Deir Ezzor | Tension grows in Al-Jerthi after SDF attack on demonstrators protesting the Autonomous Administration’s curriculum

Syrian Observatory activists have monitored the people of Al-Jerthi village in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor participating in a demonstration, expressing rejection of the curriculum provided by the Autonomous Administration.

 

The demonstration experienced skirmishes between the demonstrators and SDF members who beat and arrest a demonstrator, which triggered popular resentment and anger. The angry residents have blocked streets in the village, amid growing tension there.

 

SOHR sources had monitored widespread rejection by the parents of students and educational academies in Deir Ezzor countryside, which is under the control of SDF, against the new curriculum. A group of educational staffs and students’ parents met in Al-Busayrah city in the east of Deir Ezzor and expressed their rejection and boycott of this curriculum, as it opposes the customs and traditions of their society.

 

The Education and Instruction Department in northern and eastern Syria held a meeting with the people of Hajin in the countryside of Deir Ezzor, and its teaching staff, civil councils and parents of students.

 

They decided to reject the curriculum because it opposed the customs and traditions of their society and spoke of other religions than Islam which is the religion of the region’s people.

 

The new curriculum also historically marginalized Deir Ezzor city, called for the division of Syria and the obliteration of Syrian identity, leaving their children to face an unknown future without any regional, Arab or international recognition of the granted certification.

 

Meanwhile, the meeting’s attendants proposed the adoption of the UNICEF curriculum until a unified curriculum to be found for all Syrians and to depoliticize the educational process.