Michel Kilo

Michel Kilo (Arabic ميشيل كيلو, * 1940, Lattakia ) is a Syrian opposition, regime critic and journalist. He writes for the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar, and is the author of several articles and manifestos to state power and society development.

Life

The Christian Syrians 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 together with Mechaal Tamo and Mohammad Abdallah society committees. As part of the activities organized with Riad al - Turk first national democratic Roundtable in Syria to the opposition, representatives of industry and the intelligence was invited, he was responsible for the root of all evil in Syria, the former head of state Hafiz al -Assad. He accused him of suppressing all democratic thought good and the insgeheime collaboration with the United States.

In 2005 he initiated the Damascus Declaration, from the Riad Seif was the first signatory. The goal was the democratization of Syria. In 2006 kilos was therefore detained. After his release in 2009 he started on April 15, 2013 in Cairo, the Syrian Democratic Forum with people from the civil society, such as Samir Aita Areth Delilah and Fayez Sara ..