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Iran recruited thousands of Afghan refugees to fight in Syria: HRW
2016-01-30
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Thousands of Afghan refugees have been recruited by Iran's Revolutionary Guards to fight alongside forces loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
in Syria, it has been reported.

According to reports, some of the refugees have been deployed to Syria after they were recruited through coercion.

Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at the New York-based Human Rights Watch
... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge....
(HRW), said "Iran has not just offered Afghan refugees and migrants incentives to fight in Syria, but several said they were threatened with deportation back to Afghanistan unless they did."

He said some of the Afghan migrants were forced to flee Iran for Europe after facing the bleak choice from the Iranian authorities.

The relatives of a number of the Afghan migrants deployed to fight in Syria have been interviewed with six of the twelve respondents saying Iranian forces had trained them or their relatives in military camps near Tehran and Shiraz in 2015.

Two of the six had joined voluntarily, while the other four said they or their relatives had been coerced or forced to fight.

This comes as earlier estimates revealed at least 3,500 Afghan migrants are fighting in Syria to support the forces loyal to Bashir al-Assad.

Relatives of a number of those killed while fighting for the Syrian regime have said the Afghan nationals are also lured by the month salary of $700 and Iranian residency permit.

Posted by:Fred

#2  Competing with the Saudis for Yemen hires? This could drive prices up. How about opening offices in Munich, Berlin and Bonn. I hear they have a lot of appropriate aged males killing time rousting the local frauleins.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-01-30 13:45  

#1  
Posted by: Chereck Glusomp3539   2016-01-30 08:19  

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