Families of the kidnapped go out in a protest and demand the release of their children

ARK News… The families of the kidnapped in the city of Qamishlo in Syrian Kurdistan organized a protest sit-in, on Sunday, November 28, 2021, calling for the immediate release of the kidnapped by PYD militants.

Families of six kidnapped people participated in the rally in front of the United Nations headquarters in the city of Qamishlo. They condemned the kidnappings of minors and demanded the immediate release of the kidnapped children for the purpose of forced recruitment.

PYD militants had recently, in separate areas of Syrian Kurdistan, and the areas under their control, kidnapped ten minors for the purpose of forced recruitment, and despite the release of one of them, the fate of the others is still unknown.

The city of Amouda also witnessed a protest sit-in by the families of the kidnapped, calling for the immediate release of minor children.

The minors who were kidnapped by PYD militants are no more than sixteen years old, and according to information received by ARK, they were subjected to training courses to be involved in wars later.

The names are the following:

1- Issam Muhammad Isa, 13 years old, from the village Qitme of Shara town, in the Afrin region of Syrian Kurdistan. He was kidnapped from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in Aleppo.

2- Khattab Obaid Hassan, 15 years old, from Al-Hilaliya neighborhood in Qamishlo, was kidnapped last Wednesday, November 24.

3- Avin Jalal Khalil, 15, was kidnapped on Sunday, November 21, 2021, in the city of Amouda, and her health condition is unstable.

4- Ayana Idris Ibrahim, 16 years old, in Amouda city.

5- Hadiya Abdul Rahim Antar, 15 years old, was kidnapped in the city of Amouda, knowing that Avin, Ayana, and Hadiya were kidnapped together in Amouda. Four days later, the girl Ayana was released.

6- Abeer Kastro Abdulaziz from Pilîsiyê village of Derik area was kidnapped in the city of Qamishlo on November 2, and the minor girl was born in 2006 and suffers from physical diseases.

7- Sidra Khalil Ibrahim, from the village of Ebûdanê of Bulbul town, was kidnapped on November 6, 2021, in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo.

8- Muhammad Abdo Bozo, from the village of Kafardale of Jenderes town, was kidnapped from the al-Shahba camps (the camps of the displaced people of Afrin in the countryside of Aleppo).

9- Abdul Rahman Ahmad Biro, who was kidnapped in the Ashrafiya neighborhood of Aleppo knowing that he suffers from chronic diseases.

10- After her kidnapping last year, the attempted kidnapping of Silva Nidal Isa from Cilbirê village in the Sherawa area of Afrin city, and after her uncle, Abdo Isa intervened and threatened them to expose their practices, the gunmen kidnapped her uncle in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, and his fate is still unknown, and the girl was previously kidnapped on 11/12/2019 from the arms of her mother Zaynab in the Fafin camp for the displaced people of Afrin in al-Shahba and she managed to escape on 1-1-2020.

The Kurdish National Council in Syria had issued a statement on November 24, 2021, in a statement to the public opinion, regarding the continued recruitment of children by the (Revolutionary Youth) organization, in which it held the Syrian Democratic Forces responsible for the kidnapping of children, and appealed to the United Nations, human rights and humanitarian organizations, concerned with the protection of children's rights, and the international coalition forces to carry out their responsibilities and put pressure on the "SDF" to return dozens of minor children kidnapped by the Revolutionary Youth organization and its militias.

Although Mazloum Kobani, the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (QSD), signed a document with the United Nations in 2019, which included the return of minors and the prevention of recruitment for those under 18 years of age, however, the kidnapping of minors and young men continues in the cities and towns of Syrian Kurdistan, as well as the areas under the control of the PYD administration, such as the neighborhoods of Aleppo (Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiya) and the areas of Afrin displaced people in the Aleppo countryside known as al-Shahba.

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