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So they claim they want their rights, but it's not okay for others to have rights or to at least be recognized and gain a little bit of rights.
BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk...e-east-18706697
Syria opposition fails to overcome differences in Cairo
Syrian opposition groups have agreed on a general plan for the way forward in the country at a meeting in Cairo that exposed their deep divisions.
Delegates set out how a transitional period would work and what they would do if they managed to oust President Bashar al-Assad.
But they failed to reach an agreement on forming a unified body to represent them in negotiations with world powers.
At one point scuffles broke out when a Kurdish delegation walked out.
In Syria, at least seven people were reportedly killed on Wednesday.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four civilians had died in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, and that there had been clashes south of Damascus near a branch of Air Force Intelligence.
The Local Co-ordination Committees, an activist network, put the nationwide death toll at 60, including 12 people in Deraa and 13 in Idlib.
Meanwhile, the pressure group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the Jordanian authorities of discriminating between Syrian nationals and Palestinians fleeing the violence.
HRW said in a statement that interviews with Syrian and Palestinian refugees indicated that Jordan had "forcibly returned some newly arriving Palestinians from Syria and threatened others with deportation".
Jordanian Information Minister Sameeh Maaytah dismissed the allegations as "totally baseless".
In another development, a Syrian general defected to the opposition and fled to Turkey on Wednesday, bringing the total number of generals who have crossed into Turkey to at least 15.
'Scandal'
The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo reports that Syria's opposition is notoriously divided, so it is hard to say whether the agreements or the disagreements which emerged from the meeting in the Egyptian capital were more significant.
A final statement read by opposition leader Kamal al-Labuani said delegates "agreed that the political solution has to start by the fall of the regime represented in Bashar al-Assad and the icons of his power and calls for an immediate halt of violence committed by the Syrian regime".
In one document, the delegates set out their plans for a transitional period, including an interim government and parliament. This had been called for by the Action Group for Syria, a body representing world powers.
They also outlined how they would reform the armed forces, set up a commission to investigate crimes against the Syrian people, and dissolve the ruling Baath Party, whose members would be allowed to help run the country as long as they did not have "hands stained with blood".
A second document said the new post-Assad Syria would have a "republican, democratic, civilian, pluralistic" system of government. They also pledged to support economic and social justice.
However, the major point of disagreement was over the powers to be granted to a committee that would act as a single point of contact for the international community, recalling Libya's National Transitional Council.
The main opposition coalition, the Syrian National Council (SNC), reportedly insisted that it should act solely as a co-ordinating body without any leadership powers.
Earlier on Tuesday, there were scuffles, punches were thrown and women wept when a Kurdish group stormed out of the meeting after an argument over whether the Kurds should be recognised as a minority within Syria.
"We will not return to the conference and that is our final line. We are a people as we have language and religion and that is what defines a people," said Morshed Mashouk, a leading member of the Syrian Kurdish National Council.
Some delegates shouted "scandal, scandal" as the Kurds left, while one young activist alleged: "This is a faked withdrawal seeking to make the conference fail."
One activist group, the Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC), had earlier pulled out, saying it refused to engage in "political disputes which play with the fate of our people and our revolution".
Our correspondent says all this will frustrate opposition supporters inside Syria, and their allies outside, and provide comfort to President Assad.
However, it could be argued that the Cairo meeting was largely irrelevant, as events in Syria build a terrible momentum of their own, he adds.
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Kurdish leaders: Syrian opposition conference in Cairo has failed 4.7.2012
Dr Abdulhakim Bashar, secretary-general of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria and Public relations chief for the Kurdish National Council.
Shalal Gado, the politburo member of the Kurdish Leftist Party of Syria. • See Related Links July 4, 2012
ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — The recent Syrian opposition's conference in Cairo did not target its goal for unifying the voice of Syrian opposition parties, Kurdish political leaders said.
The two-day conference, organized by Arab League in Egyptian capital, which gathered 250 representatives from Syrian opposition parties as well as a number of Arab foreign ministers, was concluded last night.
Kurds boycotted the conference on the brink of concluding the conference because the conference failed in unifying the voice of the opposition forces, said Abdul-Kareem Bashar, foreign relations chief of the Kurdish National Council of Syria (KNCS).
Bashar said the National Council of Syria ( NCS, the major opposition force) "withdrew from the agreement and promises it made before holding Cairo conference."
The KNCS and NCS had agreed before the conference that the former should state in the final communiqué of the event that Kurds are a distinct ethnic group in Syria who are living on their land and in their own country and enjoy their own history and identity,www.ekurd.net said Shalal Gado, the politburo member of the Kurdish Leftist Party of Syria.
Gado said but the NCS did not comply with its promise and " it did not refer to Kurds at all.
"This shows that the Syrian opposition does not want to admit to ethnic rights of Kurds and this is not in the interest of the Syrian opposition and revolution.
"We stress that the Syrian opposition conference has failed in targeting its goal."
It is almost 16 months Syria has been swept by violence as the security forces try to suppress the public protests which call for regime change. Tens of thousands have been killed since March 2011 in the Syrian uprising.
http://www.ekurd.net...yriakurd527.htm
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A Syrian Kurdish group quit the meeting, provoking mayhem and cries of "scandal, scandal" from delegates. Women wept as men traded blows, and staff of the hotel used for the meeting hurriedly removed tables and chairs as the scuffles spread.
"We will not return to the conference and that is our final line. We are a people as we have language and religion and that is what defines a people," said Morshed Mashouk, a leading member of the Kurdish group which walked out.
"The Kurds withdrew because the conference rejected an item that says the Kurdish people must be recognised," said Abdel Aziz Othman of the National Kurdish Council. "This is unfair and we will no longer accept to be marginalised."
The outburst lasted only a few minutes, and some said it had been stage managed to get the Kurds on television.
When one Kurd screamed, "Nothing has changed, we need to be listened to" as he walked out of the conference room, in front of cameras,www.ekurd.net a young activist followed him shouting: "This is a faked withdrawal seeking to make the conference fail."
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A Syrian Kurdish group quit the meeting, provoking mayhem and cries of "scandal, scandal" from delegates. Women wept as men traded blows, and staff of the hotel used for the meeting hurriedly removed tables and chairs as the scuffles spread.
"We will not return to the conference and that is our final line. We are a people as we have language and religion and that is what defines a people," said Morshed Mashouk, a leading member of the Kurdish group which walked out.
"The Kurds withdrew because the conference rejected an item that says the Kurdish people must be recognised," said Abdel Aziz Othman of the National Kurdish Council. "This is unfair and we will no longer accept to be marginalised."
The outburst lasted only a few minutes, and some said it had been stage managed to get the Kurds on television.
When one Kurd screamed, "Nothing has changed, we need to be listened to" as he walked out of the conference room, in front of cameras,www.ekurd.net a young activist followed him shouting: "This is a faked withdrawal seeking to make the conference fail."
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Edited by Mujahid, 06 July 2012 - 02:44 AM.
