Daham Miro
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Daham Miro دهام ميرو was a Kurdish political leader and former chairman of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria (KDPS). Daham Miro was born in Ségirka Miro (Miro’s three hills) in Syria.
He followed a Quranic School in Ayn Diwar in the thirties. He and his family supported the first Kurdish party in Syria (Kurdish Democratic Party established in 1957) and opposed the Syrian policy against the Kurds. His family was heavily punished and great part of there land was given to Arab Settlers who brought to the region as a part of the Syrian Arabisation policy of the Kurdish region.
KDPS went through several divisions in the sixties. Mustafa Barzani
(The father of Massoud Barzani the current president of Iraqi Kurdistan
) attempted to reunify the party by inviting all the fractions in 1970 to Iraqi Kurdistan. During the meetings Miro was Chosen and later re-elected in 1972 as the chairman of KDPS.
Miro and other party leaders were arrested in the summer of 1973 shortly after they had addressed a memorandum to the Syrian president Assad protesting the living conditions of the Kurds deprived citizenship. Miro and other party leaders were heavily tortured during detention. In 1976 Amnesty international
launched a campaign urging the Syrian government to release Miro. Miro was released in 1981 after 8 years of imprisonment.
Despite his political nonactiveness after his release Miro still gain enormous respect among Syrian Kurds
.
He followed a Quranic School in Ayn Diwar in the thirties. He and his family supported the first Kurdish party in Syria (Kurdish Democratic Party established in 1957) and opposed the Syrian policy against the Kurds. His family was heavily punished and great part of there land was given to Arab Settlers who brought to the region as a part of the Syrian Arabisation policy of the Kurdish region.
KDPS went through several divisions in the sixties. Mustafa Barzani
Mustafa Barzani
Mustafa Barzani also known as Mullah Mustafa was a Kurdish nationalist leader, and the most prominent political figure in the modern Kurdish politics. In 1946 he was chosen as the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party to lead the Kurdish revolution against Iraqi regimes...
(The father of Massoud Barzani the current president of Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan or Kurdistan Region is an autonomous region of Iraq. It borders Iran to the east, Turkey to the north, Syria to the west and the rest of Iraq to the south. The regional capital is Arbil, known in Kurdish as Hewlêr...
) attempted to reunify the party by inviting all the fractions in 1970 to Iraqi Kurdistan. During the meetings Miro was Chosen and later re-elected in 1972 as the chairman of KDPS.
Miro and other party leaders were arrested in the summer of 1973 shortly after they had addressed a memorandum to the Syrian president Assad protesting the living conditions of the Kurds deprived citizenship. Miro and other party leaders were heavily tortured during detention. In 1976 Amnesty international
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
launched a campaign urging the Syrian government to release Miro. Miro was released in 1981 after 8 years of imprisonment.
Despite his political nonactiveness after his release Miro still gain enormous respect among Syrian Kurds
Kurds in Syria
Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria making up 10% of the country's population. Most of them are Sunni Muslims; there are also Yazidi and Yarsan Kurds in Syria and small numbers of Christians and Alawis. They face routine discrimination and harassment by the Syrian...
.