Posted on 07/02/2017 3:36:08 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Al-Raqqa – Mercenaries are applied to civilians in the city of Al-Raqqa and prevent them to leave to being used as human shields. They are taken to the center of the city for use them in battles in the city center.
Since June 6, the city of Raqqa has been the scene of fierce clashes between fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces and IS-mercenaries. After 24 days of fierce fighting, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) managed to tighten the siege on mercenaries within the city from four sides.
The SDF-fighters continue to destroy the defense lines, fortifications and strategic positions of the mercenaries on a daily basis in the city of Raqqa, the main stronghold of mercenaries in Syria.
So far, Syrian Democratic Forces have liberated six neighborhoods completely from IS and fight them in five neighborhoods, 3 of them in the West and 2 in the East. Most of the civilians were taken from the neighborhoods where clashes are taking place. They were sent to other quarters to use them as human shields in the coming days.
The Roman Quarter, liberated on 11 June, Hayy Hittin and the Al-Bareed in the west of the city, had been turned by mercenaries into a military zone after their collapse in Minbij on August 12 2016. In these quarters there were no civilians when the fight took place. But in the westerns neighborhoods of Al-Dariyah and Al-Yarmouk, the IS mercinaries detonated and planted mines in front of the civilians’ door and took them to the city center, as they did in al-Rawdah neighborhood in the east, in addition to digging tunnels. Those who contravene their practices are arrested, imprisoned, and taken to an unknown destination.
The practices of mercenaries did not stop here, they took all their persononal papers and identity cards, so they could never get out.
The families that managed to escape and return to their homes, remained without food or water for many days until the Syrian Democratic Forces managed to liberate them, providing food and water to them. Then they could be deliveried to liberated points, where they can stay until the liberation of the entire city will be finished and they return to their homes.
I sincerely hope your vision wins out over mine.
Again, while your heart may indeed be in the right place, it is high time that we send these present-day bad actors who act in the name of their Allah, into the past for the sake of the future. It’s long-past the time for negotiations. Unfortunately, life AND death are not necessarily “fair”. Winning by any means necessary may involve some of that so-called unfairness, especially when our sworn enemy(s) are willing to go that far against us in the first place.
“it is high time that we send these **present-day bad actors** who act in the name of their Allah, into the past for the sake of the future”
No argument.
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