I lived in Syria for thirty years of my life, twenty-nine of them deprived of its nationality —moving between being “Unregistered” (Maktoum) at one time and a “Hasaka Foreigner” (Ajanib) …
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al-Hasakah Census 1962
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Executive Summary On the 60th anniversary of the 1962 special Census of al-Hasakah, Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) is delving into the deprivation of nationality (statelessness), which continues to …
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A Complaint to a UN Special Rapporteur on Syrian Crop and Land Seizures by Turkey and the Armed Groups it Supports in Northeast Syria
In Qasas village, south of Tal Abyad, a Syrian family was forced to give up the rights to their land in return for the release of their brother who was …
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After the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party seized power in Syria in 1963, successive Ba’athist Syrian governments enforced several laws and used a wide range of practices that robbed a large …
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Executive Summary It has been 59 years since an unjust special census was carried out in Syria’s Kurdish-majority province of al-Hasakah, which resulted in thousands of Syrians being stripped of …
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Being a maktum[1], Dawran Ibrahim Khalil failed to legalize his status and get the Syrian nationality even though 57 years separate him from the special census conducted back in 1962, …
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As a stateless Syrian Kurds from the maktumeen class, Nasr El Din was not allowed to possess or acquire any property. He has been deprived of all his civil and …
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Ali is a stateless Syrian Kurdi, specifically from the maktumin class and has been living in a constant fear of being arrested by the Syrian security service agents for not …
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Luqman Yousif Abdu is still unable to register his children because of the fact that he is a Syrian stateless Kurd, categorized under the maktumeen by the 1962 special census. …