Destruction of Western Kurdistan by absolutely EVERYONE

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Flagrant war crimes committed in Idlib

Syrian pro-government forces and their jihadist opponents flagrantly violated the laws of war during the battle for Idlib province, UN investigators say

Civilians endured "unfathomable suffering" when the Syrian military launched a campaign late last year to retake the area, according to a report.

They were subjected to indiscriminate air strikes and ground shelling, as well as arrests, torture and pillaging.

Hundreds of civilians were killed before a ceasefire was agreed in March.

Almost one million were displaced by the fighting and many were forced to live in dire conditions in overcrowded camps or open fields.

Now, the investigators warn, "a perfect storm is in the making" as the war-torn country faces both the coronavirus pandemic and an economic crisis.

More than 380,000 people have been killed and 13.2 million others - half of Syria's pre-war population - have been displaced inside and outside the country since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011.

The 29-page report released on Tuesday by the UN's independent commission of inquiry on Syria covers the period from November 2019 to June 2020.

It catalogues 52 "emblematic attacks" by all parties that led to civilian casualties or damage to civilian infrastructure, including 47 attributed to pro-government forces.

The Syrian military and the allied Russian air force carried out attacks that "decimated civilian infrastructure, depopulated towns and villages, and claimed the lives of hundreds of Syrian women, men and children", investigators found.

Hospitals, schools, markets and homes in opposition-held areas were destroyed by air strikes and ground shelling, in acts the report says amounted to war crimes - the crimes of launching indiscriminate attacks, and deliberate attacks on protected objects.

The bombardment of the towns of Maarat al-Numan, Ariha, Atareb and Darat Izza foreseeably led to the mass displacement of civilians, which the report says may amount to the crimes against humanity of forcible transfer and murder.

The report accuses militants from the jihadist alliance that dominates the opposition stronghold - Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a UN-designated terrorist group - of detaining, torturing, and executing civilians expressing dissenting opinions.

HTS also pillaged the homes of displaced civilians and indiscriminately shelled densely populated government-held areas "with no apparent legitimate military objective", spreading terror among civilians living there, the investigators found.

"It is completely abhorrent that, after more than nine years, civilians continue to be indiscriminately attacked, or even targeted, while going about their daily lives," said the commission of inquiry's chairman, Paulo Pinheiro.

"What is clear from the military campaign is that pro-government forces and UN-designated terrorists flagrantly violated the laws of war and the rights of Syrian civilians."

The Syrian and Russian governments have denied committing war crimes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53322857

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Idlib virus case raises fears for camps

A mainly rebel-held province in Western Kurdistan has confirmed its first coronavirus case, sparking fears of a devastating outbreak in crowded camps holding displaced people

A doctor contracted the virus at a hospital in a town in Idlib near the Turkish border, aid groups said.

They said the doctor was self-isolating and his contacts were being traced.

The hospital where the doctor worked has been closed, said a World Health Organization official in Turkey.

For months aid groups have issued stark warnings about the risks of a coronavirus outbreak in Western Kurdistan.

Last year, the Syrian government launched an offensive to retake Idlib - the last opposition-held province in the region - from jihadist forces.

Almost one million people have fled their homes in the area since last December, with many of them now living in overcrowded refugee camps with inadequate healthcare facilities and little clean water.

There are fears the virus will spread rapidly through these vulnerable populations, overwhelming an already ravaged healthcare system.

Around six million people in total are estimated to be internally displaced within Syria, where a civil war has been raging since 2011.

A fragile ceasefire is currently place in Idlib. International charity Save the Children says that the truce needs to hold if there is any chance of containing the disease.

"Now more than ever, guns need to remain silent, the ceasefire needs to hold and all efforts have to be geared towards the aid and health response," Sonia Khush, Save the Children's Syria response director, said.

She said the confirmation of the first case in Idlib was "a major blow to the millions of civilians - mainly women and children - living in this area".

Syria has officially recorded 372 cases of coronavirus, including 14 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.

But given the lack of testing, the number of infections and deaths are thought to be higher. As of 30 June, just 1,661 tests have been carried out in north-west Syria, according to Save the Children.

The charity said it understood there was only one testing facility in the region.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53358569

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We face famine or virus:

Syria's displaced alarmed at aid impasse

After surviving months of bombardment, Nasr Sultan now fears his 10 children may starve or catch coronavirus as a divided UN holds up a renewal of cross-border humanitarian aid to rebel-held northwest Syria.

A UN Security Council resolution authorising aid deliveries through the Turkish border expired on Friday as Russia and China vetoed an extension.

The world body's failure to agree on a compromise formula has threatened humanitarian assistance to an estimated 2.8 million people who depend on such handouts.

Germany and Belgium are still working on an initiative to rescue the authorisation in place since 2014, with hopes of bringing it to a vote this weekend.

But regime-ally Russia is pushing for reduced access on the grounds of sovereignty, prompting outrage in northwest Syria's Idlib province, which this week recorded its first coronavirus cases.

In a crowded Idlib displacement camp, 45-year-old Nasr said life without aid would plunge into hunger many of those who had already lost their homes in Syria's nine-year war.

"We have abandoned our home, our land and our livelihoods. The aid they give us is all we have," he said from inside his tent near the town of Maaret Misrin.

"If the assistance is scrapped, we will face famine."

- 'Coronavirus will get us' -

The Idlib region, Syria's last major opposition bastion, is home to some three million people, nearly half of whom have been displaced from other regions.

Nasr's family fled their hometown in southern Idlib to safer areas near the border with Turkey after a regime offensive that displaced nearly a million people between December and March.

A truce has stemmed the Russia-backed campaign on Idlib, a region dominated by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist group led by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate, and their rebel allies.

Apart from food insecurity, Idlib has recorded at least three cases of COVID-19 since Thursday, sparking fears of a health catastrophe if the pandemic hits overcrowded displacement camps.

The confirmed cases are all medical personnel working in hospitals near the Turkish border.

"If medical assistance is not delivered to the camps, then we will be finished" said Nasr. "The coronavirus will get us."

Abed al-Salam Youssef, also displaced, said camp residents will be more vulnerable to the coronavirus if aid is halted, especially since many will have to venture out to seek food and work.

"How can we commit to confinement inside the camps if people can't even secure their basic daily needs without humanitarian assistance?" he asked.

"Most of the displaced rely entirely on monthly food baskets" distributed by aid groups to survive, Youssef added.

- 'Politicising' aid -

Save the Children also condemned the UN's failure so far to renew the authorisation for aid distribution to the displaced without having to pass through Damascus.

"The border crossings were the only meaningful way for vital humanitarian aid ... to reach families in northwest Syria," it said in a statement.

"If the border crossings are not reinstated, many families will not be able to eat, will not receive healthcare, and will not find shelter" said the charity's CEO, Inger Ashing.

European countries and the US want to maintain two crossings on the Turkish border -- at Bab al-Salama, which leads to the Aleppo region, and Bab al-Hawa, serving Idlib.

An alternative proposal submitted by Russia would keep only the Bab al-Hawa access point open, for one year.

Moscow says more than 85 percent of aid has been going through Bab al-Hawa and that Bab al-Salama can be closed.

In January, Moscow succeeded in reducing the crossing points from four to two, and in limiting the extension to six months.

The International Crisis Group accuses Russia of "politicising cross-border aid" to Syria and warns that the policy could backfire.

"Continuing to attempt to make a political point at the expense of the most vulnerable could drive Western states to revert to a pre-2014 modus operandi, bypass multilateral mechanisms and deliver aid directly to northern Syria," said its senior Syria analyst, Dareen Khalifa.

Standing in front of his tent in the Maaret Misrin camp, Abed al-Salam fears for the future.

Millions of Syrians will face "a huge catastrophe in front of the eyes of the world", he said.

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/11072020

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Let me refresh memories:

Kurdistan, the land of the Kurds, was divided - everyone with me so far???

After this area of Kurdistan was divided, it became known as Northern Kurdistan (the Turkish occupied side of the divide) and Western Kurdistan (the Syrian occupied side of the divide)

In order to further separate Kurds living under Turkish occupation from those living under Syrian occupation, the Syrian government took control of Kurdish owned villages and land along the Syrian side of the border - still with me???

The Syrian government then proceeded to house Arabs along the border in what is known as the ARAB BELT

At one stage the Syrian government removed all rights for many Kurds living under their occupation, effectively making Kurds non-people. If a person does not exist they cannot legally marry or own any land or business.

Kurds, being a proud race, were not happy with this and produced a great many FAMOUS leaders including the highly respected Ismet Cheriff Vanly and the equally highly respected Dr. Jawad Mella. These two people, along with numerous others, were at the forefront of the struggle for Kurdish independence.

Many THOUSANDS of Kurds from Syrian occupied Western Kurdistan FOUGHT and DIED for an INDEPENDENT Western Kurdistan

Please note the term:

WESTERN KURDISTAN

Shamefully other Kurds have totally removed the words Western Kurdistan from the land and refer to it as:

Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria

Once again the Kurdish identity has been taken from the people and it is a betrayal of all those thousands who died fighting for Western Kurdistan

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WESTERN KURDISTAN

WHICH IS OCCUPIED BY SYRIA
Dr. Jawad Mella

Dedicated to the pioneering activists and
heroes leaders of Western Kurdistan:

Prince Jaladat Baderkhan
Apo Osman Sabri
Rashid Kurd
Jegerkhween
Dr Noraddin Zaza

and all those on the path of freedom for the Kurdish People and
Independence for Kurdistan

Introduction

The subject of this publication is Western Kurdistan and the Kurdish people in that region, and the extermination and discrimination they are subjected to.

It is my duty to introduce this important essay of which all the Kurdish people and their friends everywhere should be aware, not only to bring the ruling Syrian Baath regime to justice for the crimes against the Kurdish people in Western
Kurdistan, but also to put Western Kurdistan under the protection of the international
community and make it a safe haven which is exactly what has happened to the Kurdish
people in Southern Kurdistan since 1991.

It is well known that the area of Western Kurdistan (Syrian Kurdistan) is half the size of
Southern Kurdistan, a third that of Eastern Kurdistan and one tenth that of Northern Kurdistan.

However Western Kurdistan remains a part of Kurdistan and it does not matter if this part is located in the middle of the region, at a peripheral location or anywhere else on the map. Its area is also of no significance.

The important thing is that Western Kurdistan is a part of Kurdistan that we should not forsake or ignore this in any case; for whoever forsakes one part of Kurdistan, will one day forsake the whole of it.

The Kurdistan National Congress gives particular importance to this ideology, including
supporting the Western Kurdistan Association since its establishment in the UK in 1997.

This association’s creation is regarded as a huge step in the right direction, as it was the first organisation for the Kurds of Western Kurdistan that was licensed officially by the
British government, and also the first organisation to carry the name of Kurdistan rather than the word Kurdish as opted for by other organisations representing people from
this region.

The purpose of this distinction is to emphasise the existence of Kurdistan in Syria. Also the establishment of a committee to award a prize - named after the late Apo Osman Sabri- headed by the distinguished Kurdish thinker Dr Jemal Nebez, is another step in the direction of the same banner of struggle and truth lifted by Apo Osman Sabri in
Western Kurdistan since the start of the last century.

Those who deny the existence of a part of Kurdistan inside the borders of the Syrian state make an argument for the fact that some Kurdish families had moved into there from
other parts of Kurdistan.

It is true that some Kurdish families came from Northern and Southern Kurdistan to Syria under certain circumstances and that our Kurdish families in Syria left for Northern or Southern Kurdistan. This happens in all countries everywhere.

Can anyone deny that hundreds of families had moved from Hummus or Hamah to Damascus or vice versa? This kind of displacement does not affect the fact that those families remain Syrians, or to put it another way, that Damascus, Hummus or Hamah don’t stop being a part of Syria.

The same applies to Kurdistan as well.

There are also agents of the Syrian authorities, who distribute such propaganda that there is no Kurdistan in Syria.

Of those we mention Dr. Jawad Mella - Western Kurdistan which is occupied by Syria 6
Munzir Al-Mouseli, previously a Syrian Intelligence officer and a member of “People’s
Council” at the moment, who published a number of books regarding the Kurdish cause.

In his books, he mentions some real facts, accompanied however with a lot of lies. One of the facts he mentions is that there is no Kurdistan in Syria. It is unfortunate that some
establishments and Kurdish organisations claiming to support the Kurdish people, repeat
the allegations of such agents of the Syrian authorities as Al-Mouseli to name but one.

I would like in this introduction to also emphasise the importance of a higher degree of activities for Western Kurdistan and the rights of our Kurdish people there – possibly as many as 4 million or more people - that leads to freedom and independence.

Any effort for this small part of Kurdistan is a national duty.

This increase in activity gains further momentum when one realises that there are so many large conspiracies against this part of Kurdistan.

Full Article:

https://westernkurdistan.org.uk/documen ... anBook.pdf

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Kurdish opposition group protest

A Kurdish opposition group in Western Kurdistan staged protests on Friday demonstrating against rising prices of basic goods and the detention of some of their members. Several people were injured when a fight broke out with rival protesters, according to an official

The Kurdish National Council (ENKS) protests took place in nine towns, with the main one in front of the United Nations office in Qamishli.

“We faced obstacles in many places, including restrictions by the security forces in some areas,” Sulaiman Oso, an ENKS official, told Rudaw English after the protests had ended.

Footage filmed by Rudaw in Qamishli showed a group of people carrying the flag of a group connected to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the image of its leader Abdullah Ocalan pushing through the protests and attacking ENKS protesters with sticks. Security forces intervened, but could not prevent the injury of a number of demonstrators.

Oso said it is not immediately clear how many people were injured.

ENKS was able to hand over a letter of demands to the UN office, he added.

The protests are against a recent increase in fuel and bread prices as well as the detention of several ENKS members in Western Kurdistan. ENKS, which does not recognize the autonomous administration of Rojava, has thorny relations with the ruling Democratic Union Party (PYD). Despite years of talks, the two sides have failed to reach an agreement resolving their issues and sharing power. The PYD dislikes ENKS’ friendly ties with Turkey. Some people disrupting the protest on Friday could be heard calling the ENKS supporters “betrayers.”

Syria as a whole is suffering from an economic crisis, worsened by US sanctions. Western Kurdistan is excluded from the sanctions, but their impact on the region can be clearly noticed.

Link to Article - Video:

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/24092021

The true betrayers of the Kurdish people are those who have REMOVED the name Kurdistan from Western Kurdistan

Western Kurdistan translated into Kurdish is Rojavaya Kurdistanê NOT Rojava - Rojava means west - we NEED the world to realise that the area concerned is WESTERN KURDISTAN part of GREATER KURDISTAN and it is inhabited by KURDS

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Turkish jets and the Ankara-backed Islamist militias on Sunday bombarded different areas in Western Kurdistan

According to the information obtained by BasNews from local sources, the Islamist militias used artillery to bombard Tel Shanan and Dardadara villages near Tel Tamar, in Hassaka province.

The two villages are under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an armed group supported by the US-led Global Coalition to combat the Islamic State (ISIS).

Possible casualties and material damage were not known immediately.

Earlier the day, media reports said Turkish fighter jets had targeted a vehicle near Kobani,, killing three people and wounding four others.

The targeted individuals were said to be members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Kurdish group that is in armed conflict with Turkey for decade

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Turkish-backed groups cut water to Western Kurdistan
Wladimir van Wilgenburg

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Water shortages in parts of Western Kurdistan has increased after the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) in the region built three earth dams, a Dutch peace organization, PAX, said in a new report published on Wednesday

The first dam was built on May 22, south of the village of Tall al Assafir. It was followed on May 27 by a dam 8 kilometers north of the town of As Safih. A third dam was constructed only a few hundred meters north of the first dam in the town of Al Manajeer on June 1.

PAX said that the summer of 2021 was one of the hottest ever recorded in Western Kurdistan due to climate change.

Syria has suffered from low rainfall this year, especially the SDF-held Hasakah province, the country’s breadbasket, AFP reported last month.

Furthermore, dismal wheat harvests are threatening food security in the war-torn country, where 60 percent of people already struggle to buy food, the AFP report said.

“For farmers in and near the Khabur valley, the impact of these shortages was further compounded by the blockage of the river (by SNA-created dams), the Euphrates’ largest tributary and a historically non-seasonal waterway,” the PAX report said.

“The cutting of the river’s flow came at a time of severe drought and high diesel prices, which are preventing many farmers from operating their pumps,” the report added.

“With no irrigation, vast tracts of agricultural land are being left fallow.”

Moreover, Turkish-backed groups have regularly cut water from the Alouk water station, which they also control, to Hasakah, affecting an estimated 500,000 people in Hasakah city and nearby towns and villages.

The Alouk water station is near the border town of Ras al-Ain (Serekaniye), which Turkey and its militant proxies took over in October 2019 during Ankara’s so-called Peace Spring military operation.

Turkey has previously denied it was responsible for cutting off the water supply.

According to PAX, the SNA has disrupted the water flow from Alouk over 20 times.

It also said Turkey reduced the amount of water released from its dams into the Euphrates River at the border. As a result, water levels in Syria have decreased by 70%.

https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/26 ... Syria:-PAX

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Turkey has no approval for attack

While Turkey threatens a new offensive in northeast Syria (Western Kurdistan), the commander-in-chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has said that they were given reassurances by the United States and Russia that permission would not be given to Turkey to attack Western Kurdistan

“Erdogan has always sought the support of international actors before embarking on a military intervention here. He’s made threats and continues to make threats. He insists he will intervene and will continue to insist,” Mazloum Abdi told Al-Monitor journalist Amberin Zaman in an article published on Tuesday.

“In my view, unless Turkey gets the approval of either Russia or the United States, Erdogan cannot take such a step. And as far as I am aware there is no such approval,” added Abdi.

Turkey has been threatening a new offensive against Kurdish forces in Western Kurdistan for several weeks. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in October said he had “no patience” with Kurdish forces in Tal Rifaat, a pocket of territory in the northern Aleppo countryside. Ankara considers the SDF a branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and a threat to its national security.

Abdi added that they were given “assurances” by the United States that they “would not accept” a Turkish attack against Western Kurdistan. “They informed us that during the last meeting between Erdogan and President Joe Biden [on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome] that Erdogan was told that the United States would not accept any attack against us,” he said.

“The Russians also told us that they had not made any deals with Turkey. They did say though that Turkish-backed [Syrian National Army] forces might attack us rather than the Turkish military per se. They actually gave us a date. They were supposed to attack us today [November 5] but nothing happened,” explained Abdi.

Moscow and Washington brokered separate ceasefire agreements to end the 2019 Turkish incursion into Western Kurdistan, the goal of which was to push Kurdish forces back from the Syria-Turkey border around the cities of Sari Kani (Ras al-Ayn) and Gire Spi (Tal Abyad). Turkey is now threatening another offensive.

Locals in Western Kurdistan accused ceasefire guarantors Russia and the United States of staying silent in the face of the Turkish threats. More than a dozen villages have been reportedly emptied and the SDF reported “provocative mobilizations” of Turkish-backed Syrian militias along the frontlines between the two sides on Monday.

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/10112021

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Hundreds abducted, killed last year

Hundreds of people, including security members, were killed and abducted in suspected Turkish attacks targeting Western Kurdistan over the past year, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a recent report displaying the upsurge in offensives in the region.

Over 700 civilians were kidnapped and 134 were injured in Turkish attacks in 2021, the SDF said on Thursday.

One hundred and forty eight SDF members died responding to Turkish attacks and pursuing Islamic State (ISIS) sleeper cells that remain active in the region, the report added.

Ankara often targets Western Kurdistan, killing and injuring civilians and security forces.

Western Kurdistan saw 47 Turkish ground attacks and incursion attempts, as well as 89 drone offensives, according to the SDF.

Fifty-eight villages and three districts were the targets of direct bombardment. Zirgan district has seen an increase of suspected Turkish bombardments recently.

Turkey has not yet commented on the report.

At least one person was injured in a Turkish attack in the area last year, days after a similar attack took the lives of at least three people in Zirgan.

Western Kurdistan’s internal security forces (Asayish) have previously described Turkey’s offensives targeting northern Hasaka as “an attempt to displace the residents.”

Hundreds of families have left Zirgan district as Turkish airstrikes and bombardment spark fear in the residents, a conflict monitor reported at the beginning of the year.

Turkey has conducted three military operations in northern Syria since 2016, two of them against Kurdish fighters who Ankara considers a branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and a threat to its national security. It has been threatening a new offensive against Kurdish forces in Rojava in recent months.

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/07012022

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Reporters Without Borders slams closure

of Rudaw in Western Kurdistan

An organization dedicated to defending press freedom globally denounced on Monday the suspension of Rudaw Media Network in northeast Syria (Western Kurdistan) as it called on authorities to respect media pluralism.

The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES), which is actually Western Kurdistan, on Saturday suspended the network’s ability to work in all areas of the region as it withdrew Rudaw employees’ licenses, claiming that the outlet spreads hate and misinformation.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned the forcible closure of the network, saying the organization “denounces a vague pretext and calls on the authorities to respect media pluralism.”

#Syria: after the Iraqi Kurdish channel @RudawEnglish was forcibly closed by the Kurdish Autonomous Administration on the grounds that it had violated the law on the media, @RSF_inter denounces a vague pretext and calls on the authorities to respect media pluralism.
— RSF in English (@RSF_en) February 7, 2022

The network considers the decision to be political and a violation to the freedom of press.

“Rudaw Media Network considers this a political decision and a crime against freedom of the press in Western Kurdistan. Rudaw Media Network operates very professionally and complies with regulations everywhere. The decision by the Autonomous Administration lacks legal grounds and is coming from thin political and partisan considerations,” it said in a statement following the ban.

Rudaw’s teams have previously repeatedly come under attack in Rojava.

The network’s crew on Wednesday was attacked by unknown assailants in Qamishli while covering the funeral of 12 members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), mortally wounded in the over one week-long Islamic State (ISIS) prison-riot in Hasaka which left 121 SDF fighters, prison guards and civilians dead.

The administration also prevented Rudaw from covering the attempted prison break.

Rudaw office in Qamishli has been attacked six times. The Asayish, the internal security forces of Western Kurdistan, are yet to hold anyone accountable for the attacks on Rudaw’s offices.

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeas ... /070220222

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The work of His Excellency Dr Jawad Mella

Dear readers, this will be dedicated to Dr Jawad Mella's writings, many of his books and articles in Kurdish, English and Arabic language will be published here on this thread

Before many of you were born, Jawad Mella was on the mountains fighting for WESTERN KURDISTAN

I am disgusted that certain political parties have removed the name Western Kurdistan

Rojava means WEST

WESTERN KURDISTAN = ROJAVA KURDISTANI

Thousands of PROUD KURDS died fighting for an Independent Western Kurdistan

Have you NO respect

Out here in the real world - many people have NO IDEA that Rojava is populated by Kurds

In fact many recent articles refer to the inhabitants as ROJAVARIANS not Kurds

As the 100 anniversary of division of Kurdish lands approaches, Kurds should take this as a time for increased UNITY

As Qazi Muhammad said:

For the love of God, come, and stop being each others enemies.

Be as one and have each others' back in the face of an unfair and ruthless enemy

Dr Jawad Mella has spent his entire life fighting physically and intellectually for a

FREE UNITED KURDISTAN

Take back you pride and tell the entire world that you are KURDS

Your country is WESTERN KURDISTAN

Part of the GREAT KURDISH NATION

NEVER allow others to take the name WESTERN KURDISTAN from your country

Follow the link below and learn your history:

https://westernkurdistan.org.uk/documen ... anBook.pdf

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Our people are ready to
sacrifice their lives for their lands

Threatening to occupy more areas in North and East Syria, the Turkish state focuses on the areas of Tal Rifat and Manbij, which represent the key points to entering WESTERN KURDISTAN

Speaking about the latest wave of accelerated attacks on the region, the deputy co-chair of the Executive Council of the Euphrates Region, Nihad Ahmed, stated that Turkey sought to occupy North-East Syria to eliminate its democratic project that brings all components together under one roof.

Ahmed pointed out that the people of the region have the right to liberate their territories that have been invaded by Turkey and allied mercenaries under the sight of the international community.

“Defense is a sacred duty for everyone who rejects injustice and slavery. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - which should be referred the forces of Western Kurdistan - to also have the right to defend themselves,” he noted.

According to Ahmed, Turkey’s attacks are not directed at the areas of the Autonomous Administration alone, as Turkey plans an occupation scheme for new parts of Syrian lands. For this reason, the Damascus government must defend the threatened regions, as well as the guarantor countries, he added.

“The Turkish state sees the fact that nothing is the way it used to be. The people of the region have gained awareness and they are ready to sacrifice their lives to defend their lands,” he stressed.

Warning that a new war would only mean a return to the beginning of the crisis in 2011, Ahmed added, “It is the occupying Turkish state that takes advantage of this, occupies people’s lands and houses in Syria and displaces the local population.”

Ahmed pointed out that Turkey sought to prolong the crisis in Syria to annex a new part of the Syrian lands to its own. “It is high time the Syrians worked towards a solution to the crisis. Lessons should be drawn from this bloody experience that has continued for 11 years now. People should come together and establish unity so that attacks targeting their lands can be prevented and the people who were displaced and forced into migration can turn back home.”

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EU support for Syrian Kurds

Dozens of Kurds held a demonstration in Brussels on Friday, calling on the European Union to intervene in northwest Syria where four Kurds were killed by Turkish-backed fighters

Members of the Ahrar al-Sharqiya armed militia opened gunfire on a Kurdish family celebrating Newroz in Jindires on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding two others. Jindires is located in Afrin in Syria’s northwest corner and historically has a Kurdish majority population.

The attack has been widely condemned by Kurds around the world. On Friday, dozens of Kurds held a protest in front of the European parliament in Brussels, demanding the European Union take action against Turkey and armed groups in Syria.

“Today we have gathered here to protest Turkish invaders in the Afrin region and the massacre in Jindires. We want to take this to the European Union and its member states so that they can pressure Erdogan to completely withdraw his army from Syrian Kurdistan, especially Afrin,” a protester in Brussels told Rudaw’s Alla Shally, referring to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Jindires was seized by Turkey and its allied Syrian militias in 2018 during an operation to drive Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) from the Afrin region. The YPG is the backbone of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Many of Afrin’s Kurdish population have left their villages where they suffered discrimination, looting, and violence at the hands of the Turkish-backed forces who have relocated Syrian families displaced from elsewhere in the country into Afrin.

A main demand of the protesters is for the invaders and those who arrived after the invasion to leave Afrin.

“We don’t want Arabs and Turks… Let them leave our land,” said protester Abdo Hajo.

“We all stand with the family of the martyrs and our Kurdish people. We will all be united. We want Arabs and Erdogan to leave Afrin,” said protester Ilav Haji.

“I call for the expulsion of these mercenaries from Afrin and Jindires. Our people have been living under oppression for five years. When I call them, they cry and say that they can no longer endure it. They are uprising and we in Europe should support them wholeheartedly,” said a female protester.

Thousands of Kurds staged a rare protest in Afrin, in front of the house of the victims in Jindires, demanding the expulsion of Turkey-backed armed groups.

In Brussels there were calls for the United Nations to intervene and for Kurds around the world to take to the streets.

“We call on the United Nations to enter Western Kurdistan. We do not want mercenaries. Viva Kurdistan,” said a protester to his fellow demonstrators.

Another protester, named Siwar, said he is “ready for protests everywhere. We want Turks and Arabs to leave our country. We will continue [protesting].”

Protester Sozdar Mamo called on more Kurds to take to the streets in protest.

“No one can extinguish the fire of Newroz and our Newroz becomes brighter every year,” protester Mustafa Mamo told Rudaw. The myth of Newroz, which falls on the first day of spring, tells a story of victory over oppression. It is an important holiday in the Kurdish year

Protests have also taken place in Paris and Erbil.

The family of the dead has released a statement, calling for the perpetrators to be punished and for the case to be transferred to an international court.

On Friday, over 150 Syrian organisations released a joint statement condemning the murders and demanding international intervention.

They called on the UN to “take all necessary measures to protect the civilians in Afrin and across Syria, as well as pressure Turkey as an occupying power to assume its legal responsibilities in ensuring public order and safety and maintaining law and order.”

Neither Turkey nor US belong in Syria, they are not occupying power, they are ILLEGAL INVADERS and should be removed, as should ALL armed militia

They also said that the UN should “pressure the Turkish government to stop the demographic” changes in Kurdish areas of northern Syria.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement on Wednesday that Ankara should stop supporting Syrian militias “implicated in recurrent or systemic human rights abuses and international humanitarian law violations.”

“As an occupying power and as a backer of the local factions operating in areas under its control in northern Syria, Turkey is obliged to investigate these killings and ensure that those responsible are held accountable,” added HRW.

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[Anthea]

Dear sisters and brothers, my deepest greetings and thanks to all of you

Dears, I beg you to forgive me for my long absence from you. This was due to my health which was not in good condition at all but I have regained a little bit of strength and health, thank God.

The death of my mother, my brothers Ziad, Mazdad, and my dear cousins Ezuddin and Salahuddin. Also the death of my dear friends dr Jamal Nabz and dr Jamal Rashid Ahmed
May Allah have mercy on them and make them dwell in his spacious gardens.

The death of my loved ones had a major impact on my health deterioration. I ask Allah to give me health and strength to deliver my last message on the issue of Kurdistan independence.

Here is the first part of my diary and my struggle for the independence of Kurdistan, my last letter that I completed for you to read carefully and I hope that you will be satisfied, and I am very pleased to know your comments and opinions as well.

After completing all parts of it, I will seek to work on printing it on paper and then translate it into most of the necessary languages and in their introduction Kurdish language for generalization of its benefit locally and globally.

Be safe my brothers and sisters
Jawad Mulla

Here are the links to part one of my diaries and my struggle for Kurdistan's independence

Kurdistan's independence.

https://www.dropbox.com/.../Mella-J-My% ... ies1.pdf...

https://pdfhost.io/v/yMAgMJH.B_ABBAS_HILMI
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