Syrien: Amnesty wirft Kurdenmiliz Vertreibungen vor

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Sie sollen Dörfer niedergerissen und Tausende Zivilisten vertrieben haben - nach Ansicht von Amnesty International könnte die syrische Kurdenmiliz YPG Kriegsverbrechen begangen haben. Die YPG wird von den USA unterstützt.

 

Die syrische Kurdenmiliz YPG hat nach Darstellung von Amnesty International Tausende Zivilisten im Norden des Landes vertrieben und ihre Häuser zerstört. Die Taten verstießen gegen das humanitäre Völkerrecht und liefen auf Kriegsverbrechen hinaus, erklärte die Menschenrechtsorganisation am Dienstag. Ein YPG-Sprecher wies die Anschuldigungen zurück.

 

Die Miliz, die der Kurdischen Arbeiterpartei PKK nahesteht, ist im Kampf gegen die Extremistenorganisation"Islamischer Staat" (IS) der wichtigste Partner der USA. In diesem Jahr konnte sie bei Gefechten mit IS-Kämpfern wichtige Erfolge erzielen.Amnesty warf der Gruppe vor, vor allem nichtkurdische Bewohner nach der Einnahme von Dörfern vertrieben zu haben. Hintergrund seien vermeintliche Sympathien oder Verbindungen zum IS. Die Menschenrechtler beriefen sich dabei auf Gespräche mit 37 Bewohnern der syrischen Provinzen Hassaka und Rakka. Die Milizionäre drohten demnach danach mit, Luftangriffe der US-geführten Allianz anzufordern.

Die YPG haben jüngst mit mehreren syrisch-arabischen Rebellengruppen ein neues Militärbündnis in Syrien gegen den IS gegründet. Sie wollen in Zukunft gemeinsam unter dem Namen "Demokratische Kräfte Syriens" firmieren.

Die USA haben die kurdischen und arabischen Milizen aus der Luft mit Kampfjets unterstützt und nun offenbar ihre Unterstützung ausgeweitet. Sie sollen 50 Tonnen Munition für die Rebellen im Norden Syriens abgeworfen haben.

Mehrere mit den USA verbündete Regierungen betrachten allerdings die Kurdenmiliz YPG skeptisch bis feindlich: Die PKK, ihre Mutterorganisation, steht noch immer auf der Liste der Terrororganisationen mehrerer europäischer Länder wegen ihrer Anschläge auf türkische militärische und zivile Ziele in den Achtziger- und Neunzigerjahren. Der Krieg zwischen der Türkei und der PKK ist im Juli wieder aufgeflammt.

 

13.10.2015 Spiegel

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[h=1]Yazidis burn Muslim homes in Iraq’s Sinjar, witnesses say[/h]http://vid.alarabiya.net/images/2015/11/15/229587cd-8fd8-4683-bf59-1303a58f9961/229587cd-8fd8-4683-bf59-1303a58f9961_16x9_788x442.jpgSmoke believed to be from an airstrike billows over the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015. (AP)

 

 

 

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AFP, Arbil/IraqSunday, 15 November 2015

Members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, which was brutally attacked by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, looted and burned Muslim homes in Sinjar after its recapture from the militants, witnesses said Sunday.

ISIS overran the northern town last year, targeting Yazidis -- whose faith it considers heretical -- in a campaign of massacres, enslavement and rape that the United Nations has described as a possible genocide.

Yazidis fleeing the ISIS onslaught in August 2014 told AFP that some of their Muslim neighbors enabled the attacks, identifying them for the jihadists.

Sinjar was recaptured from ISIS on Friday in a major operation led by forces from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region and backed by U.S.-led air strikes.

"Muslim houses were looted and burned," especially those that had "Sunni" written on them after ISIS seized the town, said one witness, who declined to be named.

An AFP journalist saw houses in Sinjar that had been marked "Sunni", possibly as a means for ISIS to identify which homes should be protected.

"I saw one of the mosques burned at the hands of Yazidis," the witness said.

A second witness, who also asked not to be identified by name, also reported seeing Yazidis looting Muslim homes and setting them alight.

Kurdish security commanders denied that burning and looting was taking place, and accounts of the unrest could not be independently confirmed.

Rights group Amnesty International documented attacks by Yazidi militiamen against two Sunni Arab villages north of Sinjar in January, in which 21 people were killed and numerous houses burned.

Looting and burning has followed the recapture of other areas in Iraq from ISIS, sparking resentment among residents and posing a threat to long-term stability.

 

Last Update: Sunday, 15 November 2015 KSA 19:08 - GMT 16:08

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[h=1]Yazidis burn Muslim homes in Iraq’s Sinjar, witnesses say[/h]http://vid.alarabiya.net/images/2015/11/15/229587cd-8fd8-4683-bf59-1303a58f9961/229587cd-8fd8-4683-bf59-1303a58f9961_16x9_788x442.jpgSmoke believed to be from an airstrike billows over the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015. (AP)

 

 

 

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AFP, Arbil/IraqSunday, 15 November 2015

Members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, which was brutally attacked by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, looted and burned Muslim homes in Sinjar after its recapture from the militants, witnesses said Sunday.

ISIS overran the northern town last year, targeting Yazidis -- whose faith it considers heretical -- in a campaign of massacres, enslavement and rape that the United Nations has described as a possible genocide.

Yazidis fleeing the ISIS onslaught in August 2014 told AFP that some of their Muslim neighbors enabled the attacks, identifying them for the jihadists.

Sinjar was recaptured from ISIS on Friday in a major operation led by forces from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region and backed by U.S.-led air strikes.

"Muslim houses were looted and burned," especially those that had "Sunni" written on them after ISIS seized the town, said one witness, who declined to be named.

An AFP journalist saw houses in Sinjar that had been marked "Sunni", possibly as a means for ISIS to identify which homes should be protected.

"I saw one of the mosques burned at the hands of Yazidis," the witness said.

A second witness, who also asked not to be identified by name, also reported seeing Yazidis looting Muslim homes and setting them alight.

Kurdish security commanders denied that burning and looting was taking place, and accounts of the unrest could not be independently confirmed.

Rights group Amnesty International documented attacks by Yazidi militiamen against two Sunni Arab villages north of Sinjar in January, in which 21 people were killed and numerous houses burned.

Looting and burning has followed the recapture of other areas in Iraq from ISIS, sparking resentment among residents and posing a threat to long-term stability.

 

Last Update: Sunday, 15 November 2015 KSA 19:08 - GMT 16:08