(Reporting by Mohamed al-Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)
Top commander of an Iraqi Yazidi militia said Monday he dissociated his militia from fighting alongside with Iraqi Kurdish and Shiite militias, a statement comes hours after his release from detention by the autonomous government of Northern Iraq.
Haider Shasho, called his followers in Sinjar Mountain to cooperate with Beshmerga in Iraqi Kurdistan to fight the Islamic State at the Iraqi-Syrian border areas.
Arresting Shasho by security forces in Iraqi Kurdistan on 5th April has incited unexpected reactions and media battle at political and social levels between the two main parties in Kurdistan territory “Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Barazani, and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan led by Talabani.”
The spokesman of Kurdistan Territory had the very next day of Shasho’s arresting announced that he was trying to form an illegal military force uncontrolled by the Beshmerga Ministry in Sinjar Area, therefore he was arrested with others of his supporters to be trialed fairly.
However, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan led by Talabani demanded Barazani to free Shasho otherwise he would hold him consequences of such an act.
From his side, Barazani explained that they cannot accept any military forces outside the control of Beshmerga Ministry. He mentioned that Shasho had had external support and fund to conspire and implement a plan in Sinjar.
Sources reported that Haidar Shasho and his father Kassem had with their militia committed massacres against the Arab villages and they abducted women and children beside robbing houses and burning them as a revenge from Arabs after the Islamic State’s withdrawal.
Sources mentioned that Haidar Shasho is a leader in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and his militia is supported by the Iraqi central government and Iran besides that he joined the Militia of popular crowd in Sinjar after the government started paying salaries to his fighters to fight a the Islamic State (ISIS) besides Beshmerga in Sinjar in a battle to regain control on it after its fall under ISIS’s control on 3rd August 2014.
Shasho’s militia was formed in Summer 2014 from fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) who entered Iraq from Syria, and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) came from Hasaka. All that caused suspicion and worries for Iraqi Kurdistan because it was planning to join the area to Northern Iraq.
Zaman Al Wasl
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