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Turkey-backed proxy forces appear to commit war crimes in northern Syria | |
2019-10-13 | |
[RUDAW.NET] Bearded fighters walk through an area they claim to be the entrance to Sari Kani, the Syria- ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... border town where the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have resisted an onslaught from the mighty "Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!" one of the Arabic-speaking fighters shouts to the camera with other fighters in tow. "The Azaz Forces ... are entering the doors of Ras al-Ain, Allahu Akbar," referring to the Kurdish town by its official, Arabic name. ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedomat the convenience of the state... abuses in the city of Afrin, under their control since March 2018. These same forces are now on the border with Rojava, the self-administered region in northeast Syria controlled by the SDF. Turkey has dubbed the current offensive Operation Peace Spring. Close to 200,000 civilians have fled the pounding of the area by the invading In a separate video posted on a proxy-affiliated Telegram channel named Operation Peace Spring, two civilians and a young man purportedly wearing military fatigues, are surrounded roadside by a group of the The video caption claims the video of the three men was recorded on the Manbij-Hasaka road on Saturday, the same day the "We have captured three fleeing militia of the PKK... Allahu Akbar..." says a man whose face is not shown, at which time other fighters shout "Allahu Akbar." The three terrified men, one of whom is bleeding from his nose, crouch by the side of the road. Towards the end of the video, one Ahrar al-Sharqiya fighter can be heard faintly: "We know what are going to do to you." The video cuts. Late on Saturday, another video showing The fighters are in clothing identical to those posted on the Operation Peace Spring channel. "Allahu Akbar, film me, film me," one of the fighters shouts as he empties his AK-47 into the supine body of a man as dust rises from the ground. Another appears with a sniper rifle and shoots the man. "The pigs of the party," another one shouts, referring to the main political party in northern Syria, the Democratic Union Party. Gunfire could be heard in the background. With a final shout of Allahu Akbar, the video is cut. On Saturday, the general staff of the Syrian proxy forces, known as the "National Army," issued instruction - a copy of which was posted on Twitter - banning fighters from recording any event in the battlefield. Under international humanitarian law, any torture or inhumane treatment of prisoners of war and civilians is considered a war crime. An SDF source told Rudaw Saturday that three individuals were killed by the How Turkey treats POWs.
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