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Kurdish man tortured by Syrian Arab rebels
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Syrian rebels take position in a classroom at an
empty school to observe the movement of regime
forces nearby in the Bustan al-Basha district in the
northern city of Aleppo on October 26, 2012. Photo: AFP
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October
30, 2012
ALEPPO, — A Kurdish man tortured by
rebels in northern Syria has died of his wounds on
Monday, a watchdog said, noting that some armed
groups have taken up methods used by the regime of
President Bashar al-Assad.
Khaled Bahjat Hamdu, 37, was captured on Friday
along with scores of other Kurds in the northern
Syrian province of Aleppo (western Kurdistan), near
the village of Hayan, said the Britain-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Hamdu "died from wounds caused by torture inflicted
on him while he was captured by an armed group near
the village of Hayan," it said.
"He was tortured using electricity. He was one of
120 captives released on Sunday, but he was so weak
that the following morning, he died," said
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
"Some of the armed groups are using the regime's
methods of repression," said Abdel Rahman. "We
should not be silent about this."
Syrian rebels clashed with Kurdish militia in Aleppo
on Friday, leaving 30 dead whole more than 200 were
captured, the Observatory said.
The Observatory relies on a countrywide network of
activists and medics in civilian and military
hospitals. It says its tolls take into account
civilian, military,www.ekurd.net
and rebel casualties.
Abdel Rahman said the area northwest of Aleppo is
home to some 600,000 Kurds, and that there are fears
that communal tensions may grow in areas near the
Turkish border.
Over 3 million Kurds live in Syrian Kurdistan
(western Kurdistan), mainly in
the north bordering Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan
region. Syrian Kurds have long sought official
recognition of the Kurdish language and their
culture in Syria.
"In areas where rebels have forced the regime out,
there is a security vacuum. Some of the fighters
don't want democracy at all, they're just warlords
who are taking advantage of the chaos," said Abdel
Rahman.
The head of a UN commission investigating rights
abuses in Syria said in September that both sides to
the conflict were to blame for gross violations of
human rights.
"Gross violations of human rights have grown in
number, in pace and in scale," Paulo Sergio Pinheiro
said in mid-September, adding that President Bashar
al-Assad's regime -- and the rebels, to a lesser
extent -- had committed war crimes.
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