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| MP: PKK frees Zargali civilians, detains village leader |
| 2015-10-09 |
| [RUDAW.NET] Two Zargali villagers whose families were devastated by Turkish Soran Omar, chairman of Kurdistan region's parliamentary Human Rights Committee, delivered the update to Rudaw on Wednesday, but added, "We have received complaints that PKK kidnapped children around the ages of 14 to 15, and they are not letting them see their parents." Omar condemned the Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq for detaining villagers on allegations of making anti-PKK remarks to the media. Salim Khider and Jegir Jabar were released, said Omar, but the village leader, Ismail Abdulla, remains in detention. "We are trying our best to rescue him," Omar said of Abdulla. "We are very disappointed by the PKK's behavior because they do not have the authority to detain citizens in Kurdistan regional territory," Omar said. "If they have anything on anyone they need to ask the KRG government offices." Eight non-combatants were killed in Zargali on August 1 in an ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... that leveled most of the village. Ankara has maintained that the strikes targeted PKK fighters who operate bases near the village. A scathing ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations by Turkey. The investigation concluded that there were no PKK checkpoints inside the village, rendering the |
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