Konflikten i Syrien

...0(!) döda kurder, kanske på sin höjd någon skadad, och så påstår de att 1000 ISIS dödats...

“I have been to the Kurdistan Region, I have been to Kirkuk and Shingal and I have seen the refugee camps where I talked to many people,“ German journalist Enno Lenze told Rudaw. “I can’t understand any of the accusations against the Peshmerga. But what I do understand is that sometimes just half of the truth is being told,“ he added.

Lenze, who will visit Kurdistan again in the next week, understands the destruction of some buildings as part of security measures to prevent harm to the population:

“I know that some abandoned buildings are being blown up by the Peshmerga. But these houses — Kurdish and Arab — are highly dangerous for the population due to booby-trapping by ISIS,” he said.

The Deutschlandfunk report questioned German policy toward the Kurds: Berlin has been in the vanguard of countries directly arming the Kurdistan Region against ISIS. In this, the Germans have broken ranks with the United States, which leads the coalition against ISIS but insists on arms deliveries to the Kurds only through the tattered central government in Baghdad.

In its report on the Kurds, Deutschlandfunk asked: “Can one really trust them?”

The Winograd Commission devoted a special chapter to the battle of Bint Jbeil and especially to the deadly clash on July 26.[78] The commission concluded that what was described as a "division-sized battle" was in reality no more than a "series of limited engagements between IDF forces and Hizbullah fighters on the eastern edge, and to some extent on the western edge of the town."[79] According to the report the failure capture Bint Jbeil became "a symbol of the unsuccessful action of the Israel Defense Forces throughout the fighting."

On 30 April 2007 the Commission released its preliminary report, harshly criticizing key decision-makers. At the same time, it has been praised as testimony to the fortitude of Israel's democracy and ability to self-criticize,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] impressing even Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

“I have been to the Kurdistan Region, I have been to Kirkuk and Shingal and I have seen the refugee camps where I talked to many people,“ German journalist Enno Lenze told Rudaw. “I can’t understand any of the accusations against the Peshmerga. But what I do understand is that sometimes just half of the truth is being told,“

“I know that some abandoned buildings are being blown up by the Peshmerga. But these houses — Kurdish and Arab — are highly dangerous for the population due to booby-trapping by ISIS,”

“Mr. Thörner writes his article on the Peshmerga and the Kurds in a rabble-rousing manner, which reminds one of already bygone times in Germany,“ Martsch said.

“Mr. Thörner has no idea of the history and the reality of that particular region. If he wants to talk about ethnic cleansings around Kirkuk, he should mention the ethnic cleansings against the Kurds in that region, because that would be the real truth.”

On Wednesday, German news broadcaster Deutschlandfunk published an article on its website denouncing the Kurdistan Region’s elected parties and the Peshmerga. Comparing the Kurds to the Islamic State (ISIS) zealots, which the Peshmerga have been fighting with world support, the article accused the Kurds of “ethnic cleansing (of Arabs), black sites (secret prisons), torture” and much worse.

Author Marc Thörner blames the Kurdish army for the destruction of Arab homes in the liberated areas of Kurdistan.

Turkey’s state Andalou Agency reports that Turkmen leaders are concerned that Kurdish victories in the region will result in their people being forced to move elsewhere, following claims that Kurdish soldiers retaking villages from ISIS in western Syria had forced Arab and Turkmen populations out of their homes. “They forced us from our village and said to us ‘this is Rojava’… ‘Go to the al Badiya desert, go to Tadmur, where you belong,’” said one Arab Tal Abyad villager of the Kurdish forces upon his arrival in the town following the Kurds’ defeat of ISIS. Tadmur is a region currently controlled by the Islamic State; Rojava is the Kurdish name of Syrian Kurdistan.

“Turkmen fighting groups in Syria have taken the decision to offer greater support to each other and work to create a Turkmen army if conditions permit,” Syrian Turkmen Assembly chief Abdel Rahman Mustafa told state media. The military reaction, the Turkmen Assembly claims, is necessary in the face of the “danger of the YPG and the acts of sectarian cleansing it is carrying out, beginning with the expulsion of 200 Turkmen settlements in [the] Tel Abyad [area].” This third militia would presumably also work against the Islamic State.