The YPG terrorist organization (Syrian wing PKK) continues forcibly attracting minors from families living in the Syria areas captured by the grouping.
This time, the militants of the group stole a 14-year-old teenager A.Kh. In the Syrian province of Rakka, to recruit it into his armed detachments. This was reported to the correspondent of Anadolu by the representative of the opposition Kurdish group “Independent Kurdish Rabita” Redor al-Ahmed.
According to him, terrorists do not allow children to communicate with their parents.
A terrorist organization usually sends abducted children to camps for combat training.
Since the beginning of this year, the terrorist organization has abducted more than 20 children in the territories seized by it in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo, Rakka, Deir ez-Zor and Khasak in order to recruit them into their armed detachments.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CPR of the UN) and other international laws, the use of children for terrorist purposes is classified as “crimes against humanity.”
In the report “Children in annual armed conflicts”, prepared by the UN for the period from January to December 2022, it is indicated that the PKK terrorist organization and its Syrian expansion of SDG and YPG used more than 1,200 children as militants. P>
According to the report, during the reporting period in Syria, 2,407 children underwent cruel violence. 1696 children were used by the YPG/PKK terrorist organization and other armed groups as militants.
In particular, 637 children were recruited by the Syrian branch of the RSC, 633 children YPG/PKK structures associated with SDF.
The report includes the corresponding quote from the UN Secretary General Antoniu Guterrisha. “I am extremely concerned about the use of children as militants by HPG/PKK. I urge these structures to stop using children for military purposes and immediately release them,” the statement said.