Lazgin Ahmed and his family lived last week in darbāsīyah (Dirbêsiyê in Kurdish), on the Syrian-Turkish border. Since Turkey has started its war against the Kurds, to the family in Hasaka (Hesîçe) and trying to survive. “The Situation is very bad,” says the father of a six-month-old daughter in a media report. He could not buy milk because the shops were closed. Bread is very difficult to find and very expensive.
“there is no water,” says the refugee more. In Hasaka, which is located about 70 kilometers South of the border, is broken the water supply. The Central water system of qamishli was bombed by the Turkish army. As the family of Lazgin Ahmed many of the about 100’000 Displaced persons who have come in the last days in the Region of Hasaka.
160’000 to 300’000 Displaced people
According to the UN refugee Agency, UNHCR, the Turkish attacks on the 9 since the beginning. October, an estimated 166 000 people in the North-East, Syria on the run. Including about 70’000 are children. The Syrian Observatory for human rights, the number of Displaced persons is estimated on about 300’000 people. At least 1600 people have fled to Iraq. A camp is located to the North of Mosul. Thousands are on the way to the Iraqi border.
The UN world food programme (WFP) keeps food packages for five days for 450’000 people in the Region. So far, the WFP food has been distributed to around 170’000 people. His offer wants to increase the WFP, according to its own information, in the course of the month, so it’s enough for 580’000 people. The UNHCR is preparing to protection and assistance for 500’000 people. In the IDP camps currently distributing clothes for the colder months.
Turkish war against the Kurds: escape from the border town of Ras al-Ain (Sari Kani). Photo: Keystone
aid agencies to reports of the disastrous living conditions for the Displaced. In the competitive areas, many hospitals had to be closed. And the open hospitals are completely overloaded. Power no longer exists in many places. Also, the water supply is limited in several areas. Displaced persons squatting in former schools, huts, or sleep under the open sky. Who was lucky, was able to come with Relatives and Acquaintances, or strangers families.
“will hit The most Vulnerable hardest,” writes the UNHCR in his report on the situation. Media reports of tragedies of the last few days, about the end of the game children were killed by mortar shells. The war, obviously, is conducted without regard to the civilian population. A Kurdish employee of the Red cross told according to media reports, he did. after a Turkish air attack on 12 October worn in the vicinity of a school, charred corpses from the wreckage.
Turkish military forces and allied Syrian armed groups have displayed an utterly callous disregard for civilian lives, launching unlawful deadly attacks in residential areas that have killed and injured civilians amounting to war crimes https://t.co/knkWeCuIKZ
— Amnesty press (@Amnesty press) October 18, 2019
Amnesty International Turkey’s war crimes in Northern Syria accuses. The Turkish armed forces and their Syrian allies have perpetrated in their military offensive against the Kurdish militia YPG “war crimes, mass killings, and unlawful attacks”. Amnesty declared to have “overwhelming evidence of indiscriminate attacks in residential areas”. Amnesty Secretary-General, Kumi Naidoo, speaks of a “perfect indifference to the lives of civilians”.
According to the Amnesty international report, attacked the Ankara-controlled armed forces, among other things, a house, a bakery and a school. Amnesty relies on video recordings, as well as statements from 17 witnesses, among them rescue workers, medical personnel, humanitarian workers, Displaced persons, and journalists.
the fighting, despite the ceasefire
in Spite of the on Thursday between the United States and Turkey, negotiated the ceasefire were on Friday morning to continue fighting in the aisle. In the border town of Ras al-Ain (Sari Kani in Kurdish), there were battles, the “club” tents, such as news agencies report. In the case of Turkish air attacks on a village to the East of Ras al-Ain should be at least five civilians have been killed.
After the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Northern Syria, Turkey, last week, had begun its military offensive in the Kurdish-controlled area. According to the Syrian Observatory for human rights yet to be nearly 500 people were killed, including dozens of civilians.
Created: 18.10.2019, 15:59 PM
