, organizing and piecing together the most slanderous and biased articles with controversial events to feed upon and manipulate ignorant innocent souls. Unfortunately, I don't see many Kurds on steemit to dismantle her biased and anti-Kurdish propaganda. Therefore within this post, I will reveal her lies and misleading information.Her latest article "Separatist Kurds: A History of Human Rights Abuses and Racism Against Arabs" :
Then we have this image :
We then move on to the introduction :
The West has effectively preyed on the Kurds’ internal divisions and has used some factions to fulfill an imperialist goal of dividing and weakening the Near and Middle East. The Kurdish people are diverse, and in recent years, aspects of their culture and customs have been discussed in mainstream media. But the behavior of some of their more corrupt factions must also be addressed.
Separatist Kurdish factions have a vested interest in claiming Arab, Assyrian or Armenian history as their own. However at times when they have failed in that endeavor, they have resorted to destroying any relevant history pertaining to the areas they are trying to claim altogether. In this aspect, they operate in a similar manner to Daesh.
Every time the Kurds failed in an attack against Turkey, they would migrate to Syria and try to claim Syrian land as their own. For instance, they tried to claim the Syrian city of Ayn al Arab, naming it “Kobani/Kobane.” The origin of the name is the word “company,” a reference to a German railway company that built the Konya-Baghdad railway.
Fact is that the city of Kobane has a majority of Kurds living in it. Given this fact and considering the above logic, no Kurdish land is Kurdish, nor is any Syrian land Syrian or Turkish land Turkish. Anyway, the statement failed to mention the name "Ayn Al-Arab" was introduced officially by the Syrian government as part of a broader Arabization effort in the 1980s (same source wiki). Here, this is a good read on restoring names of arabized Kurdish towns from an unbiased source Syria's Kurds restore ancient names to arabized towns.
It’s worth mentioning that the Kurds are not even a majority in the land they claim as theirs in northeast Syria. For example, in the governorate of Al Hasakah, they amount to about 30 to 40 percent of the population. That number has decreased since the outbreak of the current Syrian conflict, as many Kurds have left for European countries.
It's also worth mentioning that in 1949, the French geographers Fevret and Gibert estimated that out of the 155,643 inhabitants of the region there were about 50000 Arabs, 60000 Kurds, a few thousands Jews and Yezidis, the rest being Christians of various denominations.
So the Kurds do constitue a majority in Northeast Syria.
Most of the have fled to Germany, where their numbers are about 1.2 million, a little less than the number of Kurds living in Syria. However, they do not seem concerned about seeking autonomy there. They only seek it in the Middle Eastern countries that have provided them with refuge all of these years – these are the countries they want to stab in the back instead of thanking them for their hospitality.
Amnesty International’s many refutable allegations against the Syrian government and the Syrian Arab Army cannot be taken at face value in the absence of other corroborating reports. In some cases, however, they do report truthfully, such as when they released a report in 2015 accusing the YPG, the militia of Syria’s Kurdish population, of a range of human rights abuses.
Lama Fakih's report was nothing more than another failed attempt at a smear campaign against the kurds like the ones you're doing on your blog. The YPG refuted the allegations two days after :
Sipan Hemo, General Commander of the People's Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the PYD, said on Thursday that the allegations set out by Amnesty International in a report on Tuesday were "not what is happening on the ground" [....] "Now, let me be clear; we have liberated some 1500 Arab villages," said Hemo, in an interview with Kurdish journalist Mutlu Civiroglu. "Some of these villages became war zones between us and ISIS. Battles took days in some villages. I am not saying there has been no harm to those villages. But they are not more than four or five villages. We have 1500 Arab villages liberated and people in them live in peace now. If it was true, why are these 1500 villages still standing?" "Thirty percent of YPG is made up of Arabs," said Hemo. "If allegations in the report were true did these Arabs with us commit those atrocities too? If such things were true, would they fight alongside us in Jazira and Kobane? We believe such reports want to harm our image."
A petition was even lunched on change.org to remove her from amnesty international.
Don't take my word for it, just watch and listen to the reality on the ground :
Guerrilla Fighters of Kurdistan :
A rare look inside the Kurdish rebel movement: PKK, war on all fronts :
Kurds in fight against ISIS, Big Phil's War :
Some Kurds claim that their “Kurdistan” is “multicultural and multi-religious,” which is disingenuous when you consider that those additional cultures consist of people now dwelling amongst a Kurdish majority in lands the Kurds took by force. On September 25th, these minorities were faced with the prospect of casting meaningless votes for the KRG Referendum in Iraq since, even if they all voted “no,” they would nonetheless be outvoted by the Kurdish “yes” majority and as a result would still find themselves subject to a Kurdish government and agenda, if the Iraqi government recognized the referendum.
Your opinions do not constitue as facts. Supposing in your biased opinion that all minorities would vote against Kurdistan doesn't make it true. Even if they did all vote against, I'm not saying you don't have a point there but since when do you advocate minority rights ? I mean minorities in Kurdistan have the right to oppose a Kurdish state but Kurds as a larger minority don't have the right to oppose countries in which they are forcefully part of ? Logic.
I could continue to refute and dismiss any one of your lies backed with proof and common sense but I will conclude my post here :
For more on the Kurds, check out my other posts :
Who are the Kurds ?
What is it like to be a kurd ?
Rojava : a stateless democracy
Brave female Kurdish fighters
Kurdish Independence Referendum
Documentary of the Rojava Revolution : Roza - The Country of two rivers
