Future Syria Party: People’s co-existence frustrated the plans of Damascus

32 Kurds were killed in clashes organized by the Syrian Baath regime after a football match in Qamishlo. After this massacre, an uprising broke out on 12 March 2004, that swept all of Rojava and even spread to Aleppo and Damascus.

The “Serhildan of Qamishlo” is considered the first mass uprising in Rojava and came at a time when Saddam Hussein was toppled in Iraq and joint cabinet meetings of Turkey and Syria were taking place.

The Future Syria Party made a press statement marking the 18th anniversary of the Qamishlo Uprising. The statement was read by the party’s Tabqa branch chairperson Ehmed El-Xelef, who said that the regime in Damascus has always sought to stir up problems and conflicts among the Kurds and Arabs.

Ehmed El-Xelef pointed out that the North-East Syrian peoples’ historical background, domestic peace, co-existence, fraternity of peoples and will for a solution have frustrated the Damascus regime’s nationalist schemes seeking to cause an instigation.  

Ehmed El-Xelef called on the international community to fulfil their responsibility and implement the UN resolution no 2254 to end the suffering of the Syrian people, to stop external intervention and to ensure the removal of occupying forces.