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Regime, PYD arrest young men for conscription, PYD releases Yekiti leader

Translation by Yusra Ahmed

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime forces have arrested dozens of young men for mandatory military service at the barrier near the roundabout of Zabana village to the East of Qamishli city in the countryside of Hasaka. While the Democratic Union Party did the same where it arrested young men for conscription in areas under their control.

Activist Moahmoud al-Ahmad reported to Zaman Al Wasl that regime forces have arrested dozens of young at the roundabout of the village of Zabana Southern of Qamishli city near the area of troupe 154, he added that the barriers of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) continued arresting young men for conscription to fight against the Islamic State.

The Democratic Union Party has in November 2014 joined the regime in conscripting young men in Qamishli city as it put barriers at entrances of the city and villages of Ras al-Ain, Tal Tamer, al-Derbasiyah, Amouda, Malkiya, Kahtaniyah and others in Northern of the city to implement its decision in conscripting young men aged between 18 and 30 years, under the caption of “Duty of Self Defense” for a period of 6 months might reaches to 9 months.

Also, PYD has released majdal Haj Qassem from Kurdish Yekiti party Saturday evening after 45 days of detention because he rejected conscription of his under-aged son.

In a campaign of the party in the villages of Karinko, Tal-Habash, al-Johariyah in the countryside of Amouda in the end of last May, according to a leader in the Kurdish National Council (KNC).

A member of the European representative of the National Council, Kajal Darwish said to Zaman Al Wasl that the KNC has organised many activities condemning practices of PYD, the Syrian wing of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), especially arresting leaders of the KNC and its supporters, in a set-in took place in the town of Torbet Sebih and Kahtaniyah.

Darwish added that the latest sit-in came after resuming series of activities by the council, as they had stopped for a while due to absence of the council’s leader because of travel to Europe, Russia an Iraq’s Kurdistan, mentioning that the sit-in was called for by the council.

In the same time, the Democratic Union Party continued detention of a group of women and an infant because they returned to their homes in Ras al-Ain after years of displacement accusing them of being families of members of the Free Syrian Army.

PYD had announced in 2014 foundation of the Kurdish Self Administration which has its own military and security systems, courts and institutions similar to the governmental ones in three regions Ain al-Arab, Efrin and al-Jazeera north of Hasaka.

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