Plight Kurdish in Syria

Plight of Kurds in Syria Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad has taken several positions during his career, only to take them back later. When Assad took power in the summer of 2000, Kurds hoped that he would be more modern and liberal than his authoritarian father. They hoped he would make changes in Syria's economic and political system and would recognize the benefit of an autonomous Kurdistan. But such hopes have been dashed. The younger Assad is just as disinterested in helping the Kurds as his father was. He has made public promises to return land and citizenship to Kurds, who were stripped of their citizenship and their land - taken from them due to the Arabization laws in Syria. These promises have yet to come to light. Time and again, he has manufactured a pretext to stall the implementation of changes to the Kurdish issues. He uses excuses that change cannot occur overnight, yet changes occurred overnight in the constitution that allowed him to become president at such an early age. Regrettably, Syria is stubbornly pursuing a military solution against the Kurds and has intensified repression, encouraged by an apparent international complacency. This will further aggravate tension and escalate violence in the region. A political solution, which satisfies the legitimate aspirations of the Kurdish people, can bring an end to the Kurdish conflict.