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| Turkey-backed militants cite religion to flatten tombs in Afrin | |
| 2019-01-19 | |
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... -backed Islamist factions in control of Afrin are systematically destroying cemeteries in the Kurdish enclave. A resident of Afrin who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation said that on Wednesday bully boyz of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) removed tombstones from the graves in Edama village in the district. The tombs were also leveled. The bully boyz told the residents that their reason was religious and the tombs were too high above ground and needed to be flattened. Last week, Turkey’s proxies also went to Meydanke village in the Shera district of Afrin under the same religious pretext, doing the same thing to that cemetery. In December, more than 500 tombs in Sinare village in the Shera district were destroyed by the bad boys. Their reasoning reportedly was to enlarging the roads. In Islam, there are rules for tombs, but certain Salafist fatwas decree for tombs to be flat with the land and that it is irreligious to have them adorned or be above ground. The groups operating in Afrin took over the city with Afrin, a Kurdish majority district known for its olive trees, was stable and safe prior to the invasion, hosting numerous refugees from the rest of Syria. It was a canton of the Northern Syrian Federation, administered by TEV-DEM. Yezidis, Assyrians, Syriacs, some Arabs and Turkmen participated in the defense of Afrin under the banner of the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG). Since the takeover, half of the population has been living in camps. Their houses have been occupied and olive groves and factories taken over. Kurdish symbols ‐ like the statue of Kaveh the Blacksmith ‐ have been destroyed, and streets and other places have been changed to The groups have committed human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... violations and engaged in looting. They have regularly destroyed cemeteries, each time citing different reasons. Claiming violation of religion is the latest trend. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Porkoranimals. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2019-01-19 21:20 |
| #2 Life first. The other two are moot after that |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-01-19 05:47 |
| #1 At this point does anyone want to offer a counter argument that Erdogan would do a Kurdish genocide, right down to the erasing of a culture, and ending with death camps and gas chambers, if he could get away with it? Like Hitler, someone needs to relieve Erdogan of his position, power, or life, if it comes to that. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Unairt7733 2019-01-19 01:07 |