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Syria Kurds 'razing villages seized from IS' - Amnesty
BBC ^ | October 13, 2015

Posted on 10/13/2015 11:43:01 AM PDT by keat

Kurdish forces have carried out a wave of forced displacement and mass house demolitions - amounting to war crimes - in northern Syria, a rights group says.

A report by Amnesty International accuses the Popular Protection Units (YPG) of razing entire villages after capturing them from Islamic State (IS).

This appeared to be in retaliation for residents' perceived sympathies with or links to the jihadist group, it says.

The YPG has consistently denied accusations of forced displacements.

However, the YPG - a key ally of the US-led international coalition against IS - and its political parent the PYD have admitted to some "isolated incidents".

Coalition air strikes, as well as air drops of weapons and ammunition, have helped the militia to drive IS out of large parts of northern Syria this year.

The Amnesty report came as the US said it had dropped more than 45 tonnes of ammunition to rebels in north-western Syria.

Civilians 'caught in middle'

On Tuesday, Amnesty said its researchers had uncovered evidence of "alarming abuses" carried out by the YPG - the military wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) - in towns and villages controlled by the Kurdish Autonomous Administration in Hassakeh and Raqqa provinces.

Its report quoted one witness in the village of Husseiniya, in Hassakeh province, as saying: "They pulled us out of our homes and began burning the home... they brought the bulldozers... They demolished home after home until the entire village was destroyed."

Satellite images illustrated the scale of the demolitions in Husseiniya, Amnesty said. Of 225 buildings visible in June 2014, only 14 were still standing by June 2015.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
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To: keat
Obama will appreciate Amnesty International's support in quickly labeling Kurds as war criminals.

Maybe Obama will show them the same appreciation he did Doctors Without Borders.

21 posted on 10/13/2015 11:59:49 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: keat

Maybe the Kurds are getting a bit tired of being raped and murdered.


22 posted on 10/13/2015 12:02:48 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: McGruff
Wasn’t Amnesty International quiet when Christian people were losing their heads?

Slight correction...

23 posted on 10/13/2015 12:03:16 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: keat
Syria needs to be phoenixed.

We shoulda done it on the way into Iraq.

24 posted on 10/13/2015 12:04:17 PM PDT by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: Sequoyah101

You are right.

But we still need to arm the Kurds heavily.

They have no interest in attacking us on our soil.

I have not read one article that has even insinuated it.

I dont care what they burn or what they do, frankly, as long as it’s not done to Christians and they leave us alone.


25 posted on 10/13/2015 12:05:58 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: keat

Just like the war crimes Gen. Sherman committed in the South in his infamous March to the Sea, burning civilians homes and farms to the ground. No wonder many families in the South still remember the suffering of their ancestors at the hands of the Union.


26 posted on 10/13/2015 12:06:44 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: lee martell

If these are places where ISIS fighters found refuge, it makes sense to leave them no where to hide and then start over. Let them leave for Turkey or the EU or be killed.


27 posted on 10/13/2015 12:10:40 PM PDT by grania
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To: keat
Oh, no! Someone is defeating ISIS! That MUST be a human rights violation!
28 posted on 10/13/2015 12:11:15 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Cicero

“Maybe the Kurds are getting a bit tired of being raped and murdered.”

NAH........


29 posted on 10/13/2015 12:17:36 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: dp0622

I agree but let them slug it out.

The Kurds are probably the least guilty of all the guilty parties.


30 posted on 10/13/2015 12:19:52 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: txrefugee

Sherman considered it better to destroy property and quickly end the ability of the south to supply it’s armies rather than let the slaughter continue on. And it worked.


31 posted on 10/13/2015 12:22:05 PM PDT by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: Sequoyah101

i dont even care if they’re guilty lol.

they the ONLY ones, including Assad, Russia, Iran, and China that have never, even indirectly had hostility towards us.

But i’d rather have assad than ISIS.

Syria, Russia and Kurds vs ISIS and Turkey :)

kick them out of NATO first. or renege. i dont care.


32 posted on 10/13/2015 12:26:12 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: keat

good!

I hope the Kurds kill every last one of the SOB and their demon spawn!


33 posted on 10/13/2015 12:29:17 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: 100American

VERY good point, and I think probably the reasoning. No reason to get personnel blowed up clearing boobie traps when you can just knock the structure down and let it blow.


34 posted on 10/13/2015 12:30:20 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: keat

“amounting to war crimes”

Actually, since the Kurds are a nationless people, it’s impossible for them to commit “war crimes”, since they cannot be signatories to any of the conventions that define “war crimes”.

If we want them to be bound by our rules, we need to let them have a homeland first.


35 posted on 10/13/2015 12:34:44 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: keat

This stuff guarantees endearment to the peasants and that the US-supplied YPG will be yet another valued member of a future democratic government to replace the awful terrible boogey man Assad


36 posted on 10/13/2015 12:40:58 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: dp0622

The Russians have agreements to arm the Kurds

the right Kurds

the ones interested in killing ISIL


37 posted on 10/13/2015 12:42:23 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: keat

I think there`s an obscure expression, let`s see. It`s something about paybacks and female dogs..., can you help me out, here?


38 posted on 10/13/2015 12:44:48 PM PDT by nomad
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To: ichabod1

Yepper!!

Simple answers to complex problems...


39 posted on 10/13/2015 12:45:39 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: keat

Americans think you defeat your enemy by destroying his ability to make war.

W R O N G

You defeat your enemy by DESTROYING your enemy!


40 posted on 10/13/2015 12:47:04 PM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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