afrinpost – Exclusive
Under the slogan “Stop pro-coalition preachers from Islamizing Yezidis of Afrin”, 13 Kurdish human rights organization and cultural institutions issued a joint statement about the campaigns of intimidation, expiation, forced Islamization and violations of all kinds committed against Yazidis in Afrin, to the official international and Islamic organizations to intervene.
“Yazidis in Afrin are subjected to various types of violations because of their religious as well as ethnicity, including murder, genocide, torture, arrest, terrorism, displacement, demographic change, encroachment on land, money and honor, sexual slavery of women, demeaning religious rites, and demolishing Shrines, temples and domes, coercion to change religion, imposing Islamic law approaches on children, adolescents and youth, and men and women being forced and subjugated to pray in mosques by armed radical Islamist groups, the military wing of the so-called “Syrian National Coalition”, created by Turkey.” The statement, of which afrinpost received a copy, stated.
“Turkish occupation authorities unleashed their frenzied ISIS operatives on Yazidis for deliberately subjecting them to oppression and extermination, and to destroy them, by transforming the Yazidi villages in Afrin into settlements for the displaced of Ghouta and Idlib, and the families of the leaders of the coalition and armed groups.” The statement indicated.
“Turkish occupation authorities, in collusion with their puppet “coalition”, continue to push their Salafist lawsuits to harass the Yazidis remained attached to their land, the soil of their village and its olives, while advocacy bodies obligate them to incite and intimidate “forced Islamization”, and to abandon and disengage from their cultural and civilizational privacy” The statement added.
While the statement called upon the international community, the United Nations and all its associated bodies, especially the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, international and European human rights bodies, civil society organizations in the free world, as well as Arab countries, the Al-Azhar Foundation, and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to respond to its human and moral pre-legal responsibilities and obligations, and to move immediately to stop the genocide and Islamization in ISIS-style imposed by the Turkish state, and the coalition jihadists preachers on the Syrian Yezidis in Afrin and its villages.
Signatories:
1- Kania Spi Cultural and Social Association
2- The Kurdish Legal Authority
3- Ezdina
4- Justice Center for Human Rights
5- The Union of Yazidis of Syria
6- Human Rights Organization – Afrin, Syria
7- The Kurdish Society Association in Stuttgart
8- The German Kurdish Forum
9- The Syrian Yazidi Gathering
10- The Syrian Supreme Yazidi Council
11- The Free Yezidi Movement
12- The Yazidi cultural and social grouping – Germany
13- A group of Syrian Yazidi jurists
