Mélisande Genat « Suriye’den Kaçış » 19/09/13
Jeudi 19 septembre 2013 à 18h à l’IFEAMélisande Genat (doctorante EHESS) Intervention en anglais Escape From Syria:From conscription to desertion, the experience of Syrian Kurds in Assad’s wartime army “I swear to God that if another country had invaded Syria it would have been much better. We all would have fought to the death for our country. But this…” While young Kurdish conscripts of Syria have had a different experience during the Civil War than most other Kurds – as those living in the Kurdish part of Syria have been relatively spared from the worst fighting – they share the general sentiment that the ongoing war is not theirs. For those unfortunate enough to have their scheduled conscription period fall