August 13, 2013 "The Al Nusra Front and Daulat al-Islam are Islamist groups that are Al Qaeda-linked militia groups and a part of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). They have been in open and extreme war against the Kurdish Protection Forces of YPG, which controls most of the Kurdish territory in northern Syria. The Islamists do not differentiate between civilians and fighters, and the groups hold hundreds of Kurdish civilian hostages and have killed tens of them. In one event, around 50 Kurdish men, women, and children were killed in a village near Aleppo. According to the latest reports, tens of women and children were recently killed in the city of Tal Abyad. Civilian Kurds run for their life in fear of the extreme Islamists, who have declared fatwas (religious statements) against the killing of Kurds, as they regard them as Kufar. The main Kurdish political parties had refused to join the FSA because the FSA had denied the recognition of Kurdish political and cultural rights in a post-Assad regime. However, the Kurds have managed to secure their territory and protect the area form the internal war. Kurdish control over the Kurdish territory disturbs both Turkey and the FSA. Kurdish territory, which is under the control of the YPG, is surrounded by Islamist and FSA forces in the south and west and the Turkish border and forces in the north. Also, it is possible that the eastern border that separates Syrian Kurdish territory from Iraqi Kurdistan has been closed by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). The KDP argues that the border was not closed for humanitarian aims, but the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Kurdish human right activists have denied this claim. The humanitarian situation of the Kurds in Syrian Kurdistan is very critical. They are perhaps victims who are waiting for genocide."
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 12:21:29 +0000
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