Human Rights Organization calls for the protection of children from Turkish occupation crimes

Dozens of the children of the martyrs and members of the human rights organization for the Jazira region gathered in front of the building of the United Nations High Commission in the city of Qamishlo, to make a statement to public opinion on the occasion of the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of War, which falls on June 4.

They raised placards that read, "Stop the wars," "We want to live in peace," "I miss my father the martyr," and "I miss my home in Afrin and Serêkaniyê/ Ras al-Ain." The statement was read in Arabic by the administrator of the human rights organization of Jazira region, Avin Juma.

The statement touched upon the atrocities that committed against the Syrian children during the decade of the Syrian war, every year and with approaching of the International Day for the Victims of International Day for Innocent that marks on Jun 4^th, every year, the volume of regret, sorrow and pain increases for the violation of international law, both global and humanitarian, at the global level. This statement is Syria. During more than a decade, Syrian children were the ones who paid the biggest bill in this war, which led to basic social complications that will affect the Syrian social fabric for long periods as a result of killing, exodus, after a large number of them lost their families and were targeted by several parties due to the crisis. complex and intertwined politics for several years.

crimes against humanity

The statement highlighted the future dangers that threaten the lives of children, "There are many violations against children that are practiced at levels that constitute crimes against humanity and war crimes, such as forced displacement, which has put hundreds of thousands of children's lives in permanent danger, as they have been exposed for years to the harshest humanitarian conditions, especially with The continued faltering of the political process and the failure of international efforts to find a comprehensive political solution because direct military solutions have led to involvement in grave violations against children in Syria by many conflicting parties with varying percentages from one group to another and the current indicators of the continuation of the crisis, especially those born after 2011 who knew nothing but war conflict and news of death and destruction, and they are still living in fear of new conflicts accompanied by violence, mines, explosive remnants of war or explosive vehicle-borne booby-traps to carry out reprisals in many parts of the country, especially the occupied ones in northern Syria, which has become safe haven for extremist ideology and radical armed groups.

The absence of accountability increased Turkey's crimes

The statement criticized the lack of international accountability, which led to the multiplication of crimes committed by the Turkish occupying state against children, and continued, "This is what we have witnessed from the Turkish state and the armed Syrian opposition factions since the Euphrates Shield, Peace Spring and Olive Branch operations, where they committed atrocities in those areas after the displacement of their people and the effect of change Its demographic, unfortunately, comes from the lack of international accountability for all the international crimes that the Turkish state has committed and is committing in public international law, especially against the child, and the grief that comes from the accumulation of catastrophic consequences resulting from the international crimes committed by the Turkish state against children.

The statement warned that any new Turkish attack on the region would lead to more crimes, and questioned the reasons for the absence of an official international role in these crimes, and between "the Turkish state is still continuing its aggression in north and east Syria and its threat to occupy new parts in these areas."

The statement appealed to the international community to stand up to its international responsibilities, break the silence and transcend the barriers of interests calculations between countries, especially Turkey, and put a decisive end to the suffering of the Syrian people in general and the peoples of north and east Syria in particular, by removing all the results of the Turkish aggression and its occupation in north and east Syria after ending the occupation immediately, because the aggression and occupation as two international crimes have broken all the other causes of international crimes by the Turkish state in north and east Syria, and all of this had catastrophic results on the ground and in the daily reality in a complex and continuous manner, especially with regard to children who are killed, kidnapped and displaced on a daily basis, as well as depriving the living some of them have the right to live in safety, to learn without discrimination, and to accompany their parents freely.”

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ANHA