JamaliahYusofYacob- Pesawat pengintip terkini China telah didedahkan oleh blog sains. The "misi khas" Pesawat 1.7 tan boleh memintas risikan mengenai aktiviti elektronik musuh dan tempat kelemahan mereka dari langit.
CSA-003 "Pengakap" adalah Intelligence elektronik (ELINT) pesawat terkini China. Dibina oleh bahagian Avionics China Electronic Technology Corporation, "CSA-003 adalah keluarga pesawat misi khas yang termasuk rondaan maritim dan minyak respons tumpahan," menurut blog Sains Popular.
Pesawat itu dikendalikan oleh tidak lebih daripada 2 juruterbang dan satu pengendali sensor. Ia boleh bekerja dengan hubungan satelit dan dengan kumpulan sokongan kawalan darat.
China’s newest spy plane revealed
China’s latest spy plane has been revealed by a science blog. The “special mission” 1.7-ton plane can intercept intelligence on enemies’ electronic activity and spot their vulnerabilities from the sky.
The CSA-003 “Scout” is China’s latest Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) aircraft. Built by the China Electronic Technology Corporation’s Avionics division, “the CSA-003 is a family of special mission aircraft that include maritime patrol and oil spill response,” according to Popular Science blog.
The plane is manned by no more than two pilots and one sensor operator. It can work with satellite links and with ground control support group.
Pesawat itu mampu untuk mendapatkan data mengenai aktiviti elektronik komunikasi, senjata, dan radar menggunakan apa yang dipanggil sistem Digital ELINT dan suite pemprosesan isyarat sekitarnya. Ia juga boleh digunakan untuk kawalan sempadan.
Semua peralatan hi-tec dibawa dalam pod di bawah fiuslaj dalam muatan sensor.
"Selain mengumpul risikan ke atas aktiviti elektronik berpotensi musuh, dalam keadaan medan perang, ia membolehkan serangan elektronik dan siber terhadap elektronik musuh melalui penentuan lokasi dan kelemahan mereka," kata blog itu.
Cuaca tidak ada penghalang kepada pesawat. Pesawat itu boleh mengesan musuh termasuk infantri dalam mana-mana keadaan cuaca melalui dipasang khas/inframerah sensor turet elektro optik.
Pada bulan Januari, tentera China mendedahkan bahawa Beijing merancang untuk mewujudkan kuasa siber Tentera Pembebasan Rakyat baru untuk melawan kuasa-kuasa siber tentera Amerika Syarikat. Col. Li, dikenal pasti sebagai Timbalan Pengarah Pusat NDU untuk Cyberspace Security, berkata langkah itu adalah perlu, kerana, menurut beliau, Pentagon telah meningkatkan keupayaan serangan siber itu.
Kedua-dua negara telah berulang kali menuduh antara satu sama lain menjalankan serangan pengintipansiber.
The plane is able to obtain data on electronic activities surrounding communications, weapons, and radar using the so-called Digital ELINT system and signal processing suite. It can also be used for border control.
All that hi-tec equipment is carried in a pod under the fuselage in the sensor payload.
“In addition to collecting intelligence on potential enemies' electronic activity, in a battlefield situation, it enables electronic and cyber attacks against enemy electronics through pinpointing their location and vulnerabilities,” the blog says.
Weather is no hindrance to the aircraft. The plane can detect enemy forces including infantry in any weather conditions through a specially installed electro optical/infrared sensor turret.
In January, Chinese military revealed that Beijing planned on creating a new People’s Liberation Army cyber force to counter the US military cyber forces. Col. Li, identified as deputy director of the NDU’s Center for Cyberspace Security, said the measure was a necessary, since, according to him, Pentagon had been boosting its cyberattack capabilities.
Both countries have repeatedly accused each other of carrying out cyber-espionage attacks.
Diamond DA42 adalah yang ringan, 4-orang pesawat mampu berlepas dari landasan kasar. kekuatan dan saiz kecil menjadikannya sesuai untuk digunakan sebagai pesawat sokongan ketenteraan cahaya dalam persekitaran COIN, sebagaibertujuan untuk CSA-003.
The Diamond DA42 is a lightweight, 4-person aircraft capable of taking off from rough runways. Its toughness and small size makes it ideal for use as a light militarized support aircraft in COIN environments, as the CSA-003 is intended for.
JamaliahYusofYacob- Negara Islam (IS) cuba untuk mengisi pangkat secara mendadak semakin berkurangan dengan perekrut kanak-kanak, laporan RT`s Gayane Chichakyan. Dengan gaji pejuang dikelar pada separuh dan ‘witch hunt’ (memburu ahli sihir) yang berterusan untuk berpaling tadah, pengganas terdesak untuk tenaga kerja.
"Penggunaan bawah umur menunjukkan betapa kejam kumpulan pengganas adalah tetapi juga bagaimana terdesak," kata Chichakyan.
BACA lebih lanjut: ISIS pelaksanaan video menunjukkan 4yo 'Jihadi Junior' meletupkan 'mata-mata British' http://on.rt.com/749g
Keadaan yang mencemaskan di mana IS mendapati dirinya - di bawah serangan dari kedua-dua tentera udara Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat bagi 6 bulan yang lalu - mendorong kepada lebih bermakna pada pejuang tempatan, kanak-kanak iaitu muda, ada tidak lebih daripada 8. Ramai daripada mereka telah diculik. Dilaporkan bahawa kira-kira 400 kanak-kanak Yazidi telah diculik di Iraq oleh militan IS dalam bulan Januari sahaja.
"Laporan yang kita dapatkan dari alasan bahawa terdapat lebih dan banyak yang berpaling tadah, tetapi juga bahawa semakin Daesh (singkatan Arab untuk Negara Islam) adalah bergantung kepada tentera kanak-kanak," kata jurucakap Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kirby pada Selasa, sambil menambah bahawa ia menunjukkan bahawa "mereka sedang bergelut dengan keupayaan mereka untuk merekrut dan mengekalkan tenaga kerja."
Negara Islam (IS) telah menggunakan kanak-kanak di medan pertempuran dan juga untuk tujuan propaganda sejak kemunculannya. Ashbal al-Khilafah atau "Cubs Khilafah" menjalani latihan ketenteraan dan indoktrinasi di kem-kem khas, dilihat mempamerkan kemahiran menakutkan mereka dalam beberapa video yang diterbitkan oleh kumpulan pengganas dalam talian.
Dalam satu daripada mereka dikeluarkan pada bulan Disember tahun lepas, sekumpulan 6 kanak-kanak berumur setiap kira-kira 8 tahun, nampaknya mengambil bahagian dalam mengerikan permainan sorok-menyorok. Video yang bertajuk "Untuk Anak Yahudi" menunjukkan kanak-kanak dipandu oleh seorang senior IS 'pengajar' melaksanakan satu tawanan setiap satu dengan tembakan pada jarak yang dekat. Orang-orang tawanan, yang digambarkan sebagai "mata-mata kerajaan Syria" tersembunyi di tengah-tengah runtuhan purba. Budak lepas, bukannya menembak mangsa, mengambil pisau dan memenggal mangsa.
BACA lebih lanjut: ISIS menggunakan taktik Nazi untuk melatih belia untuk menjadi 'lebih maut, kejam, pejuang yang lebih baik' - Laporanhttp://on.rt.com/7694
Satu lagi video mengganggu menunjukkan bayi yang seusia 4 tahun, yang memakai pakaian celoreng dan digelar Jihadis Junior, meletupkan 3 banduan dengan menekan butang pada alat kawalan jauh. Rakaman ini muncul Februari tahun ini.
Menurut laporan PBB-disahkan, yang disediakan oleh pemikir yang berpangkalan di London dan bertajuk "Kanak-kanak Negara Islam (IS)" antara 1 Ogos tahun lepas dan 9 Februari tahun ini, sebanyak 254 acara atau penyata menampilkan imej kanak-kanak dalam propaganda IS telah dikenal pasti. Kaedah penggunaan 'pengajar' dewasa untuk mengambil kanak-kanak kecil sering paksaan dengan penculikan menjadi kaedah kegemaran. Laporan itu juga berpendapat bahawa membasuh otak teknik digunakan oleh IS menyerupai yang digunakan dalam Belia Hitler.
Pendahuluan dengan tentera Syria dan Rusia, serta serangan yang dilakukan oleh pakatan diketuai Amerika Syarikat, telah nyata lemah Negara Islam (IS) dan membuat beratus-ratus orang meninggalkan dari ahli-ahlinya. Laporan sebelum ini timbul bahawa 8 jihadis Belanda dituduh cubaan pembelotan telah dilaksanakan oleh pejuang ISIS tempatan di kubu kumpulan pengganas Raqqa lewat pada bulan Februari. Bilangan pejuang lompat dari IS untuk menyertai kumpulan-kumpulan radikal Islam tumbuh, kerana IS kepimpinan kononnya membuka memburu sihir pada "kafir".
"Mereka membunuh kami, mereka memanggil kita kafir, meragui kami. Kami menyokong mereka dan mereka meragui kami, "kata seorang lelaki dalam video apa yang kelihatan sebagai sekumpulan bekas pejuang Negara Islam (IS) yang melarikan diri dari Aleppo.
Kementerian Pertahanan Rusia melaporkan bahawa Tentera Udara negara di Syria telah dijalankan lebih daripada 9000 serangan sejak 30 September 2015. Sepanjang kempen itu, kawasan di bawah kawalan pengganas telah merosot dengan ketara. Usaha bersepadu oleh Syria dan Rusia "telah dibebaskan 400 kawasan berpenduduk dan lebih 10,000 kilometer persegi [3,860 batu persegi] wilayah," menurut Menteri Pertahanan Russia`s Sergey Shoigu.
ADALAH turut mengalami satu tamparan berat untuk perdagangan minyak haram, sumber utama pendapatan. pesawat perang Rusia di Syria telah memusnahkan 209 kemudahan pengeluaran minyak pengganas dan kira-kira 3,000 trak penghantaran minyak. Pada 14 Mac, Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin mengarahkan penarikan balik lelaki bahagian pesawat tentera Rusia dari Syria sebagai objektif yang dinyatakan operasi telah sebahagian besarnya telah dicapai.
ISIS increasingly relies on child jihadists amid mass losses and desertion (VIDEO)
Islamic State tries to fill up its dramatically dwindling ranks with children recruiters, RT`s Gayane Chichakyan reports. With fighters’ salaries slashed in half and an ongoing witch hunt for defectors, terrorists are desperate for manpower.
“The use of minors shows not only how brutal the terrorist group is but also how desperate,” says Chichakyan.
Read more: ISIS execution video shows 4yo 'Jihadi Junior' blowing up 'British spies'http://on.rt.com/749g
The dire situation in which IS finds itself – under attack from both Russian and US air forces for the past 6 months – prompted it to count more on homegrown fighters, namely young children, some no older than 8. Many of them were kidnapped. It was reported that around 400 Yazidi children were abducted in Iraq by IS militants in January alone.
“Reports that we’re getting from the ground that there are more and more defectors, but also that increasingly Daesh (Arabic acronym for Islamic State) is relying on child soldiers,” US State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday, adding that it indicates that “they are struggling with their ability to recruit and to retain manpower.”
Islamic State has been using children at the battleground as well for propaganda purposes since its emergence. The Ashbal al-Khilafa or “Cubs of the Caliphate” undergo military training and indoctrination in special camps, were seen showcasing their harrowing skills in a number of videos, published by the terror group online.
In one of them released in December last year, a group of six children each about 8 years old, apparently participate in an appalling hide-and-seek game. The video titled “To the Son of Jews” shows children guided by a senior IS ‘instructor’ executing one captive each by gunshot at a close range. The captives, who are described as “Syrian government spies” are hidden amid the ancient ruins. The last boy, instead of shooting his prey, takes a knife and beheads the victim.
Read more: ISIS uses Nazi tactics to train youths to become 'more lethal, brutal, better fighters' - reporthttp://on.rt.com/7694
Another disturbing video shows a 4-year-old infant, dressed in camouflage clothing and nicknamed Jihadi Junior, blowing up three prisoners by pressing a button on a remote control. The footage emerged February this year.
According to a UN-endorsed report, prepared by a London-based think tank and entitled “Children of Islamic State” between August 1 last year and February 9 this year, a total of 254 events or statements featuring images of children in IS propaganda have been identified. The methods the adult ‘instructors’ use to recruit young children are often coercive with abduction being the favorite method. The report also argues that brainwashing techniques applied by IS resemble those used in Hitler Youth.
Advances by Syrian and Russian forces, as well as strikes conducted by the US-led coalition, have noticeably weakened Islamic State and made hundreds of people desert from its ranks. Earlier reports surfaced that eight Dutch jihadists accused of a desertion attempt were executed by local ISIS fighters in the terror group’s stronghold of Raqqa late in February. The number of fighters defecting from IS to join other radical Islamic groups grows, as IS leadership supposedly opened a witch hunt on “infidels”.
“They killed us, they called us infidels, doubted us. We supported them and they doubted us,” a man said in a video of what appears to be a group of former Islamic State fighters fleeing Aleppo.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that the country’s Air Force in Syria had carried out more than 9000 sorties since September 30, 2015. During the course of the campaign, the territory under terrorist control has shrunk significantly. Concerted efforts by Syrian and Russian “have freed 400 populated areas and over 10,000 square kilometers [3,860 square miles] of territories," according to Russia`s defense minister Sergey Shoigu.
IS also sustained a heavy blow to illicit oil trade, the major source of its income. Russian warplanes in Syria have destroyed 209 terrorist oil production facilities and about 3,000 oil delivery trucks. On March 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered withdrawal of the man part of Russian military planes from Syria as the operation’s stated objectives have been largely accomplished.
JamaliahYusofYacob- Akaun menakutkan daripada pembunuhan beramai-ramai yang didakwa daripada berpuluh-puluh orang awam Kurdish di bandar Turki tenggara Cizre telah dikumpulkan oleh RT William Whiteman, yang mengembara ke kawasan itu berikutan laporan tindakan keras tentera kejam ke atas penduduk.
Laporan tentera Turki menyembelih beratus-ratus orang awam yang terperangkap di bawah tanah Cizre, yang terletak di wilayah Sirnak Turki, pertama muncul pada bulan Februari. Seramai 150 orang telah didakwa dibakar hingga mati dalam salah seorang daripada mereka.
Itulah tuntutan tertentu yang telah dibuat oleh MP Turki Feleknas Uca dari Parti Demokratik Rakyat pro-Kurdish', yang bercakap kepada agensi Sputnik. Ini dan lain-lain orang yang terperangkap dilaporkan dinafikan akses kepada makanan dan bekalan perubatan. Walau bagaimanapun, sehingga kini, kekejaman yang dikatakan dilakukan oleh tentera Turki tidak dapat dibuktikan.
Whiteman mendapati saksi yang terselamat serangan dan mampu untuk menunjukkan tempat yang tepat dari pembunuhan beramai-ramai, di samping menyediakan butiran menakutkan kepada apa yang telah berlaku.
"Saya tidak akan mahu ini pada sesiapa. Erdogan telah memusnahkan DUNIA kami. Beliau telah membakar kami, "kata seorang saksi wanita, sambil menunjukkan kesan darah pada serpihan bangunan itu maut.
"3, 4 - mungkin 5 ratus orang. Terdapat orang-orang tua, wanita dan kanak-kanak - berusia seawal usia 10 tahun. Mereka membunuh seorang wanita yang sarat mengandung, "kata wanita itu, menyalahkan Erdogan untuk membunuh sewenang-wenangnya orang yang tidak bersalah semasa operasi memerangi keganasan yang dipanggil terhadap pemisah Parti Pekerja Kurdis (PKK).
"Wanita dan kanak-kanak tinggal di sini. Erdogan membunuh semua mereka dengan meriam berat, dia memusnahkan rumah2 ini, "kata wanita itu.
"Mereka mendakwa mereka berjuang 'pengganas' - tetapi di mana pengganas" katanya, dengan alasan bahawa semua mangsa orang awam.
Semasa pemeriksaan bandar, Whiteman dilaporkan bau yang kuat mayatreput. Ini membawa beliau kepada satu lagi penemuan mengerikan - sebuah bangunan yang bawah tanah telah berkhidmat sebagai kubur besar-besaran.
BACA LAGI: 150 didakwa 'dibakar hidup-hidup oleh tentera Turki' semasa tindakan keras ke atas Parti Pekerja Kurdistan (PKK) http://on.rt.com/74wn
Antara 45 dan 50 orang telah dibakar hidup-hidup di salah satu bangunan, menurut seorang wanita tempatan demikian kepada Whiteman. Apa yang lebih teruk, kebanyakan mangsa nampaknya telah darah sejuk dipancung oleh tentera Turki, katanya.
"Mereka [tentera Turki] membakar semua daripada mereka. Setelah kami tiba di ruangan bawah ini kami mendapati badan dipancung, "kata saksi itu memberitahu Whiteman. "Mereka membakar mereka dan mereka dipancung."
RT telah mengemukakan rakaman gambar dalam Cizre untuk HRW (Human Rights Watch), MSF Antarabangsa dan MSF Timur Tengah (Médecins Sans Frontières), (Jawatankuasa Antarabangsa Palang Merah) ICRC, OHCHR (Pejabat Pesuruhjaya Tinggi PBB untuk Hak Asasi manusia), dan Amnesty International. Saluran ini ditanya sama ada pertubuhan berkenaan merancang untuk menyiasat dakwaan kekejaman tentera Turki 'terhadap orang awam di sana, dan jika mana-mana kenyataan akan dibuat.
Sejak operasi ketenteraan ke atas penduduk Kurdish di rantau Cizre bermula, ahli-ahli Parlimen Eropah telah menangani Presiden Turki Recep Tayyip Erdogan dalam surat terbuka dan ceramah, yang memintanya menghentikan keganasan di wilayah Turki didiami oleh Kurdis.
"Objektif kerajaan Erdogan adalah untuk sepenuhnya mempunyai kempen pembunuhan terhadap orang Kurdis, kerana itulah apa yang kini berlaku," kata Gregory Copley, editor jurnal Pertahanan dan Hal Ehwal Luar. "Ini kini pembunuhan beramai-ramai, kerana kerajaan Turki telah menafikan bahawa terdapat sebarang operasi ketenteraan utama dijalankan di sana."
Tentera Turki telah jelas telah menggunakan "senjata berat darat" dalam Cizre dan "mungkin juga senjata udara," katanya.
'Erdogan boleh berakhir di Hague untuk pembunuhan beramai-ramai Kurdis'
Mengulas mengenai keganasan di Cizre, Kani Xulam, pengarah Maklumat Kurdish Network Amerika (AKIN), menuduh kerajaan Erdogan jenayah perang.
"Apa yang kerajaan Turki telah dilakukan dalam Cizre adalah satu jenayah perang. Mereka telah menyerang orang awam yang tidak mengambil bahagian dalam pertempuran, "Xulam kepada RT, menekankan bahawa tentera Turki menyerang orang awam Kurdish yang tidak mengambil bahagian dalam pertempuran. "Dalam sebuah negara yang bercita-cita untuk menyertai Kesatuan Eropah dan panggilan sendiri ahli NATO, anda tidak menyasarkan seluruh bandar," kata pakar itu, sambil menambah bahawa "undang-undang perang" bermaksud membuat perbezaan antara orang awam dan pihak yang berperang.
Menurut data yang disediakan oleh Yayasan Hak Asasi Manusia Turki, "178 orang awam telah sengaja disasarkan dalam 3 bawah tanah yang berbeza dan di antara beberapa daripada mangsa adalah kanak-kanak berusia 9 hingga 10 tahun . . . Kerajaan bukan sahaja sengaja mengsasarkan dan membunuh mereka, tetapi juga membakarnya. Beberapa saudara-mara diberi timbunan tulang orang yang tersayang, "kata Xulam.
Xulam percaya bahawa serangan Ankara terhadap Kurdis berpunca daripada hakikat bahawa Erdogan mahu menjadi "pemimpin agung" tanpa bertanding atau "sultan" Turki, yang penduduk Kurdish dan Ahli Parlimen yang menentang sekeras-kerasnya. Menurut Xulam, matlamat Erdogan adalah untuk membuat minoriti yang ketara Kurdish etnik (15 hingga 30 % peratus daripada penduduk Turki dengan anggaran pelbagai) menerima status "rendah" sebagai "mata pelajaran," dan berhenti bahasa mencabar dan hak budaya, serta autonomi.
Operasi ketenteraan Turki terhadap militan PKK di bahagian tenggara negara ini telah dilancarkan pada Julai 2015, melanggar perjanjian gencatan senjata yang telah diadakan selama 2 tahun. Pada masa pembunuhan besar-besaran yang dikatakan dalam Cizre, televisyen kerajaan Turki mengumumkan bahawa 60 "pengganas" terbunuh dalam ruangan bawah tanah bangunan. Operasi di Cizre, yang, menurut Menteri Dalam Negeri Turki Efkan Ala, telah siap "dengan cara yang sangat berjaya," secara rasmi berakhir awal Februari.
Kekejaman yang didakwa telah membawa reaksi sedikit daripada kerajaan Barat, Turki ialah sebuah negara anggota NATO dan penting untuk berpunca orang-orang pelarian dan krisis asing menggenggam Eropah.
Kebanyakan kritikan telah datang dari kumpulan hak asasi manusia antarabangsa. Amnesty International melaporkan pada Januari bahawa sekurang-kurangnya 150 orang awam, wanita dan kanak-kanak di antara mereka, telah terbunuh dalam operasi tentera Turki, mengatakan bahawa kira-kira 200,000 orang telah meletakkan pada risiko dan sedang akses kepada perkhidmatan kerana perintah berkurung yang ketat dinafikan.
"Potong untuk bekalan air dan elektrik yang digabungkan dengan bahaya mengakses makanan dan rawatan perubatan manakala di bawah api yang mempunyai kesan yang amat buruk kepada penduduk, dan keadaan itu mungkin menjadi lebih buruk, cepat, jika ini tidak ditangani," kata John Dalhuisen , Pengarah Amnesty Antarabangsa untuk Eropah dan Asia Tengah, seperti yang dipetik dalam laporan itu.
Menunjukkan tindak balas longgar kepada pencabulan hak asasi manusia yang dilakukan secara beramai-ramai oleh pihak berkuasa Turki terhadap penduduk Kurdish, beliau menggesa masyarakat antarabangsa untuk tidak menjadikan buta pada konflik.
"Walaupun pihak berkuasa Turki muncul telah dipilih untuk mendiamkan kritikan dalaman, mereka telah menghadapi yang sangat sedikit daripada masyarakat antarabangsa. pertimbangan strategik yang berkaitan dengan konflik di Syria dan usaha bertekad untuk mendapatkan bantuan Turki di berpunca aliran pelarian ke Eropah tidak perlu mengeruhkan dakwaan pencabulan hak asasi manusia, "katanya.
‘BURNED to death, beheaded’: Cizre Kurds accuse Erdogan’s forces of civilian massacre (RT EXCLUSIVE)
Harrowing accounts of an alleged massacre of dozens of Kurdish civilians in the southeastern Turkish town of Cizre have been collected by RT’s William Whiteman, who traveled to the area following reports of a brutal military crackdown on the population.
Reports of Turkish troops slaughtering hundreds of civilians trapped in the basements of Cizre, which is located in Turkey’s Sirnak province, first surfaced in February. Some 150 people were allegedly burned to death in one of them.
That particular claim was made by Turkish MP Feleknas Uca from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, who spoke to Sputnik agency. These and other trapped people were reportedly denied access to food and medical supplies. However, until now, the alleged atrocities committed by the Turkish forces could not be substantiated on the ground.
Whiteman found witnesses who survived the offensive and were able to show the exact place of the mass killing, while providing terrifying details on what had happened.
“I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. Erdogan has destroyed our world. He has burned us,” said a female witness, while showing blood stains on the debris of the deadly building.
“Three, four – maybe five hundred people. There were old people, women and children – some as young as 10 years old. They killed a heavily pregnant woman,” added the woman, blaming Erdogan for indiscriminately killing innocent people during the so-called counter-terrorism operation against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) separatists.
“Women and children lived here. Erdogan killed all of them with heavy artillery, he destroyed this home,” added the woman.
“They claim they are fighting ‘terrorists’ – but where are the terrorists?” she said, arguing that all of the victims had been civilians.
While inspecting the town, Whiteman reported a strong scent of decomposing bodies. This led him to another chilling discovery – a building whose basement has served as a mass grave.
Between 45 and 50 people were burned alive in one of the buildings, according to a local woman speaking to Whiteman. What is worse, many of the victims appear to have been cold-bloodedly beheaded by the Turkish troops, she said.
“They [Turkish forces] burned all of them. When we entered this basement we found decapitated bodies,” the witness told Whiteman. “They burned them and beheaded them.”
RT has submitted the footage shot in Cizre to HRW (Human Rights Watch), MSF International and MSF Middle East (Médecins Sans Frontières), the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross), the OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights), and Amnesty International. The channel asked if the organizations in question are planning to investigate the claims of Turkish forces' atrocities against civilians there, and if any statements will be made.
Ever since the military operation on the Kurdish population in the Cizre region began, members of the European Parliament have been addressing Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in open letters and public speeches, calling on him to put an end to the violence in Turkish regions inhabited by Kurds.
“The objective of the Erdogan government is to completely have a genocidal campaign against the Kurds, because that’s what’s now occurring,” said Gregory Copley, editor of the journal Defense and Foreign Affairs. “This is now genocide, because the Turkish government has denied that there is any major military operation underway there.”
The Turkish military has clearly been using “heavy ground weapons” in Cizre and “possibly even air weapons,” he added.
‘Erdogan could end up in The Hague for genocide of Kurds’
Commenting on the violence in Cizre, Kani Xulam, director of the American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN), accused Erdogan’s government of war crimes.
“What the government of Turkey has done in Cizre is a war crime. They have attacked civilians who have not taken part in the fighting,” Xulam told RT, stressing that the Turkish military attacked Kurdish civilians that were not taking part in the fighting. “In a country that is aspiring to join the European Union and calls itself a member of NATO, you don’t target a whole town,” the expert said, adding that the “laws of war” imply making a distinction between civilians and belligerents.
According to data provided by the Turkish Human Rights Foundation, “178 civilians were deliberately targeted in three different basements and among some of the dead were children as young as nine to 10 years old…The government not only deliberately targeted and killed them, but also burned them. Some relatives were given piles of bones of their loved ones,” Xulam said.
Xulam believes that Ankara’s offensive against the Kurds stems from the fact that Erdogan wants to be an uncontested “supreme leader” or “sultan” of Turkey, which the Kurdish population and its MPs strongly oppose. According to Xulam, Erdogan’s goal is to make the significant Kurdish ethnic minority (15 to 30 percent of Turkey’s population by various estimates) accept “inferior” status as “subjects,” and stop demanding language and cultural rights, as well as autonomy.
The Turkish military operation against PKK militants in the southeastern part of the country was launched in July 2015, breaking a ceasefire agreement that had held for two years. At the time of the alleged mass murder in Cizre, Turkish state television announced that 60 “terrorists” were killed in a building basement. The operation in Cizre, which, according to Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala, was completed “in a very successful fashion,” officially ended early February.
The alleged atrocities have brought little reaction from Western governments, as Turkey is a NATO member state and crucial to stemming the refugee and migrant crisis gripping Europe.
Most criticism has come from international human rights groups. Amnesty International reported in January that at least 150 civilians, women and children among them, had been killed in the Turkish military operation, saying that some 200,000 people had been put at risk and were being denied access to services due to strict curfews.
“Cuts to water and electricity supplies combined with the dangers of accessing food and medical care while under fire are having a devastating effect on residents, and the situation is likely to get worse, fast, if this isn’t addressed,” said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International’s Director for Europe and Central Asia, as cited in the report.
Pointing out the lax reaction to the human rights violations committed en mass by Turkish authorities against the Kurdish population, he urged the international community not to turn a blind on the conflict.
“While the Turkish authorities appear determined to silence internal criticism, they have faced very little from the international community. Strategic considerations relating to the conflict in Syria and determined efforts to enlist Turkey’s help in stemming the flow of refugees to Europe must not overshadow allegations of gross human rights violations,” he added.
JamaliahYusofYacob- RT telah melancarkan petisyen meminta siasatan UNHRC yang dipimpin ke dalam dakwaan pembunuhan beramai-dakwaan orang awam Kurdish. Ia dikatakan telah dilakukan oleh tentera Turki semasa tindakan keras Ankara pada Kurd di tenggara negara.
Krew RT melawat Cizre di wilayah Sirnak Turki berikutan laporan tindakan keras tentera kejam ke atas penduduk awam di kawasan itu. Ia didakwa termasuk penyembelihan beratus-ratus orang awam yang terperangkap di bawah tanah. Laporan yang muncul pada bulan Februari menyatakan bahawa kira-kira 150 orang telah dibakar hingga mati.
RT William Whiteman menyaksikan adegan mengejutkan kemusnahan di bandar Turki tenggara, dan dipungut akaun menakutkan daripada pembunuhan beramai-ramai yang didakwa orang awam Kurdis di sana.
Saksi-saksi yang terselamat serangan oleh tentera Turki disediakan Whiteman dengan butiran menakutkan kepada apa yang telah berlaku di kawasan yang kini musnah, dan menunjukkan lokasi pembunuhan besar-besaran yang dikatakan itu.
Rakaman dirakam oleh wartawan RT dalam Cizre telah dikemukakan kepada Human Rights Watch (HRW), cawangan-cawangan antarabangsa dan Timur Tengah Medics Tanpa Sempadan (MSF), Jawatankuasa Antarabangsa Palang Merah (ICRC), Pejabat Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu Pesuruhjaya Tinggi Hak Asasi Manusia (OHCHR), dan Amnesty International.
RT ditanya sama ada organisasi antarabangsa telah merancang untuk menyiasat dakwaan kekejaman tentera Turki 'terhadap orang awam, dan jika mana-mana kenyataan akan dibuat. Tiada seorang pun daripada mereka telah memberi maklum balas secara terperinci, memetik pelbagai sebab.
Amnesty International melalui e-mel mengatakan mereka "tidak akan dapat mengulas mengenai ini pada masa ini dan mesti menolak tawaran anda." HRW berkata penyelidik Turki mereka "masih mencari ke dalam dakwaan itu, tetapi tidak disediakan untuk komen pada masa ini."
ICRC berkata mereka tidak mempunyai pejabat Turki, dengan itu tidak boleh menyiasat keadaan di tenggara. Pejabat Pesuruhjaya Hak Asasi Manusia PBB di Geneva hanya ditawarkan satu siaran media bertarikh 1 Februari, manakala MSF tidak menjawab seperti penerbitan ini.
"Kami mahu menarik perhatian umum dan memanggil satu siasatan antarabangsa yang bebas yang diketuai oleh UNHRC ke dalam pembunuhan besar-besaran yang dikatakan Kurd di tenggara Turki," petisyen yang dilancarkan oleh RT pada platform Change.org itu berkata.
Menteri Luar Rusia Sergey Lavrov dipanggil untuk siasatan terhadap laporan besar-besaran penyalahgunaan hak asasi manusia di tenggara Turki terhadap warga Kurdis.
"Mana-mana laporan, terutamanya mereka yang didokumenkan, kira-kira skala penyalahgunaan hak asasi manusia kurang ajar dan besar dan pelanggaran undang-undang kemanusiaan antarabangsa mesti disiasat. Terdapat prosedur antarabangsa khas untuk itu, "kata Lavrov.
Turki telah mendakwa ia akan meneruskan operasinya terhadap militia Kurdis, berkata matlamatnya adalah "untuk memastikan keamanan di rantau ini."
Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat berkata ia mempunyai "pasti mengakui hak Turki untuk mempertahankan dirinya daripada pengganas," merujuk kepada Parti Pekerja Kurdistan (PKK), kumpulan militan yang membawa perang gerila menentang Turki, tetapi menambah bahawa Ankara mesti "berbuat demikian mengikut dengan undang-undang dan obligasi antarabangsa yang mereka ada."
Pada 1 Januari, 200 ahli akademik dari seluruh DUNIA menandatangani petisyen mengecam operasi ketenteraan Turki terhadap orang Kurd. Dokumen itu telah berjenama "propaganda pengganas" oleh kerajaan Turki, dan lebih daripada 20 ahli akademik telah ditahan oleh pihak berkuasa Turki untuk menurunkan tandatangan.
Laporan tentera Turki menyembelih puluhan orang awam yang terperangkap di bawah tanah Cizre pertama muncul pada bulan Februari. Seorang ahli Parlimen Turki dari Parti Demokratik Rakyat pro-Kurdis 'menuduh tentera yang punyai "dibakar hidup-hidup" di sekitar 150 orang, ketika mereka sedang terperangkap di bawah tanah di bangunan yang berbeza.
"Ada mayat ditemui tanpa kepala. Ada yang dibakar sepenuhnya, jadi bedah siasat yang tidak mungkin," Feleknas Uca kepada agensi berita Sputnik, sambil menambah bahawa "paling" yang terbunuh adalah Kurdis. Dalam laporan yang tidak disahkan itu, Ahli Parlimen memberi amaran bahawa lebih ramai orang akan menghadapi nasib yang sama, sebagai lebih daripada 200 kekal di dalam bangunan yang terperangkap di rantau ini.
Sebelum tuntutan Ahli Parlimen Turki, agensi berita anha melaporkan penemuan lebih 100 mayat di Sur dan Cudi kejiranan daerah Cizre Sirnak ini. sampel DNA diambil daripada mangsa untuk mengenal pasti mayat, kerana mayat telah begitu teruk dibakar bahawa saudara-mara hanya dapat mengenal pasti 10 daripada mereka, menurut laporan itu.
Pada bulan Februari, Yayasan Hak Asasi Manusia Turki berkata, sejak 16 Ogos 2015 sehingga Februari 5, 2016 sekurang-kurangnya 224 orang awam (42 kanak-kanak, 31 wanita, 30 orang yang berumur 60 ke atas) kehilangan nyawa mereka di daerah dan semasa tempoh apabila perintah berkurung adalah secara rasmi diisytiharkan. Ia menambah: "Adalah dianggarkan bahawa, menurut 2014 banci penduduk, sekurang-kurangnya 1.377.000 penduduk terjejas" oleh mereka perintah berkurung dan hak-hak asasi dari orang-orang "telah dilanggar dengan jelas."
Amnesty International melaporkan pada Januari bahawa operasi tentera Turki yang dijalankan di bawah perintah berkurung bulat-yang-masa telah meletakkan kehidupan puluhan ribu orang yang berisiko dan merupakan "permulaan menyerupai hukuman kolektif."
"Dipotong untuk bekalan air dan elektrik yang digabungkan dengan bahaya mengakses makanan dan rawatan perubatan manakala di bawah serangan yang mempunyai kesan yang amat buruk kepada penduduk, dan keadaan itu mungkin menjadi lebih buruk, cepat, jika ini tidak ditangani," kata John Dalhuisen , pengarah Amnesty International untuk Eropah dan Asia Tengah.
to probe Turkey's alleged killing Of Kurdish civilians
RT has launched a petition calling for a UNHRC-led investigation into claims of alleged mass killing of Kurdish civilians. It is said to have been committed by the Turkish military during Ankara's crackdown on Kurds in the country's southeast.
An RT crew visited Cizre in Turkey’s Sirnak province following reports of a brutal military crackdown on the civilian population in the area. It allegedly included slaughtering of hundreds of civilians trapped in basements. The reports which surfaced in February stated that some 150 people were burned to death.
RT's William Whiteman witnessed shocking scenes of destruction in the southeastern Turkish town, and collected horrifying accounts of an alleged massacre of Kurdish civilians there.
Witnesses who survived the offensive by the Turkish military provided Whiteman with terrifying details on what had happened in the now-devastated area, and showed the location of the alleged mass killing.
The footage shot by RT journalists in Cizre has been submitted to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the international and Middle East branches of Medics Without Borders (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and Amnesty International.
RT asked if the international organizations were planning to investigate the claims of Turkish forces' atrocities against civilians, and if any statements would be made. None of them have responded in detail, citing a variety of reasons.
Amnesty International emailed saying they "will not be able to comment on this at this time and must decline your offer."HRW said their Turkish researchers "are still looking into the allegations, but are not available to comment at present."
The ICRC said they do not have a Turkish office, thus cannot investigate the situation in its southeast. The UN Human Rights Commissioner's office in Geneva only offered a press-release dated February 1, while MSF have not replied as of this publication.
"We want to attract widespread public attention and call for an independent international investigation led by UNHRC into the alleged mass killing of Kurds in south-eastern Turkey," the petition launched by RT on the Change.org platform says.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called for an investigation into reports of massive human rights abuse in south-eastern Turkey against Kurdish nationals.
“Any reports, particularly those documented ones, about rude and large scale human rights abuse and violations of international humanitarian law must be investigated. There are special international procedures for that,” Lavrovsaid.
Turkey has claimed it will continue its operations against Kurdish militia, saying its aim is "to ensure peace in the region."
The US State Department said it has "certainly acknowledged Turkey’s right to defend itself against terrorists," referring to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the militant group leading a guerrilla war against Turkey, but added that Ankara must"do so in accordance with international law and obligations that they have."
On January 1, 200 academics from around the world signed a petition denouncing Turkey’s military operation against the Kurds. The document was branded "terrorist propaganda" by the Turkish government, and over 20 academics were detained by the Turkish authorities for signing it.
Reports of Turkish troops slaughtering scores of civilians trapped in the basements of Cizre first surfaced in February. A member of the Turkish parliament from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party accused the military of having "burned alive" around 150 people, while they were trapped in basements in different buildings.
"Some corpses were found without heads. Some were burned completely, so that autopsy is not possible," Feleknas Uca told Sputnik news agency, adding that "most" of those killed were Kurds. In his unverified report, the MP warned that more people could face a similar fate, as more than 200 remained trapped inside buildings across the region.
Prior to the Turkish MP's claims, the ANHA news agency reported the discovery of over a hundred bodies in the Sur and Cudi neighborhoods of Sirnak's Cizre district. DNA samples were taken from the victims to identify the bodies, as the corpses were so badly burned that relatives were only able to identify 10 of them, according to the report.
In February, the Turkish Human Rights Foundationsaidthat since August 16, 2015 until February 5, 2016 at least 224 civilians (42 children, 31 women, 30 people over the age 60) lost their lives in the regions and during periods when curfews were officially declared. It added: “It is estimated that, according to the 2014 population census, at least 1,377,000 residents have been affected” by those curfews and the fundamental rights of those people “have been explicitly violated.”
Amnesty Internationalreportedin January that the Turkish military operation conducted under round-the-clock curfews was putting the lives of tens of thousands of people at risk and was “beginning to resemble collective punishment.”
“Cuts to water and electricity supplies combined with the dangers of accessing food and medical care while under fire are having a devastating effect on residents, and the situation is likely to get worse, fast, if this isn’t addressed,” said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International’s director for Europe and Central Asia.
