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PJA Starts Kurdish language courses in Armenia

21/08/2003 KurdishMedia.com (Translated)

Yerevan (MHA) - The Free Womens Party (PJA) has started literacy
courses in the Latin alphabet in Kurdish villages in Armenia, where
the Cyrillic alphabet is dominant.

In the courses, which are attracting great interest from both young
and old, children are also taught about Kurdish heroes, beliefs,
stories, songs, and cities. A new development has thus come about in
terms of Kurdish education in Armenia. Heretofore, in settlement areas
with substantial Kurdish populations, education in Kurdish has been
officially provided in state schools for one hour a week.

Due to the lack of materials in the schools, however, and the fact
that this education has been conducted with the Cyrillic alphabet,
this has been insufficient. Thus in order for the Kurdish language to
be taught more effectively and to ensure that all Kurdish children in
Armenia are able to get language instruction, the PJA has begun
Kurdish language courses.

In these language courses, the Kurdish language is taught in the Latin
alphabet and, by being helped to
comprehend the importance of the Kurdish language, the children are
helped to develop in this regard. PJA officials in Armenia have said
that they plan to make the language courses more comprehensive as time
goes on, and to include the lessons in classes in state schools as
well.

Siloye Hemid, who sends his children to the language classes, said
that Kurdish language instruction has to date been officially provided
in some villages in Armenia, but that only a very small portion of the
Kurdish children have benefited from this.

Translated from Turkish by KurdishMedia.com; originally published in
Yeniden Ozgur Gundem newspaper, 20 August 2003. Turkish text available
at:

http://www.yenidenozgurgundem.com/news.asp?id=104153

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Birds of a feather flock together - And so will pigs and swine; rats and mice will
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I am a captive in my own counrty also.
By a yezidi author

I am a Kurdish writer. I am from Armenia and I am a Yezidi. I left my country for
exile (Germany) to escape the oppression by the Armenian state and the nationalist
gangs that were established by the state.

Beatings, verbal abuse and other unpleasantries became the norm. And the Yezidies got
their share of this treatment. In the city of Yerevan, a Yezidi Kurd named Alik
Hasanyan was arrested and in front of thousands of people was burned alive. He was
charged with killing an Armenian girl and a boy. Later on it became evident that he
was not the killer. He had absolutely nothing to do with the killings. Another Yezidi
from the Artashat region was gunned down in broad daylight for no reason. Their hatred
and aggression went beyond cold - blooded murder.

At present time, one can say that 98 % of the population of Armenia consists of
Armenians. There are very few Yezidies left in Armenia and they are very old and very
poor who are unable to move away. They lost their savings and wealth of hundreds of
years. Internaitonal human rights organizations and the world public opinion do not
know these atrocities.

Authorities claim that Kurds are supporters of Turkey and are after snatching away
part of Armenia as Kurdistan. Such false claims mobilized a lot of Armenians and
instilled hatred in their hearts toward the Kurds in Armenia.

Everything is under the control of the armed bandits. The Armenian state is waging a
very dirty war against Kurdish intellectuals through nationalist organizations like
PYUNIK, HINCHAK, HAYASTANI and LIRAGIR. The state sees Kurdish intellectuals as
servants, hands and tails of outside agents that are bent to harm Armenia.