Ribal Al-Assad condemns barbaric beheading of Kurdish men and women in Syria
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Syria: Isis Beheads Kurdish Women Soldiers as Battle for Kobani Rages On
IBT
Militants of the Islamic State (also known as Isis) have beheaded seven men and three women in a Syrian Kurdish area west of Kobani, where a key battle between Kurdish forces and jihadists is being fought.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said five Kurdish fighters of which three were women, and four Syrian Arab rebels were killed along with a Kurdish male civilian in a town 14km (8mi) west of Kobani.
The monitoring group said it did not know the reasons behind the beheadings, but told Reuters that Isis "wants to scare people".
The development came as Isis forces are closing in on Kobani, according to Mustafa Denktas, a member of the mayoral council of the Turkish border town of Suruc. He told Bloomberg News that jihadists are "two to three kilometres away from the southeastern tip of Kobani".
US-led coalition warplanes bombed militant positions near the Syrian town, also known as Ayn al-Arab. The Sunni militants launched an attack to take Kobani, which is predominantly Kurdish, causing thousands of civilians to flee their homes into Turkey.
Responding to the new, ODFS Director, Ribal Al-Assad said:
"I am disgusted by the acts of these Islamists, beheading captive soldiers is a crime and those responsible must be held accountable.
Every day we hear further reports of abhorrent atrocities committed by Islamic extremists; the international community must come together and put an end to this - how many more people have to be subjected to the barbaric and unmitigated violence displayed by these animals before something is done to stop them.
I condemn these acts in the strongest possible terms."