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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ed-of-ethnic-cleansing-and-killing-opponents/
Syrian Kurds accused of ethnic cleansing and killing opponents
Syrian groups backed by the West have been accused of driving people into the arms of Isil, executing prisoners and killing hundreds of people in recent inter-factional fighting.
The YPG, the Kurdish group being backed both by the United States to fight Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and by the Russians to fight US-supported anti-Assad rebels, is sending civilians into flight with its behaviour, according to a former US ambassador to the country, Robert Ford.
“In some cases, Syrian refugees flee it and don't go towards the Kurdish areas - they run away from them and into Islamic State territory,” Mr Ford told a Senate committee hearing.
He made the accusation at a time when both pro- and anti-regime forces in Syria are fragmenting under the pressure of the seemingly endless conflict.
While the atrocities of the regime and its allies have been well-documented, and some opposition groups have committed abuses from the early days of the fighting, the recent surge of accusations is particularly embarrassing for the United States and its allies.
They have been trying to co-ordinate military support for selected groups with a drive for peace talks in Geneva.
Yet in the past few weeks alone, an Islamist group which has received high-end American weapons has fought with the main Saudi-backed group in the south of the country, in a mini-war estimated to have killed 500 people.
Syrian Kurds accused of ethnic cleansing and killing opponents
Syrian groups backed by the West have been accused of driving people into the arms of Isil, executing prisoners and killing hundreds of people in recent inter-factional fighting.
The YPG, the Kurdish group being backed both by the United States to fight Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and by the Russians to fight US-supported anti-Assad rebels, is sending civilians into flight with its behaviour, according to a former US ambassador to the country, Robert Ford.
“In some cases, Syrian refugees flee it and don't go towards the Kurdish areas - they run away from them and into Islamic State territory,” Mr Ford told a Senate committee hearing.
He made the accusation at a time when both pro- and anti-regime forces in Syria are fragmenting under the pressure of the seemingly endless conflict.
While the atrocities of the regime and its allies have been well-documented, and some opposition groups have committed abuses from the early days of the fighting, the recent surge of accusations is particularly embarrassing for the United States and its allies.
They have been trying to co-ordinate military support for selected groups with a drive for peace talks in Geneva.
Yet in the past few weeks alone, an Islamist group which has received high-end American weapons has fought with the main Saudi-backed group in the south of the country, in a mini-war estimated to have killed 500 people.