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PYD arrests members over corruption claims


(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia on Saturday launched an arrest campaign tracking corrupted members and officials of People’s Protection Units(YPG), including a woman within what so-called the “Law of People” in the province of Hasaka, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Saturday.

Saadoun Sino, a Lieutenant in the Syrian Peshmerga, said the arrest campaign had targeted many leaders under accusation of corruption including Lawand Hasaka, mentioning that he had a role besieging the office of Yekiti Party in the town of "Derbassiyeh” January 3, 2013, beside shooting a group of members of the Kurdish National Council in the office using a pistol.

Activist Malaz al-Yusuf confirmed that armed groups of had launched a campaign of raids and arrests in villages in the southern countryside of Qamishli, resulted in arresting 12 prominent local Arab people besides members of the House of the People in the town of Tal Hamis.

Via a telephone conversation, Al-Yusuf confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that the arrest campaign included two men and a woman from the village of al-Naem, who were within the administration team of Komen, a Council belonging to PYD in villages, under accusation of corruption related to explosions and sheltering displaced people by sponsoring them by Komen, to discover their relation to attacks were carried out against the party.

Previously, armed groups belonging to (PYD) had two weeks ago arrested dozens of civilians, including women from the villages of al-Jawalah southern of the town of Qahtaniyah and a woman is still detained and her fate is not known yet.

PYD had 2014 announced formation of self-Administration which has its own military, security bodies besides courts and other institutions similar to official countries in three region: Efrin, Ain al-Arab and Jazeera, then areas of Raqqa and Allepo and Idlib were included.

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