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.
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Maybe Obama will show them the same appreciation he did Doctors Without Borders.
Maybe the Kurds are getting a bit tired of being raped and murdered.
Slight correction...
We shoulda done it on the way into Iraq.
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.
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.
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.
“Maybe the Kurds are getting a bit tired of being raped and murdered.”
NAH........
I agree but let them slug it out.
The Kurds are probably the least guilty of all the guilty parties.
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.
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.
good!
I hope the Kurds kill every last one of the SOB and their demon spawn!
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.
“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.
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
The Russians have agreements to arm the Kurds
the right Kurds
the ones interested in killing ISIL
I think there`s an obscure expression, let`s see. It`s something about paybacks and female dogs..., can you help me out, here?
Yepper!!
Simple answers to complex problems...
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!
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