Middle East
Milan , April 6, 2015 – 16:26
” Three hundred Kurds who were traveling in five buses and a minibus from Afrin were seized at a check point in Dana while they were going to Aleppo to receive their pay. ” The news was announced by the spokesman for the Kurdish party Pyd (Democratic Union Party in Europe) Newaf Khalil, and was reported by the Lebanese newspaper in English Daily Star . The Kurds accused of kidnapping the Facing the Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, although the NGO Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (Ondus) does not confirm that those responsible are the Qaedists, active mainly in the province of Idlib. According to local sources could be men of the Army of Islam, another group of jihadist galaxy that controls the town of Dana. Al Nusra Front had played a crucial role in the conquest of the capital of the eponymous province of Idlib, March 28 The Observatory reported that the kidnappers have demanded the release of three men arrested in Afrin, city under Kurdish control.
“Held only adults and Boys, released the women ‘
The spokesman of the Party of the Democratic Union in Europe reported that” armed militiamen stopped vehicles and have let the women, but have retained the men and the boys. ” A Kurdish official has confirmed that “The 300 Kurds seized would all men.” The ambush would be taken in the village of Tuqad, 20 km west of Aleppo, and the hostages would be taken later in the small town of Dana, Idlib province. “
Summary executions
Meanwhile in the Yarmouk refugee camp, on the outskirts of Damascus, there are new episodes brutal. “The Isis has beheaded two Palestinians and has also executed seven more,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The news confirms the concerns for the ferocity of the jihadist group that on April 1, has occupied the field south of the Syrian capital. The Isis occupies 90 percent of the camp of Yarmouk while the rival Palestinian faction, Beit al-Maqdis Aknaf, is confined to a small area in the north-east. In the field the situation is dramatic for 16 thousand Palestinians who could not flee: no electricity, water and heating and food are scarce.
Destroyed church
In the day Easter militiamen Isis completely razed to the ground the church of the Virgin Mary in the Christian village of Syrian Tel Nasri. The building, with its two towers in oriental style with the tip onion, white walls, the turn round covered with red brick, was the symbol of a strong Christian community rooted for almost two millennia in the province of Hasada, on the shore North of the river Khabur. Now it remains only the photo, published dall’Aina, the agency of the Assyrian Christians of Iraq and Syria, denouncing yet another sacrilege accomplished by men of the Caliphate. The village of Tel Nasri, along with another handful of Christian settlements such as Tel Tamar, Tel Hafian, Tel Maghas, had been conquered by ISIS on February 23. The militiamen of Al Baghdadi, from the south bank of the river, had killed twenty men who tried to oppose their advance, were forced to flee about 4 thousand Christians and abducted 373 people, including women and children. To date these have been only 23. Of the others do not know anything anymore, even if they are dead or alive, now forgotten by the international community, despite the insistent appeals of Pope Francis, the last during the Angelus this morning.
April 6, 2015 | 16:26
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