🎗Mashaal Tammo🎗 was a Syrian Kurdish dissident who fought for a pluralistic and inclusive Syria. He was born in 1957 in the city of Derbasiya in the countryside of Hasaka. He graduated with an agricultural engineering degree from Aleppo University. #100faces #9yearsstrong 
Tammo was a member of the Kurdish Popular Union Party for +20 yrs. In 1999 he co-founded the Committees for the Revival of Civil Society in Syria and the Bedir Khan Cultural Forum, where people discussed political reforms, human rights and issues related to the Kurdish minority.
In 2005, Tammo founded the Kurdish Future Movement following the Qamishli massacre, the regime’s response to a Kurdish uprising for greater rights✊. He was arrested in 2008, transferred to Damascus's Political Security Intelligence branch and sentenced to 3 years in prison.
Mashaal Tammo participated actively to the Syrian Revolution. He received many calls to join regime-sponsored political dialogue, but refused and preferred to side with the Syrian people, rejecting political dialogue with the regime whilst it was engaging in committing war crimes
Mashaal Tammo called on all components of the Syrian people to engage in the revolutionary movement to overthrow the Assad regime, and rejected sectarian and ethnic divisions. He continued his revolutionary activities despite threats of assassination.
Mashaal Tammo narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in September 2011, but unfortunately, gunmen succeeded in killing him at his home in October 2011. More than 50.000 mourners marched for his funeral procession in Qamishli.
Mashaal Tammo fought for the freedom of all Syrians, and believed in a pluralistic, inclusive Syria as shown by his speeches during the demonstrations✊. Watch and share this tribute video made for him: youtube.com/watch?v=v4D5Np…
Find his story, and others in the blog …esofthesyrianrevolution.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/mes…
