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We were robbed by our Arab neighbours, say Kurds fleeing Isil in Syria
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] The scarves worn by the men plundering the homes of Hassan Khashman and fellow Kurds as they made a desperate escape from invading Isil jihadists concealed their faces but not their identities."These were people we all knew, our neighbours," said Mr Khashman, 40, a farmer, recalling the shocking sight of people he had lived alongside for a lifetime treating his property as fair game while his family fled the ethnically mixed Syrian village of Kanaiyah for their lives. "We saw Arabs going to our home and stealing stuff. They were even stealing our food. Some tried to sell our property in local markets." Similar tales abound among the thousands of Kurds who have left the besieged town of Kobane and surrounding villages for neighbouring Turkey in recent weeks as the region has been overrun by the ruthless and ideologically fervent fighters of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant [Isil]. Compounding the pain of forced evacuation from their ancestral homes is the theft of their possessions ‐ including cars, farm animals and homes ‐ by people they thought they could trust. Posted by: Fred 2014-10-15 |
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