"Revolutionary Youth" kidnaps another child in Aleppo
ARK News…Militants of the Revolutionary Youth Movement, affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), kidnapped a minor child from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in the city of Aleppo.
The child’s uncle, Omar Mustafa Hassan (13 years old), reported to ARK, today, October 21, 2023, that the “Revolutionary Youth Movement” affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) left in front of his house in the western Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in the city of Aleppo, yesterday evening, Monday.
He added, "His father checked with all the headquarters of the PYD party that controls the neighborhood to find out the fate of his son, but they did not acknowledge that they had the child."
The child comes from the village of Ramadana in Jenderes town, Afrin, Syrian Kurdistan.
On November 16, 2023, Revolutionary Youth gunmen kidnapped the student, Aster Ahmed (14 years old), in front of the Salahuddin Girls School in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood.
On the 8th of this November, Revolutionary Youth militants kidnapped the minor, “Sabriya Shiyar Misto, 13 years old,” from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in the city of Aleppo, and after media pressure, the Syrian Democratic Forces released her on the 11th of November.
During October, the ARK website documented the kidnapping of five minor children by armed groups affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces, in the cities of Qamishlo and Aleppo. They are:
Saleen Iyad Mahmoud, 14 years old - Saleen Ibrahim, 15 years old - Merav Adnan Khasho, 15 years old - Semil Zidan Ismail, 14 years old - Ezaddin Bakri Na'asan, 12 years old.
Although the Syrian Democratic Forces signed an action plan with the United Nations in order to end and prevent the recruitment of children under the age of 18 and their use in military actions, as the plan was signed by the Commander-in-Chief of the SDF, Mazloum Kobani, with the United Nations representative for children and armed conflict, Virginia Gamba, but the involvement of minors in battles and their recruitment it is still continuing, amid neglect of the appeals of children’s families and the calls of activists, politicians, and Kurdish parties for the need to put an end to this dangerous phenomenon.
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