Translation by Yusra Ahmed
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime army has urged youth in Hasaka province northeastern Syria to join National Defense forces, a move seeks to bolster the lack in army's manpower.
Activist Osama Mola-Mohammed explained that regime had gone to recruit youth in “recruiting brigades” because it failed to collect enough number of members in its forces from employees, because most of them live in areas out of it’s control, as in Southern countryside which is under the Islamic State’s control, and some neighborhood in Hasaka and Qamishli, which are under the Democratic Union party (PYD) control.
The Syrian army, one of the region's largest, has been over stretched by a Five-year long insurgency where it is battling on several major fronts Islamist rebels and ultra-hardline jihadist militants who have seized large swathes of territory. Many young men have fled the country or find ways to avoid conscription.
Mola-Mohammed says the Syrian regime managed to gather big number of employees for its Self Defense militia in Damascus and countryside, besides Homs, Hama and Aleppo,since most of pople are employees, on contrary to Hasaka, where the majority work in agriculture, trade or outside the country.
Hilal al-Hilal, the regional Assistant Secretary of Baath Party and in-charge of organizing these militias, has arrived at the beginning of this month and requested quick launch of training sessions for these militias, and ordered the Governor of Hasaka to work on that, especially after the power of NDF has been declined.
'Baath Battalions' militia announced early February accepting applications for non-employees, mentioning that registration would carry on till February 11, 2016, in the Youth Office.
The advert mentioned that the recruit would receive a salary of 25,000 Syrian pound, adding 10,000 Syrian pounds as fighting task.
Governor of Hasaka province had called the youth to join brigades of “Self Defense”, mentioning that their duty was to protect the governmental premises and areas liberated by the Syrian regime, but the call did not find enough interest.
A member defected from the national Defense forces talked on condition of anonymity told Zaman Al Wasl that even members were under his supervision, had lost their trust in al-Assad’s regime, which took advantage of the patriotic feeling to recruit more of them to fight against the Democratic Union party in January 2015, following a raid of masked members a centre of PYD and stepped on Abdullah Ocalan.
According to the defected member the troubles was resolved following intervention of the Minister of Defence and Ali Mamlouk, and they sacrificed “Fadi Hantoosh” the most important commander in the NDF and promised to punish all responsible for the conflict. He added that the regime left the NDF members as an easy target to PYD, forgetting their achievement in fighting the Islamic State last Summer.
The Syrian regime distributes its different forces: National Defence Forces (NDF), Baath Brigades, Maghaweer and Sotoro in center of Qamishli which is known as the security square and brigade 154 and dozens of villages in southern East of the city around the brigade. The airport in Qamishli is considered the main access for the regime to the city. The existence of regime has been enforced after Russian invasion.
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime army has urged youth in Hasaka province northeastern Syria to join National Defense forces, a move seeks to bolster the lack in army's manpower.
Activist Osama Mola-Mohammed explained that regime had gone to recruit youth in “recruiting brigades” because it failed to collect enough number of members in its forces from employees, because most of them live in areas out of it’s control, as in Southern countryside which is under the Islamic State’s control, and some neighborhood in Hasaka and Qamishli, which are under the Democratic Union party (PYD) control.
The Syrian army, one of the region's largest, has been over stretched by a Five-year long insurgency where it is battling on several major fronts Islamist rebels and ultra-hardline jihadist militants who have seized large swathes of territory. Many young men have fled the country or find ways to avoid conscription.
Mola-Mohammed says the Syrian regime managed to gather big number of employees for its Self Defense militia in Damascus and countryside, besides Homs, Hama and Aleppo,since most of pople are employees, on contrary to Hasaka, where the majority work in agriculture, trade or outside the country.
Hilal al-Hilal, the regional Assistant Secretary of Baath Party and in-charge of organizing these militias, has arrived at the beginning of this month and requested quick launch of training sessions for these militias, and ordered the Governor of Hasaka to work on that, especially after the power of NDF has been declined.
'Baath Battalions' militia announced early February accepting applications for non-employees, mentioning that registration would carry on till February 11, 2016, in the Youth Office.
The advert mentioned that the recruit would receive a salary of 25,000 Syrian pound, adding 10,000 Syrian pounds as fighting task.
Governor of Hasaka province had called the youth to join brigades of “Self Defense”, mentioning that their duty was to protect the governmental premises and areas liberated by the Syrian regime, but the call did not find enough interest.
A member defected from the national Defense forces talked on condition of anonymity told Zaman Al Wasl that even members were under his supervision, had lost their trust in al-Assad’s regime, which took advantage of the patriotic feeling to recruit more of them to fight against the Democratic Union party in January 2015, following a raid of masked members a centre of PYD and stepped on Abdullah Ocalan.
According to the defected member the troubles was resolved following intervention of the Minister of Defence and Ali Mamlouk, and they sacrificed “Fadi Hantoosh” the most important commander in the NDF and promised to punish all responsible for the conflict. He added that the regime left the NDF members as an easy target to PYD, forgetting their achievement in fighting the Islamic State last Summer.
The Syrian regime distributes its different forces: National Defence Forces (NDF), Baath Brigades, Maghaweer and Sotoro in center of Qamishli which is known as the security square and brigade 154 and dozens of villages in southern East of the city around the brigade. The airport in Qamishli is considered the main access for the regime to the city. The existence of regime has been enforced after Russian invasion.
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