Tag Archives: child soldiers
The (forced) recruitment of four underaged boys in Ney village, Mariwan, Iranian Kurdistan
Reports have stated that four underaged boys, one of them with a mental disability, from Ney village, in Mariwan, Iranian Kurdistan have been deceived into joining ‘Party for a Free Life Kurdistan’ or PJAK. After spending two days and nights in a hiding place near the village, the boys were sent to the Asos mountain […]
PJAK must answer; where are both Jamal and Murad Arash?
According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW) report, the deception, abduction and transfer of Iranian Kurdish underages to the camps of the PJAK terrorist group is a bitter story that dates years ago while it does not seem to end. The recruitment of the underages, their deception, and finally the fact that even […]
PKK, FIRAT News Agency and Child Soldiers; clumsy lie and passive disclaim
As the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW) reports, terrorist groups have always recruited children as soldiers to compensate their lack of experienced armed men. ISIS and al-Qaeda in the Middle East and Africa and other armed and mafia groups in East Asia and Europe, all recruit the children for suicide attacks, carrying the weapons […]
Why doesn’t PJAK deliver Kamrani’s corpse to his family?
According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, the PKK-affiliated Euphrates News Agency published a report on August 31, 2018, in which PKK forces were killed in a bombing raid by the Turkish army on August 2, 2018, on the outskirts of Shirnak, South-East Turkey. One of the Iranian forces killed in this attack was […]
PKK released its 3 child soldiers
Recruiting child soldiers in the PKK dates back since its establishment, and photographs of Abdullah Ocalan’s presence in Lebanon’s Baqa Valley also show armed children with whom he met as a member of the PKK. In recent years, human rights organizations have pointed to and emphasizded on the issue of human rights abuses by the […]
“Child soldiers are cheaper to recruit”
In an exclusive interview with Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW), Adam Ismail Ahmad, a Political Scientist and Founder of Connect African Development Project Initiative (CADPI2020), an NGO, Working On achieving Five thematic areas OF SDGs 4,3,1and 6 thus: Quality Education,Good Health,No Poverty and Clean Water and sanitation, examined the situation of child soldiers in […]
Medya Nasreddin in Qamishlo: PKK must return the abducted children
Medya Nasreddin, co-chair of the Office for the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict, said the kidnapped children for the armed forces must be returned, otherwise we will set up a mechanism to prosecute the perpetrators of the abduction. The office held a press conference at the headquarters of the Social Affairs Department of the […]
Songul Altuntash: PKK has eradicated Kurdish youth
Songul Altuntash, mother of a Kurdish soldier abducted by the PKK is in front of the office of the HDP in Diyarbakir, she started angrily protests and addressed one of the HDP officials. “Your organization has left no youth in Diyarbakir. They are either in prison or buried,” she said locally. The Kurdish mother says […]
Bahar Kochak: PKK kidnapped my son and did not even let me talk to him
In an interview, Mrs. Bahar Kochak, the mother of a Yazidi child soldier, said that the PKK kidnaps Yazidi children and takes them to Qandil to recruit as fighters, and then sends them to war zones in Turkey and Syria. “Not only am I not allowed to see my son, they do not even allowed […]
Mahin Paravi should not have been killed
Mahin Paravi was the daughter of Omar and Tabasi from a village in Urmia, Iran. This Kurdish teenage girl, like dozens of other Kurdish children and teenagers, is the prey of the PKK branch in the Kurdish regions of Iran namely PJAK. This anti-Kurdish group, which has committed all kinds of crimes against the Kurds […]