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

The UN accuse SNA of:

"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

"Civilians 'primarily of Kurdish origin' beaten, tortured, denied food or water, and interrogated about their fath and ethnicity"

"Prevalent and recurrent" hostage-taking and torture for extortion and to punish dissenters

Women tortured in presence of Turkish officers

Mass rape, abduction, forced marriage, 'climate of fear'

Gang-rape of a minor as method of torture

30 women raped in Turkish-occupied Tel Abyad in one month

Mass detention of Kurdish and Yezidi women in unknown black sites

Yezidi women pressured to convert to Islam

"'Systematic' and 'coordinated' looting and property appropriation

"Coercing primarily-Kurdish residents to flee through threats, extortion, murder, abduction, torture, detention"

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:

Poor conditions & lack of legal recourse for ISIS-linked individuals, especially in Hol Camp

8 instances of unlawful detention, including 4 conducted alongside US security services

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

"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/

We've been speaking to world press to provide further info and analysis on the UN'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