BALADI NEWS
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor expressed deep concern over the Syrian Democratic Forces' (SDF) reported abduction of dozens of orphaned children and hundreds of youths from refugee camps in north-eastern Syria, isolating them in camps for recruitment, which amounts to a war crime.
The SDF, supported by the International Coalition, have recently begun a massive campaign to arrest Arab youths in the Syrian Jazira of eastern Euphrates, taking them to forced recruitment camps in eastern Syria, including Tel Baidar, Tel Adas, and Fouj al-Hasakah camps.
The SDF abducted about 200 children a few days ago from al-Houl camp, southeast of al-Hasakah, and placed them in one of its camps.
According to relief sources, most of the children are between the ages of 13 to 16, including orphans and non-Syrians.
The abduction of these children coincided with SDF's launch of a campaign of large-scale arrests targeting Arab youths in the cities of Qamishli, Hasaka, Raqqa, and Deir Ezzor, forcing them to take part in the organization's so-called "Self-Defense Forces".
According to local reports, the so-called military police and the Asayish forces, the security arms of SDF, arrested hundreds of young people of the Arab tribes this week at two checkpoints, Al-Numatli and Alaya, east of the city of Qamishli, and at the checkpoints of Sabbagh and Al-Sarafis as well as at Al-Quds park, Marshou, al-Kahrabah and al-Nashwa roundabouts in al-Hasaka.
The SDF carried out similar arrests of Arab youths at the checkpoints of al-Janoubi, al-Saomaa, al-Petrol al-Sharqi, and al-Kaziayyh al-Shamalyyah in the town of Tal Hamisin the countryside of al-Hasaka.
A large number of youths targeted by the forced recruitment campaign have fled their villages under the control of the SDF, and took refuge in neighborhoods under the control of the Syrian regime army in al-Hasaka and Qamishli.
A report prepared by the Euro-Med at the end of July revealed that SDF is committing war crimes against humanity and against thousands of Syrians using the cover given to them by the International Coalition to fight the Islamic State.
Source: Scoop News.