Tag Archives: child soldiers
Kurdish mothers in front of the HDP office: We will not celebrate Eid al-Qurban without our abducted children
Dozens of Kurdish mothers have been protesting in front of the office of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) for about a year now, calling on the party to take the abducted children from the PKK and return them. These Kurdish mothers did not give up their sit-in even in the cold of winter and still […]
The disappearance of a young Kurdish man from Khoy
Ismail Dudkanlu Milan, son of Hussein and Kareh, has never been seen since he was abducted by PJAK gunmen in his village in the Khoy border region. After his parents found out that PJAK had abducted him, they tried to bring him back, but members of the Kandil-based group in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq […]
A call for Marivan human rights activists
Human rights are neither ethnic nor tribal nor specific to a country. There have been and are cases of human rights violations in all societies. But what causes human rights violations in a society to be minimal or ideally zero is the result of the real and conscientious activity of human rights activists in that […]
The Kurdish girl was killed before the age of 18
Manijeh Dindar, the daughter of Fatemeh and Fahim, was born in a deprived village in Maku city, West Azerbaijan province. Her parents did not send her to school after primary school due to the traditional culture of the region and their financial problems. Manijeh, like many girls in the village, worked at home waiting for […]
Controversiality around SDF’s educational programme
This week, the Syrian Democratic Council, which is the political wing of SDF, has announced the new curriculum that will be taught in their occupied areas. Teachers and parents in different Arab-majority areas, like Deir ez-Zor and Raqqah have protested against the curriculum. The self-proclaimed Autonomous Administration has problems introducing its secular education program in […]
YPJ has kidnapped 3 children this week
Even though Human Rights watchdogs closely monitor the recruitment of minors by PKK’s Syrian wing, the YPG/YPJ, the organisation continues to recruit minors on a regular basis, despite efforts by the families to return their underaged children. This week three different families have published their appeal on social media. This is Ronida Dari, the daughter […]
STJ: SDF still recruiting child soldiers
The Geneva-based Human Rights Watchdog called Syrians for Truth and Justice have released a special report documenting cases of recruitment of minors in Syria. Operating in Northeastern Syria, the SDF has not yet shown full commitment to preventing child recruitment, even though, given the blessings of the Autonomous Administration, it had signed an action plan […]
PJAK must answer: Where is Nian Darvishi?
The correspondent of the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW) managed to interview and talk to the family of Nian Darvishi, the daughter of Abdul, born in ۲۰۰۳٫ “Late last summer, my daughter was deceived and kidnapped by members of the group,” Abdul Darvishi, Nian’s father, told the IKHRW. He said that some members of […]
How PJAK kidnapped Shayan Mohammadi
The Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW)had already quoted PKK sources as saying that PJAK and PKK members had died of corona in the mountains. But PJAK blamed their deaths on “difficult natural conditions in the operational areas due to the cold and blizzard.” One of these forces was Iranian. It is unknown now what […]
Jafar Pourang a victim of PJAK
Interview with Jafar Pourang‘s father On Tuesday, March 10, 2020, the PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency reported that “it renewed its agreement with the ideals of the victims of the liberation of Kurdistan killed by Turkish attacks on 29 June 2019.” The news agency wrote that Jafar Purang, with the organizational code of Agir Beritan, was […]