The report, Banished and Dispossessed: Forced Displacement and Deliberate Destruction in Northern Iraq, is based on field investigation in 13 villages and towns and testimony gathered from more than 100 eyewitnesses and victims of forced displacement. It is corroborated by satellite imagery revealing evidence of widespread destruction carried out by Peshmerga forces, or in some cases Yezidi militias and Kurdish armed groups from Syria and Turkey operating in coordination with the Peshmerga.
“KRG forces appear to be spearheading a concerted campaign to forcibly displace Arab communities by destroying entire villages in areas they have recaptured from IS in northern Iraq. The forced displacement of civilians and the deliberate destruction of homes and property without military justification, may amount to war crimes,” said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s Senior Crisis Response Advisor, who carried out the field research in northern Iraq.
“Tens of thousands of Arab civilians who were forced to flee their homes because of fighting are now struggling to survive in makeshift camps in desperate conditions. Many have lost their livelihoods and all their possessions and with their homes destroyed, they have nothing to return to. By barring the displaced from returning to their villages and destroying their homes KRG forces are further exacerbating their suffering,” said Rovera.
Banished and Dispossessed: Forced Displacement and Deliberate Destruction in Northern Iraq | Amnesty International USA
This is totally what the Is wants, Kurds using The IS for gaining more lands by cleansing area of non-Kurds; the IS using Kurds to spread the hatred among Arabs.
At the same time USA claims to bring peace with this policy.
I see what your reference says...but I don't see where ISIS is in any way supportive of the Kurds - if you'll remember, there's been several battles between ISIS and the Kurds. They are quite literally at war with each other.
I understand the old saying of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", but just because the Kurds may be doing something to the local Arabs (right or wrong - no attempt to judge here) does not mean that ISIS is in any way allied with the Kurds or supportive of what they're doing.
And it's Gordian knots like this that should show every American paying attention why it's not a good idea for America to get wrapped up in the local conflicts. Obama made precisely the right call by not getting us involved with ground troops against ISIS or in the meltdown of Syria. Just because there's a conflict going on in an important area of the world does not mean that sending in American troops is the right thing to do.
Every faction involved has some sort of "human rights" violations.
Nothing new.
Meh, at this point I no longer care. If Kurds lived in Kurdish majority areas, shiites in shia majority areas and sunnis in sunni majority areas, people would be blowing each other up and beheading opposing clerics already a lot less. Diversity, even within Islam itself, doesn't work.
By the way, about the "supported by the USA" in the thread title: the US supports the Kurds as little as possible and only when it suits them if ISIS becomes too much of a problem. The US is frequently stabbing the Kurds in the back and supports Turkey over the Kurds. Every. Single. Time.At the same time USA claims to bring peace with this policy.
By the way, about the "supported by the USA" in the thread title: the US supports the Kurds as little as possible and only when it suits them if ISIS becomes too much of a problem. The US is frequenly stabbing the Kurds in the back and supports Turkey over the Kurds. Every. Single. Time.
It's against rules in the breaking news forum I believe to use thread titles different from / not supported by the source article. I suggest you stay out of trouble.
By the way, about the "supported by the USA" in the thread title: the US supports the Kurds as little as possible and only when it suits them if ISIS becomes too much of a problem. The US is frequently stabbing the Kurds in the back and supports Turkey over the Kurds. Every. Single. Time.
It's also against rules in the breaking news forum I believe to use thread titles different from / not supported by the source article. I suggest you stay out of trouble.
KRG delegation asks US for economic, military, humanitarian support
Banished and Dispossessed: Forced Displacement and Deliberate Destruction in Northern Iraq | Amnesty International USA
This is totally what the Is wants, Kurds using The IS for gaining more lands by cleansing area of non-Kurds; the IS using Kurds to spread the hatred among Arabs.
At the same time USA claims to bring peace with this policy.
Hasn't happened, isn't happening and won't happen. Ever.the USA should do whatever it takes to help them secure a safe, stable and independent state.
A segregated middle east run by brutal dictators is more secure and stable. Sad but true.
At the same time USA claims to bring peace with this policy.
A "segregated middle east run by brutal dictators" is what brought us the salafi philosophies of Muhammad Iqbal, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, and Sayyid Qutb, the Muslim Brotherhood, Wahhabism, the Taliban, Islamist pan-nationalism, and global Islamic terrorism.
The problem with bottling people up, subjugating, and brutalizing them is that the hate and anger that foments is going to squirt out somewhere, and the puppet dictators we prop up aren't going to fall on their swords.
So they point their fingers, and prop up religious ideologies that point their fingers, at the White Satan who is ultimately (though not directly) responsible for the brutal dictatorialism.
Then we get people rolled off passenger liners in to the sea, planes blown up in the sky or crashed in to buildings, sociopaths with visions of reestablishing the caliphate, and all the rest.
And there's nothing we can really do about that because, as we should well know, war on metaphors just doesn't work.
Turkey should have been kicked out of NATO a long time ago.
Actually, what brought all these things is the culture that produces them, and those cultures are based upon various interpretations of Islam.
There is no real possibility for any sort of functioning democracy since the people are too backward to embrace it much less understand it.
There are reasons other than that incident for wanting Turkey out of NATO. Why did you bring up that incident even?Really? I thuoght their shooting down the Russian jet to be absolutely ****ing hilarious.
If it helps the Kurdish people, the USA should do whatever it takes to help them secure a safe, stable and independent state.
Without judging the war crimes of Kurds, or judging USA support for the same Kurds; saying The IS is the only trouble maker in the region is like saying Mr.Maliki's policy of discriminating Sunni Arabs with support of USA does not have anything to do with the born of The IS.
Obama did hand over Iraq to Iran in a silver plate, now does it again in Syria, today Iran starts to challenge with Arab States, so how do you explain that?
Obama is worse than Bush, in time the bigger problems will be waiting for the new president of USA, thanks to Obama.
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