While the world’s attention is focused on the war in Iraq, the internal Palestinian strife, the Israeli-Hamas confrontation in Gaza, and the clashes in Lebanon between the Lebanese army and Syrian supported Fatah al-Islam, scant attention has been paid to developments inside Syria.
The regime of Bashar Assad has used this opportunity to re-launch the campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Kurdish region of Hasakah. The Syrian press, controlled by the regime, prevents access to the foreign press and the abuses of the Kurds have gone practically unreported. News of the ethnic cleansing is arriving almost exclusively through letters and faxes from persecuted Kurds...
In this Front Page Magazine piece, Joseph Puder reviews both the history and current barbarism involved in Syria's "ethnic cleansing" policies.
