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A whole bunch of Syrian Kurds gathered in Hasakeh in northern Syria on Sunday (December 25) to protest in opposition to lethal gun assault in Paris that focused native Kurdish group.
A gunman opened hearth at a Kurdish cultural centre and a hairdressing salon in Paris on Friday, killing three Kurds.
The suspected gunman, a 69-year-old Frenchman, was arrested and later confessed to a “pathological” hatred for foreigners, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau mentioned.
The semi-autonomous Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria referred to as for the Sunday protest in Hasakeh, which drew a whole lot of individuals brandishing images of the three victims and calling for accountability.
“Kurds are preventing in opposition to oppression and they’re massacred in every single place, even in Paris, the town of affection and freedom,” mentioned feminist activist Evin Basho, 33, demanding that the killer be dropped at justice.
The protesters marched by the town chanting “the martyrs of Paris are without end in our hearts” and repeating slogans in opposition to “the extermination” of the Kurdish folks.
The Kurdish diaspora is commonly described as world’s largest ethnic group with out a state. Kurdish individuals are unfold throughout Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran.
Protester Azad Suleiman, 55, instructed AFP he felt Kurds have been being focused within the diaspora and at residence.
“It is a struggle in opposition to our folks, focusing on us within the 4 elements of Kurdistan and even in Europe,” he mentioned, including he had excessive hopes that the French authorities would carry the perpetrator to justice.
“We is not going to concede to the enemies in Kurdistan and we is not going to abandon our revolution,” Suleiman mentioned.
(With inputs from businesses)
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