Statement of the Kurdish National Council on the occasion of the anniversary of the Syrian revolution

ARK News... On the occasion of the 11th anniversary of the Syrian revolution

By the fifteenth of March, 11 years have passed since the start of the peaceful revolution of freedom and dignity, against the oppression and tyranny of the Syrian regime and the oppression of its security services.

Peaceful demonstrations demanding freedom and democracy swept most of the Syrian regions and won the trust and support of more than 150 countries. This support culminated in the holding of the Geneva 1 Conference in 2012. The conference took important decisions in the interest of the Syrian people, followed by similar international resolutions, especially Resolution 2254.

Peaceful demonstrations shook the pillars of the Baath regime, and it resorted to repression against peaceful demonstrators, and many of them were martyred.

This prompted many of the militaries to refuse to do so and to stand by the demonstrators. The excessive violence exercised by the regime against the demonstrators, seeking the help of sectarian militias first, and later the Russian and Iranian allies, to draw the world's attention from a peaceful revolution to a civil war, unfortunately, the regime has partially succeeded in disrupting the course of the revolution and its terminology, due to its intransigence and adherence to a military solution, and the dispersal of the Syrian opposition and the multiplicity of its platforms, and the control of armed militias over more than one Syrian geographical area, all of these determinants will not undermine the determination of the Syrian people to surrender after half of it has become deserted, not to mention the thousands of victims of detainees and forcibly disappeared, whose fate is still unknown. The emergence of many extremist terrorist organizations, the first of which is the terrorist organization ISIS, and the formation of the international coalition to fight ISIS, led by America.

It is unfortunate that the international community, throughout the past period, did not attach the necessary importance to putting an end to the regime's oppression and tyranny, and finding a political solution to the Syrian crisis. They were content with managing the crisis and left the Syrian people to prey in the hands of the regime, extremist factions, and interested countries to implement their agendas at the expense of the Syrian people.

The Syrian revolution has established essential changes in the stereotypical thinking of the Syrians, which will have repercussions on the future of Syria. The true owners of the revolution were convinced that it is necessary to formulate a national project that guarantees the rights of all Syrian components.

Since the start of the Syrian revolution, the Kurdish movement has decided its choice to engage in the peaceful Syrian revolution, because we are essentially opposed to the racist policies of the regime and its exceptional projects applied against our people (Arabization.. stripping of citizenship.. obliteration of national identity.. dismissal and ban on jobs.. arrests…..etc.). However, we did not succumb to the machine of racial oppression. The manifestations of this appeared in the glorious uprising of March 12, 2004, which broke the barrier of fear in the Syrian street, which positively affected the start of the Syrian revolution.

The establishment of the Kurdish National Council during the Syrian revolution came as an objective need to unite the ranks of the Kurdish people and their word. The Council sought to preserve the peaceful revolution in the Kurdish regions. Despite the regime’s repression and its tools, the Kurdish National Council sided with the Syrians and joined the ranks of the Syrian opposition with conviction, and participated in the political process on the future of Syria. The Council seeks by all diplomatic means to establish the rights of our Kurdish people along with the rights of all components of the Syrian people in a constitution in which Syrians participate away from the domination and superiority that was exercised by the regime, we, as the Kurdish National Council, are working with our allies to end the suffering of the Syrians and find a comprehensive political solution to the Syrian crisis through the implementation of international resolutions, especially Resolution 2254, which guarantees the political transition process and ends tyranny, chaos, destruction, and areas of influence, processes of demographic change, the return of the displaced to their areas of origin and the return of civil life to all regions of Syria through a pluralistic political decentralization system.

On the 11th anniversary of the Syrian revolution, we appeal to the international community to stand seriously on the suffering of the Syrians and to find appropriate mechanisms to implement international resolutions to solve the Syrian crisis and put an end to the regime's procrastination and evasion.

All parties to the Syrian opposition (political and military) must also review their policies and performance, return to the incubator of the people who revolted against oppression and tyranny and correct their course by formulating a Syrian national project that includes all components of the Syrian people.

Long live the revolution of the great Syrian people.
Glory and eternity to the martyrs of the Syrian revolution.


General Secretariat
The Kurdish National Council in Syria

March 15, 2022 AD

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