Sunday, January 28, 2018

Kurdish Officials Are Accusing Turkey Of Using Napalm In Their Bombing Campaign Around Afrin

Turkish soldiers ride in an armoured personnel carrier (APC) as they patrol in a village near the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay province, Turkey, Jan. 28, 2018.

VOA: Kurds Accuse Turks of Dropping Napalm

Kurdish officials say Turkish forces have been dropping napalm shells in what they describe as indiscriminate bombing of the countryside around Afrin, a Kurdish enclave that's taking the brunt of a Turkish offensive launched a week ago and called, inexplicably, Operation Olive Branch.

"The Turkish army uses the forbidden weapon napalm in Afrin against civilians," Syrian-Kurdish politician Îlham Ehmed tweeted overnight Saturday. The accusation was dismissed by the Turkish military, who say Kurdish propagandists hope to excite international opposition to Turkey.

International law does not prohibit the firing of napalm, a highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs, against military targets, but it does ban it from being unleashed on civilians.

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WNU Editor: The Turkish military has a long history of using brutal tactics when it comes to the Kurds. Nothing would surprise me on what they (the Turkish military) are using in this military operation.

2 comments:

Jay Farquharson said...

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/afrin-turkey-invasion-syria-enclave-kurds-ypg-airstrike-war-civil-a8182266.html%3famp

Robert Fisk, "first on the ground" as ususal.

Anonymous said...

"Kurdistan" has always been a dead end for us. At best, such an endeavor would have been enormously costly with no upside benefit. As such, it was beyond stupid to suggest we were going to raise up a 30,000 strong Kurdish force or whatever. Such a force would've been crushed by Syria, Iran, China, or pretty much whomever wished to do so.

It appears that perhaps the US government has had a meeting with common sense. Regrettable as it may be, the Kurds are on their own. Now where is our Mikhail Gorbachev who can and will negotiate an end to Cold War 2?