We helped @UN speak to civilians kidnapped and tortured by Turkish-controlled & #39;SNA& #39; militias for their new report.

The UN accuse SNA of:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">"Onslaught of violations" against civilians, "war crimes" of "hostage-taking, cruel treatment, torture, and rape."
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=26237&LangID=E">https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodi...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">"Civilians & #39;primarily of Kurdish origin& #39; beaten, tortured, denied food or water, and interrogated about their fath and ethnicity"

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">"Prevalent and recurrent" hostage-taking and torture for extortion and to punish dissenters

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">Women tortured in presence of Turkish officers

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">Mass rape, abduction, forced marriage, & #39;climate of fear& #39;

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">Gang-rape of a minor as method of torture

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">30 women raped in Turkish-occupied Tel Abyad in one month

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">Mass detention of Kurdish and Yezidi women in unknown black sites

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">Yezidi women pressured to convert to Islam

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">"& #39;Systematic& #39; and & #39;coordinated& #39; looting and property appropriation

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">"Coercing primarily-Kurdish residents to flee through threats, extortion, murder, abduction, torture, detention"

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">Desecration of graveyards & religious sites, threatening "precarious" Yezidi minority

The report also condemns poor security situation, "barrage of IEDs and shelling" in Turkish-held areas and child recruitment by SNA.

Turkey may be culpable for war crimes witnessed and co-ordinated by its forces including "looting, torture... unlawful deportation," @UN conclude.

@UN also criticizes SDF for:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">Poor conditions & lack of legal recourse for ISIS-linked individuals, especially in Hol Camp

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">8 instances of unlawful detention, including 4 conducted alongside US security services

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">2 instances of torture

1500 locals have left Hol in an ongoing release program, while international states must repatriate their own citizens, UN find.

SDF are also criticized for 8 instances of child recruitment, though UN praises SDF removal of 69 children from its ranks: https://twitter.com/RojavaIC/status/1305834902361911296">https://twitter.com/RojavaIC/...

"If it was up to me I would kill every Kurd from 1 to 80..."

Our summary of the damning new @UN report, accusing Turkish-backed forces of torture, rape, mass ethnic displacement of Kurds and other war crimes: https://rojavainformationcenter.com/2020/09/summary-un-report-on-war-crimes-atrocities-committed-by-turkish-and-other-forces-in-syria/">https://rojavainformationcenter.com/2020/09/s...

We& #39;ve been speaking to world press to provide further info and analysis on the UN& #39;s findings of mass atrocities committed by Turkish-controlled forces, as well as connecting them with Kurdish civilians forcibly displaced by Turkey.

here on @franceinter: https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/le-journal-de-7h30">https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions...