic change in them. These actions were condemned and condemned by wide circles in the world, and the International Commission of Inquiry documented these violations, describing some of them as crimes against humanity and demanding their end, and bringing the perpetrators to justice.

On this occasion, the Kurdish National Council renews its condemnation of these violations and crimes committed in front of the international community, the United Nations, human rights organizations and the Turkish forces that control the area, and calls on them to stop these actions, hold the perpetrators accountable, expel the factions from the populated areas, and help the people to return safely to their homes and hand over its administration to its children under international auspices, also on this occasion, the Kurdish National Council renews its condemnation of the practices and violations carried out by the PYD security forces and its affiliated organizations, restricting freedoms and kidnapping minors, which have increased in frequency recently, ignoring the calls of their families and their commitment to the covenants related to this, as well as the arrest of opinion-holders and calling on them to release them and close the detention file respect and commitment to human rights.

The Council also calls on the United Nations, its affiliated organizations concerned with human rights, and relevant authorities and countries to work for the release of thousands of Syrian detainees in the regime’s prisons and detention centers, and to upgrade the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into laws binding on the signatories and implement them with effective mechanisms, and appeals to all democratic, peace and benevolent forces to raise the banner of protecting human rights and preserving their dignity to build a society of justice and equality.

09/12/2021
General Secretariat
The Kurdish National Council in Syria

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