The Assyrian Democratic Organization
ADO calls for the release of Michel Kilo and his other friends,
signatories of Damascus ?Beirut Declaration
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Europe- ADO: In this very delicate period of the Syrian history, as the country is facing tremendous challenges and pressures from outside, and while the Syrian people is looking forward to real democratic reforms and political relaxation, which is a precondition for building a true national unity, the country has been shocked once again by a new wave of crack down by the regime on political opposition activists and intellectuals, on top of them Michel Kilo and others.
This new futile campaign is stifling the liberties and free expression of those who do not possess but the power of word and intellect as a weapon for introducing freedom, progress and prosperity in the society, in a long process of struggle for the sake of establishing a democratic society base don justice, freedom, respect for human rights as well as the right of citizenship for all its sons .
The new wave of arrests this time has started with Michel Kilo who was arrested last Sunday in Damascus and it is still ongoing amongst the members of opposition forces, activists and intellectuals who have signed Damascus ?Beirut Declaration .
This arbitrary arrests, would not make these freedom fighters to back down, on the contrary , it would provide them with new determination, impetus and broader popularity. Nor would it intimidate the signatories of D.D. ?amongst them Assyrian Democratic Organization ?into changing their course of bringing about peaceful democratic changes in Syrian society, whatever the costs.
While we, in the Assyrian Democratic Organization ?Europe division ? , strongly condemn these unnecessary repressive measures as well as the polices of stifling the freedoms which still the regime is practicing against its free thinking critics and opposition forces of various political, national, religious or ideological orientation, we, at the same time, express our deepest solidarity with the stance of Michel Kilo the leading fighter for his country’s freedom as well as with the stance of his other colleagues and with the peaceful course for democratic changes they are following in Syria, demanding the authorities to speed up the release of Damascus ? Beirut -Declaration signatories and of all the political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in the Syrian prisons, reassuring meantime, that the security option would not solve any of the country’s countless problems but on the contrary it would help further deepen and complicate them .
ADO Europe Branch
