(National Review) Nir Boms and Erick Stakelbeck - According to Kurdish sources, between 50 and 70 opponents of the Assad regime were killed and more than 200 injured by local police and the Syrian army during riots that swept through Qamoshli, Hasakah, Dirik, Amouda, and Ras el-Ein, all Kurdish-majority cities in northern Syria. In addition, as many as 1,200 Kurds were reportedly detained or arrested As their cousins in Iraq and Iran have done in the past when faced with persecution by totalitarian governments, the Kurds of Syria - joined by other members of the emerging Syrian opposition - are asking for the world's intervention.
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