In Kassel have over on Monday 100 People in solidarity with the population in Rojava (Northeast Syria) demonstrated. The trigger was the murder of 26-year-old Sîpan Hiznî. The young Kurd was part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (In the speeches, the attacks were seen as a retaliatory strike by the Turkish state for the successful suppression of an attempted IS uprising) and was kidnapped by a tribal militia on Thursday and executed on camera.
Protests then broke out in Kobanê, those of security forces of the Syrian transitional government (HTS) were knocked down. Some of the protesters were arrested. Nine of them died in a fire after a prison riot.
At the rally in Kassel there were consequences for the murder of Hizni and the protection of Kurdish rights:demanded inside Syria. Already in January, several thousand people demonstrated against HTS attacks on self-government in Rojava. The latest attacks come at a critical phase in the self-government integration process into the new Syrian state.