Yazidis in Iraq's Shinjar district, who have long suffered from the cruelty of DAESH with many women and children being enslaved by the terror group, are now suffering from oppression by another terrorist group, the PKK, as the organization drives their children to the battlefront by deceiving or kidnapping them, Shinjar District Governor Mehma Halil said.
In his statment published on the website of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Halil said, "The PKK continues its dirty strategy to deceive Yazidi children in order to use them in accordance with their organizational aims."
Another official, Veyis Naif, the head of the Sinjar district council, said that the PKK conducts DAESH-like oppression on the Yazidis and uses their children for its own purposes.
The Nineveh region is home to most of the Yazidi people in Iraq and was captured by Iraqi peshmerga backed by the U.S.-led international coalition in November 2015 after long clashes with DAESH. However, the PKK recently entered a power-struggle with the KDP by trying to control the northern part of Mosul.
The PKK's Syrian offshoot, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), has also come under fire many times for its abuse of children, due to its practice of forcing them on their side in the Syrian civil war.Late on Wednesday, a video of a little girl being told to shoot an automatic rifle, reportedly in a PYD-ruled area in northern Syria, went viral. The video has been described by Twitter users as further proof of child abuse by the PYD.
In the video, the little girl is seen shooting the rifle, shouting the famous PKK slogan "Biji Serok Apo," which means "Long live leader Apo," in reference to the PKK's prisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan.
Another example was Shiar Delil, a 13-year-old boy who was abducted by PYD terrorists in Manbij. After his recruitment, he was killed and PYD sympathizers shared his photos, calling him a "martyr."
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