Posted on 10/16/2019 8:58:07 PM PDT by rintintin
Kurdish forces allied to the U.S.-led coalition in the fight against the Islamic State have committed war crimes by deliberately displacing thousands of civilians and demolishing their homes in northern Syria, according to a human rights group.
In a report released Tuesday, Amnesty International said that the People's Protection Units (YPG)—the military wing of the Syrian Kurdish political party, the Democratic Union Party—had in some cases threatened residents with U.S. airstrikes if they did not leave their homes.
The YPG has been a key ally on the ground for Western forces battling ISIS in Syria. Earlier this year, the YPG reclaimed the Syrian-Kurdish border town of Kobani from ISIS with the support of U.S. airstrikes, and recently reportedly formed a coalition with other U.S.-backed rebel groups, such as the Free Syrian Army.
Forcibly displacing civilians without military necessity is considered a violation of international humanitarian law, according to Amnesty. Lama Fakih, Amnesty's senior crisis advisor, called on members of the U.S.-led coalition not "to turn a blind eye" to such abuses by Kurdish forces.
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The only angels in a war zone are people who have died.
How so?
This is a part of the world where conflicts are brutal and bloody. No quarter is given or asked for. Also this is a part of the world where vendettas last for generations. That we even think that the Kurds fight with rules is a joke. It’s all pure politics
Because they went to heaven.
I don’t mean that literally. If you’re in a war zone, you are acting with various degrees of unethical behaviour to ensure your survival.
As I understand it, the Kurds are among the more Westernized Arabs. If they were at peace, they would be the modernized in terms of their societal development. It is one of the reasons that the rest of the ME oppresses them.
Who told you people who go to heaven become angels?
As I said, my point wasn’t meant to be taken literally.
I am familiar that angels are a different order and species from man.:)
You'd be surprised how many people don't.
Don't get me started on the Rainbow Bridge, LOL!
SMFH
You CANT ACCEPT that this was a wrong move and if it wasn’t Trump wouldn’t have to be threatening Turkey and ISIS prisoners wouldn’t have escaped.
Again, SMH
Let the locals fight it out.
Yes, let the locals fight it out as they have for hundreds of years.
We are not the policemen of the world and we are in debt. We need to look after the future of our children and not every barbarian with a barbaric religion.
In the case of the Kurds doing the fighting in Syria their brand of modernity is based on Marxist ideologies. If you believe in Marx's theory of the march of progress then they are "modern" in the extreme. Personally I'm not a big fan of that kind of future, so when it comes to the YPG and others like them they are useful allies against common enemies, but that's about it.
Good catch. So Nancy Pelosi is a terrorist supporter.
“Forcibly displacing civilians without military necessity”
This was the key to the dispute with the “Human Rights” group claims. The war with ISIS was very heavy at the time and we and our allies needed the people we were defending not left where they would be subject to ISIS attacks and we would be stretched to thin to get to aid them. It is not the first time in a war when civilians are asked to leave and an area, for good reason.
So I guess you are part of the rehabilitate Erdogan brigade today??
“... Kurds are among the more Westernized Arabs ...”
No, they’re not Arabs. Kurds are a Persian ethnic group from Kurdistan, a mountainous region in Western Asia.
While the PKK has evolved over the last couple of decades, their roots are in Maoist Communism. Carried out a lot of terrorist attacks inside Turkey (not that the Turks haven’t been nasty to the Minority Kurds inside Turkey). Really crazy stuff.
PKK is different from the Peshmerga that the US worked with in Iraq.
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