Videos of Syrian Militia Abusing Kurdish Fighter’s Corpse Stir Outrage
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Videos of Syrian Militia Abusing Kurdish Fighter’s Corpse Stir Outrage
Some Turkish commentators praised the events depicted in the video,
and this post was typical of many on social media: "If you were men, you would not give weapons to women and put them on the front lines." Many Kurdish women saw the conduct shown in the video as expressing hatred for the role women play in the Kurdish militias, where women and men have separate units but fight together.
Another called her a "female pig." Another man stood on her naked breast as someone said, "She’s beautiful, man." Those are some of
the low points of two new videos of what appear to be Turkish-backed fighters abusing the mutilated body of a Kurdish fighter.
The head of the rights group, Rami Abdul Rahman, said on Monday
that he had obtained the videos from one of the fighters pictured in them, who identified the group as part of the Free Syrian Army.
"The Turkish state is the world’s sponsor of terrorism." The comment on the videos
that most incensed Kurds in Syria, judging from posts on Kurdish Facebook and Twitter accounts, was "She’s beautiful, man." Her body at that point was partly naked, and her exposed breasts appeared to have been mutilated.
The newspaper dismissed claims that the members of the Free Syrian Army tortured Ms. Kobani as "propaganda." The spokesman
for the main Kurdish militia in the region, Birosk Hasakah, disputed that Ms. Kobani was a suicide attacker.
Berivan Hesen said that They want to break the women, they don’t want them to be free,
Some Turkish commentators praised the events depicted in the video,
and this post was typical of many on social media: "If you were men, you would not give weapons to women and put them on the front lines." Many Kurdish women saw the conduct shown in the video as expressing hatred for the role women play in the Kurdish militias, where women and men have separate units but fight together.
Another called her a "female pig." Another man stood on her naked breast as someone said, "She’s beautiful, man." Those are some of
the low points of two new videos of what appear to be Turkish-backed fighters abusing the mutilated body of a Kurdish fighter.
The head of the rights group, Rami Abdul Rahman, said on Monday
that he had obtained the videos from one of the fighters pictured in them, who identified the group as part of the Free Syrian Army.
"The Turkish state is the world’s sponsor of terrorism." The comment on the videos
that most incensed Kurds in Syria, judging from posts on Kurdish Facebook and Twitter accounts, was "She’s beautiful, man." Her body at that point was partly naked, and her exposed breasts appeared to have been mutilated.
The newspaper dismissed claims that the members of the Free Syrian Army tortured Ms. Kobani as "propaganda." The spokesman
for the main Kurdish militia in the region, Birosk Hasakah, disputed that Ms. Kobani was a suicide attacker.
Berivan Hesen said that They want to break the women, they don’t want them to be free,