
Tens of Thousands of Syrians Attended the funeral of Assassinated Kurdish Opposition leader Mashaal Tammo in the City of Qamishli today, October 8, 2011 Dictator Bashar Assad killed this Syrian Kurdish Opposition Leader yesterday as part of a Regime campaign to kill off all of the leadership of the pro Democracy movement. Farewell Mashaal Tammo Farewell, Mashaal Tammo Mashaal Tammo, one of the most active Kurdish leaders in the Syrian Kurdish community, and a highly respected figure across all segments of Syrian society, was born in Derbassiyeh in 1958. He was a resident of Qamishli, and was an agricultural engineer. He was married and had four sons and two daughters. Mashaal Tammo was assassinated on Friday, October 7, 2011 in a residence in the city of Qamishli. He had survived an assasination attempt on September 8, 2011. Tammo was the spokesperson for the Kurdish Future Movement Party, and was one of the most prominent political leaders among the Kurdish community. He had served as one of the leaders of the Kurdish Popular Union Party in Syria for more than two decades. Mashaal Tammo left the Kurdish Popular Union Party at the end of 1999 and founded, along with other activists, the Committees for the Revival of Civil Society in Syria. In Qamishli, Tammo also formed the Badr Khan Cultural Forum, an organization that promoted topics of interest to the Syrian community in general, and the Kurdish community in particular. He headed this organization until it closed <b>...</b>
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