(Zaman Al Wasl)- Asayish, armed wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) forced Arab and Kurdish students last Tuesday to leave the private schools of Syriac Orthodox church, because it's not teaching Kurdish curriculum only, sources said.
Local sources revealed that Asayish broke into in Dijla private school, affiliate of Syriac Orthodox Church in Malikiya city, and forced Kurdish and Arabic students to leave the school, caused a state of horror among children and brawl between the armed wing of PYD and families of students who rejected the act.
Administration of PYD has issued an order preventing public and private buses from transporting students of private school under financial penalty in case of breaching the order, in order to force students to attend schools teaching Kurdish curriculum, according to sources.
Dawood Dawood, a member of the Assyrian Democratic Organisation confirmed that what happened in the private school of Syriac Orthodox in Malikiyah comes within the decision of the Self Administration to teach Arabic, Kurdish and Assyrian curriculum according to students’ languages, which was rejected by the Christian components “Assyrian, Syriac and Armenian.”
“All private Assyrian schools have many Arabic and Kurdish students, and via negotiation between the Christian authority and Kurdish Self Administration, we reached to an agreement to leave already registered Kurdish students in the school but not to accept new Kurdish students, however, the Director of Education Directorate of Kurdish Self Administration, had breached the agreement and demanded getting Arabic and Kurdish students outside the school, which created a state of anger and tension among students families from all ethnic components”, Dawood explained.
He added that the Director of Education Directorate claimed that 5 students’ families had rejected Asayish’s act, 2 Syriac and 3 Kurds, who were arrested in the same day for unrelated charges, but were released two days later due to intervention of Christian Authority and Assyrian council.
The member of Assyrian organisation mentioned that he organisation had explained its attitude from what happened and condemned Asayish’s act Wednesday, and considered it as: “disgraceful act and does not related to democracy they claim to follow and violation of children rights, added to that it breached the agreement between both of us.”
Kurdish Self-Administration had in the beginning of this academic year forced Assyrian language besides Arabic and Kurdish languages in the curriculum of first stage “from grade-1 to grade-6” in schools of Hasaka province controlled by the Administration, amid worries among parents about their children’s future in schools and universities.
Local sources revealed that Asayish broke into in Dijla private school, affiliate of Syriac Orthodox Church in Malikiya city, and forced Kurdish and Arabic students to leave the school, caused a state of horror among children and brawl between the armed wing of PYD and families of students who rejected the act.
Administration of PYD has issued an order preventing public and private buses from transporting students of private school under financial penalty in case of breaching the order, in order to force students to attend schools teaching Kurdish curriculum, according to sources.
Dawood Dawood, a member of the Assyrian Democratic Organisation confirmed that what happened in the private school of Syriac Orthodox in Malikiyah comes within the decision of the Self Administration to teach Arabic, Kurdish and Assyrian curriculum according to students’ languages, which was rejected by the Christian components “Assyrian, Syriac and Armenian.”
“All private Assyrian schools have many Arabic and Kurdish students, and via negotiation between the Christian authority and Kurdish Self Administration, we reached to an agreement to leave already registered Kurdish students in the school but not to accept new Kurdish students, however, the Director of Education Directorate of Kurdish Self Administration, had breached the agreement and demanded getting Arabic and Kurdish students outside the school, which created a state of anger and tension among students families from all ethnic components”, Dawood explained.
He added that the Director of Education Directorate claimed that 5 students’ families had rejected Asayish’s act, 2 Syriac and 3 Kurds, who were arrested in the same day for unrelated charges, but were released two days later due to intervention of Christian Authority and Assyrian council.
The member of Assyrian organisation mentioned that he organisation had explained its attitude from what happened and condemned Asayish’s act Wednesday, and considered it as: “disgraceful act and does not related to democracy they claim to follow and violation of children rights, added to that it breached the agreement between both of us.”
Kurdish Self-Administration had in the beginning of this academic year forced Assyrian language besides Arabic and Kurdish languages in the curriculum of first stage “from grade-1 to grade-6” in schools of Hasaka province controlled by the Administration, amid worries among parents about their children’s future in schools and universities.
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