PYD: On the Ground Activities in West Kurdistan

WEST KURDISTAN, — The Supreme Kurdish Council Calling on Regime and Opposition Forces to withdraw its Forces out of Sere-Kanieh City.

Qamishlo- The Supreme Kurdish Council held its regular meeting yesterday, to discuss the actual and political situation in Western Kurdistan and specially what is going on in Sere-Kanieh city and also taking control on some cities like Amude, Derbasyeh Deriek, Tel-tamer and its countryside’s and this meeting has made few decisions.

After detailed discussion about all aspects the meeting come out with the following decisions:

1. Provide financial and moral support for Sere-Kanieh people.

2.  Call for the implementation of previous resolutions of the Supreme Kurdish Council In the near future, namely:

A. Formation of the specialized military leadership committee.

B. Formation of conciliation and justice committee.

C. Formation of the humanitarian aid committee.

3. Activating the committees of The Supreme Kurdish Council “Services – and security” in various areas.

4. Calling on “services and security” Committees to take all necessary security and service measures.

5. Requesting civil peace committees in all areas to take the necessary measures to set up a joint management for the various regions.

6 . Call for public demonstrations on Friday 11/16/2012 to support people of Sere-Kanieh and asking the military forces of the regime army and free army forces to withdraw from the city to stop the bombing and destruction.

According to the conclusion of the meeting, “we are calling on all our Kurdish people, our homeland brothers from the Arabs, Syriac and Assyrians to extend their cooperation, joint work and understanding to overcome these difficult circumstances faced by our country in general and our region in particular and achieve the aspirations of the Syrian people to topple the regime and building parliamentary democracy pluralism Syria.”

 

Deriek is completely liberated from Al- Baath Regime Authority

Dereik – after the popular revolution in the cities of Amuda, Derbasyeh and Tel-tamer, Kurdish people in Dereik and its surrounding areas / villages went around intelligence centres, which were effect-less in the city. They kick all intelligence staff out of the city, who were belonging to the Baathist regime.

And thus, also Derika Hamko (Dereik) city maintained the peaceful shape of our Syrian revolution, likewise the rest cities in the western Kurdistan and ended up Al-Baath regime power in the region without spilling any drop of blood.

Report:

Sere-Kanieh … FROM incubator for the displaced People TO a city Free of Population

On the eighth of this month, armed groups belonging to the Free Syrian Army stormed Sere-Kanieh city, where they entered ,nearly thousand member, as several groups calling themselves “Goraba’a Sham, Jabhat Alnasra, Prophet Grandsons, groups included Arabs from Tunisia, Algeria and Libya, entered into Sere-Kanieh crossing through border path, which is located in Al-mahata neighbourhood and connecting the city with northern Kurdistan (Turkey side). Those armed groups clashed in the beginning with a security barrier (regime) doesn’t exceed ten men where located near Tal-Halaf village which is located 3 KM west of Sere-Kanieh city, then they take the control of all security centres in the city and a huge displacement move started towards Turkish border in northern Kurdistan.

The Turkish regime has cleaned the border out of mines and barbed wires in some areas prior to group entry to encourage/prepare the population for migration towards the border, Turkish regime also prepared a big refugee camps near the city of Sere-Kanieh, in Gilan Pienaar city Turkey.

The single security assembly of the regime was including about 50, they were housed by the armed groups in that region till the next day 9th Nov. where violent clashes has taken place between both sides and finally regime forces has surrounded after two days siege, and next day some video’s has showed some dead bodies of these regime member and as per some activists that about 29 men of regime were buried in Sere-Kanieh cemetery.

These armed groups has attacked Sere-Kanieh which inhabited by 40 thousand people for 50 intelligence member! Which resulted 11 thousand people migration to northern Kurdistan while some other families went towards cities and villages of western Kurdistan, several days later Sere-Kanieh city became totally depopulated!.

Syrian regime did not stand idly over the killing of their security members where began the second day of firing mortars over the city and landed about 10 mortar shells in several different districts of the city.

In tenth and eleventh of nov. the city lived a fairly quiet atmosphere, where about 150 families have returned from northern Kurdistan to their homes in the city.

Early morning on Monday 12th Nov., Meg warplanes bombed the city few times, the first time shelling targeted some Kurdish inhabitants in Almahata district, where bombed Ali Mullah house, a lead  in Azadi party who was having some armed groups members in his house which caused destroying several houses.

Kurdish, which was contained elements of the armed groups of the free army in his home, which led to the loss of a number of citizens of the Kurds for their lives in addition to dozens wounded, and destroying dozens of homes. Few hours later , Meg plane started targeting Alhawwarna Kurdish district, where bombed a house was contained a large number of armed groups and shelling caused killing a number of civilians who were living near that house, this regime warplanes bombard Almahata district again.

On Tuesday, “November 13” around 10.00 am ,Meg warplane bombarded three locations, two of them in the city centre “post street”, and “Al-abra street” and the third location was nearby Tel-Halaf, and about 14.40 bombed sports club street near the national hospital also bombed at 14.00 few districts of Sere-Kanieh where shelling targeted churches street, Bukhari Mosque Street, Talaat Saber street, meanwhile Toniah village was bombard as well.

At the same day, military reinforcements from Al-hasaka headed to Sere-Kanieh to support regime forces there, Firat news agency correspondent reported in Tel-tamer that around thousand soldiers were seen, 25 military vehicles,25 Dushka, a large number of rockets, witnesses quoted also that clashes occurred near Al-safeh village on the road between Sere-kanieh and Tel-Tamer between armed groups free army and regime army.

Tuesday evening, heavy clashes were occurred between armed groups belonging to free army and people of Om-Esheba village inhabited by Gamer Arabs( who brought by regime when Alfurat dam build up) , 15 KM east of Sere-Kanieh city.

In the meantime, a meeting between the heads of the Arab tribes and leaders of the armed groups to the request of the armed groups to evacuate the city, but their request was turned down by the armed groups. The correspondent of Firat agency in Rōha city northern Kurdistan reported that Kurdish citizen Ahmed Issa Hassan and Kaniwar Sheikhmous lost their lives, on Tuesday, succumbing of their injuries in city Rōha in northern Kurdistan, according to Firat Agency correspondent that their internal organs had been stolen!.

Early morning hours on Wednesday, the Syrian regime forces shelled  Tweinih, Tel-Halaf and Asfar Najar regions, Firat news agency correspondent reported that regime forces stationed in the villages “Howeish, Hawia, Bu-hasan and Alia” which located in southwest of Sere-Kanieh city on Aleppo road, where regime forces dug trenches.

In a related development, the people of Howeish village said that officers of the regime army have punished village people because on pretext that they gave a help to the armed groups.

Democratic Union Party (PYD)

15.11.12