Michel Kilo
Michel Kilo ( Arabic ميشيل كيلو, DMG Mīšīl Kīlū ; * 1940 in Latakia ) is a Syrian opposition activist, critic of the regime and journalist. He writes for the Lebanese newspaper an-Nahar and is the author of several articles and manifestos on state power and social development.
Life
Michel Kilo was born into a Christian family in the northern Syrian coastal town of Latakia . He later studied journalism , history and economics at the universities of Münster and Munich . He was first imprisoned in 1979 for two years without trial.
In 1999 he founded society committees together with Mechaal Tamo and Mohammad Abdallah. In the course of the first national-democratic round table in Syria, organized with Riad al-Turk , to which opposition members, representatives of the economy and the intelligentsia were invited, he held the former head of state Hafiz al-Assad responsible for the root of all evil in Syria. He accused him of the suppression of all democratic ideas and the secret collaboration with the USA.
In 2005 he initiated the Damascus Declaration , of which Riad Seïf was the first to sign. The goal was the democratization of Syria. In 2006 Kilo was arrested for this. He was released from prison in 2009.
Kilo lives in Doha .
Syrian civil war
In a 2012 interview, Kilo was disappointed that some leftists in the West would describe the Syrian revolution as an Islamist conspiracy and fail to take into account the desire of the Syrian people for freedom. He also criticized the disagreement that prevails in the ranks of the Syrian opposition. On April 15, 2013, he founded the Syrian Democratic Forum in Cairo with people from civil society such as Samir Aita, Areth Delila and Fayez Sara.
Web links
- Mona Sarkis: Actually, it was our turn. In: Telepolis. January 14, 2005, accessed December 24, 2014 .
- netzeitung.de The invasion of Iraq has thrown back Syria's opposition ( Memento from January 27, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Syria's Kilo pledges to continue struggle ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Syrie: un opposant kurde assassiné , Le Figaro , October 7, 2011.
- ↑ The endgame in Syria will be messy , Gulf News , October 6, 2017th
- ↑ Interview: Michel Kilo on the civil movement and the prospects after Assad , Adopt a Revolution , October 8, 2012.
- ↑ Syria: UN Mission is a Great Opportunity , WG Friedensforschung , May 29, 2012.
- ↑ Syrie: “La période de transition va être très dure” , Le Figaro , August 15, 2012.
- ^ "L'opposition syrienne doit coopérer avec les Russes" , Le Figaro , April 4, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kilos, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Syrian opposition activist, regime critic and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Latakia |