{"article":{"id":12444,"heading":"Kurdistan Region Surviving Attempts by Syrian Military Dictatorship to Destroy I","author":"Kurmanc","created":"2001-10-28 21:10:18","modified":"2001-10-28 21:46:40","last_modified":"Mon, 29 Oct 2001 04:46:40","article":"<p>The government of Syria, the Socialist Baath Party claims falsely that there is no discrimination against the Kurdistan people who live and work mainly in the Northeastern areas of Syria: a huge country almost 1\/5 the size of the eastern United States. <br><br> Former Prisoners of all categories are subject to a rights ban which begins the day of sentencing and lasts 10 years after the sentence is finished. <br>  <br> The rights ban normally keeps people from voting, running for office or working in the public sector 10 years after release from jails that are full of people opposed to one man rule. People are often denied passports. <br><br>  Bashar al Asad  son of Hafiz al asad who was dictator for 30 years is now President.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Kurds are ineligible for admission to public hospitals in Syria In the 1960's 120,000 Kurds were stripped of citizenship and unable to acquire birthcertificates. The law restricts written materials of all types not only those of, by or about Kurdistan topics.Many Kurds may not marry Syrians although  they pay taxes to the same offices, work","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2001\/10\/12444.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}