{"id":56829,"date":"2021-03-31T06:46:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T06:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=56829"},"modified":"2021-03-31T06:46:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T06:46:07","slug":"us-state-dept-turkey-may-be-criminally-responsible-for-syria-human-rights-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/56829\/","title":{"rendered":"US State Dept: Turkey may be criminally responsible for Syria human rights abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 <\/strong>On Tuesday, the US Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor published their 2020 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Syria, and elaborated on human rights abuses carried out by Turkish-backed armed groups in northern Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report stated that these groups backed by Turkey (which are referred to as TSOs in the report) committed grave violations of human rights, specifically targeting Kurdish and Yezidi civilians, and which included \u201carbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance of civilians, torture, sexual violence, forced evacuations from homes, looting and seizure of private property, transfer of detained civilians across the border into Turkey, the cutting of water to civilian populations, recruitment of child soldiers, and the looting and desecration of religious shrines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to this, the report also singled out Turkish forces themselves, and quoted eyewitnesses and local human rights monitors who reported that \u201can attack carried out by Turkish forces or TSOs on October 16 struck a rural area killing a young boy and injuring others in Ain Issa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report referenced the UN Commission of Inquiry for Syria (COI), which documented the illegal transfer of Syrians detained by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) to Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This collaboration between the Turkish government and the SNA may \u201centail criminal responsibility for [Turkish] commanders who knew or should have known about the crimes, or failed to take all necessary and reasonable measures to prevent or repress their commission,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The COI was also quoted within the report as having documented torture and killing within the formerly Kurdish-majority Afrin region, which was invaded and occupied by Turkish forces in 2018, as well as the area occupied by Turkish and Turkish-backed forces under Operation Peace Spring in Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad, which was invaded in the fall of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In these regions, the COI documented \u201chostage-taking, cruel treatment, ill-treatment and torture,\u201d as well as the torture and rape of minors detained by Turkish-backed groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several human rights monitors and the COI reported that in Sere Kaniye, Turkish non-governmental organizations (NGOs) had converted properties stolen from Kurdish civilians by Turkish-backed groups into religious centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report specifically mentioned that the SNA \u201carrested, detained, tortured, killed, and otherwise abused numerous Kurdish activists and individuals\u201d in Afrin and Sere Kaniye, which was described as \u201ca consistent, discernible pattern of abuses\u2026against Kurdish residents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report also documented human rights violations committed by the Syrian regime and Russian forces supporting them, which included airstrikes which destroyed vital civilian infrastructure and \u201cmassacres; indiscriminate killings; kidnapping of civilians; extreme physical abuse, including sexual violence; and unlawful detentions\u201d committed by the regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The full report can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reports\/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices\/syria\/\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Prepared by Lucas Chapman<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 On Tuesday, the US Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor published their 2020 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Syria, and elaborated on human rights abuses carried out by Turkish-backed armed groups in northern Syria. 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