Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Assassination of Syrian Kurdish leader a ‘dangerous escalation’

(Version anglaise seulement)

11 October 2011 An eyewitness to the killing tells Amnesty International of Mesha'al al-Tammo's death on Friday. The assassination of a prominent Kurdish minority leader in Syria may be a dangerous turning-point in the authorities’ crackdown on protests that have swept the country since March, Amnesty International said today. Mesh’al al-Tammo, the spokesperson of the Kurdish Future Current party and a founding member of Syria’s new opposition National Council, was shot dead last Friday by unidentified gunmen in Qamishly, near Syria’s border with Turkey. One of his sons, Marcel,…

Lire l'article complet