Category: War Crimes

Maxmur Refugee Camp under embargo for two months

September 15, 2019September 18, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

On July 17, the South Kurdistan official of the Turkish secret service (MIT) was assassinated in a restaurant in the city of Hewler (Erbil). The security forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) then closed all ways in and out of the Maxmur Camp, which is now surrounded and under a strict embargo. While members of the democracy and freedom movement were arrested and tortured, the arrests were carried out by KDP security forces together with representatives of the Turkish intelligence service MIT.

Iraq, News, War Crimes

NRLS: ISIS’s violations against women and children

August 8, 2019August 8, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

The culture of justifying physical and spiritual murder in the name of faith and religion is nothing but an anomaly that expresses a perverse criminal mentality about the general behavior and morality of human societies. Whatever its motives and justifications, the violation of the right to life and encroachment upon these rights is outside of the realm of humanity itself, and the infringement on the life of dozens of people can only be interpreted as barbaric behavior far from human morals and values. Read more in PDF

Children, Reports, War Crimes, Women

Three thousand Yazidi women and children rescued from ISIS

August 3, 2019August 4, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

Three thousand out of the 6,417 Yazidi women and children abducted from Shengal by ISIS have been rescued from the gangs under the lead of YPJ fighters.

Iraq, News, War Crimes, Women

3 August: Call for an International Day of Action against Feminicide

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

Let’s make August 3rd the International Day of Struggleagainst Feminicide through our joint organization!

On August 3rd 2019 is the fifth anniversary of the genocidal attack by the so-called Islamic State(IS) on Êzidi (Yazidi) Kurds in the Northern Iraqi city of Sinjar. Starting on August 3, 2014 the attacksand massacres caused a humanitarian catastrophe but importantly had the genocidal objective oferadicating the whole Êzidi community. Women were systematically targeted within this genocide andtherefore it also constitutes a feminicide.

News, War Crimes, Women

AHR: Afrin is a scene of war crimes

July 2, 2019July 10, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève 677 Comments

The Afrin Human Rights Organization has set itself the task of documenting the war crimes committed by the occupiers in the region. The list of crimes of the last two months is long.

Reports, Syria, War Crimes

Iraqi President Salih sent draft bill on genocide against Yazidis

April 10, 2019July 10, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève 693 Comments

In 2014 Sinjar, home to Yazidi ethno-religious minority, was the site of what the United Nations called an ISIS-led genocidal campaign.

Iraq, News, War Crimes

Yazidis: Attacks for cultural genocide

November 26, 2018July 10, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève 1,330 Comments

Yazidi society has been subjected to many genocidal attacks and genocides throughout history. The Yazidis were massacred by ISIS gangs most recently, and are now under attack from the invading Turkish state and their allied gangs in Afrin.

News, Syria, War Crimes

181 unidentified bodies in Malatya

November 12, 2018July 10, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

There are a total of 181 bodies who have been buried in the cemetery of the nameless in Malatya after being held in the Malatya Forensic Medicine Institution, which is one of the centers that bodies of persons who lose their lives in clashes in Kurdistan are taken to.

News, Turkey, War Crimes