Fighting between the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has picked up around Aleppo over the past several days, and are now reportedly discussing a ceasefire after the FSA attacked several Kurdish neighborhoods and kidnapped over 100 Kurds.
The PKK has attacked several FSA military bases over the weekend, which they say is retaliation for the attacks and the kidnappings, a move which threatens to bring Syria’s Kurdish minority into the growing civil war.
Among those captured in the FSA raids was a Kurdish man named Khaled Bahjat Hamdu, a 37 year old man from the attacked village of Hayan. According to rebel-linked Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Hamdu has “died from wounds caused by torture” while in custody.
Syria’s significant Kurdish minority lives mostly along the Turkish and Iraqi borders, and many of them also live in enclaves around the major city of Aleppo. Though the Kurds have tried to stay out of the Syrian Civil War for the most part, several rebel factions have questioned where their loyalties lie, particularly as the PKK is in open warfare with Turkey, which is backing the FSA.
Ooooo….
So according to Ditz of AW.C, the PKK is now officially fighting on behalf of the Assad regime…as "reported" by the lame-stream propaganda machine pushing "intervention"… Wow…
What I read from the linked "CNN" article was the following:
"The PYD says it represents Syria's long-oppressed ethnic Kurdish minority…(propaganda editorializing inserted)…
A PYD activist who asked only to be named Abu Mohammed for security reasons told CNN that "the Free Syrian Army opened fire on a demonstration by the people who were demanding that the FSA leave their Kurdish majority neighborhood."
Abu Mohammed sent CNN a link to a video distributed by "Ronahi TV," a representative of the PYD. Purportedly filmed in the Aleppo neighborhood of Ashrafiya on Saturday, it showed hundreds of Kurdish demonstrators chanting in Kurdish, "long live our fighters" and "Kurdish unity." Some of the men were armed with shotguns, and some activists also wore the red, yellow and green of the PYD and chanted "Apo," the nickname of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is imprisoned on an island in Turkey.
At one point in the video, gunfire rings out and demonstrators run for cover. The video later showed several wounded men being brought to hospital. It was not clear who injured them.
Another member of the PYD, from the Syrian town of Afrin, who asked not to be named for security reasons, also accused FSA rebels of breaking a peace agreement with the Kurdish militia."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/world/meast/syria-k…
Is the PYD the same exact thing as the PKK? If so, why is there a difference in the acronym? Would there be an "interest" by the propaganda machine in favor of "intervention" to incorporate the PKK's involvement, on the Assad regime's side, in all of this? I will leave this up to people who 'think' they know what they're talking about…
So…the "Rebels" are attacking "peaceful protesters" now… I didn't see that mentioned here either…
Interesting…
Please Ditz!
What´s the point of having this website and your column in particular if you keep parroting the war propaganda of CNN & Co? There are plenty of alternative and more accurate sources available for you to keep at least a minimum of balance. Well, if the intention is to NOT support either side, that is…