Civil society in Tal Abyad to promote National Cohesion

Civil society in Tal Abyad to promote National Cohesion by launching campaign endorsing the values of Joint living

Activists from the civil society in Tal Abyad, north east Syria, launched on Friday an initiative to endorse values of Co-existence and tolerance between Arabs and Kurds.

The campaign demanded to cooperate with all Kurdish families who were hurt by the extremists. They ask also families to come back home, besides establishing a committee to protect the Kurdish neighborhoods.

Activists said the main objective of the campaign is to bury the differences and get rid of disputes.

Al-Qaeda affiliated groups have kidnapped hundreds of civilians, mainly women and children, in the Tal Abyad city after raiding the Kurdish neighborhoods in the region today. The detainees have reportedly been threatened with decapitation, according to FiratNews.

Kurds are about 10 percent of Syria’s 23 million population, and Kurdish Democratic Union officials have been saying for some time that they intended to set up what they described as “an independent Council to run Kurdish regions.”

More than 100,000 people have been killed since the Syria crisis started in March 2011, according to the United Nations, as largely peaceful protests against Assad's rule. It escalated into a civil war after opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent.

Zaman Alwasl