HRW report details ISIL rampage in Kobani
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has detailed an atrocious rampage by the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group against civilians in the Syrian border city of Kobani.
The prominent rights group said in a report on Friday that most civilians were killed on the early hours of June 25, when the terrorist group stormed the Kurdish town near the Turkish border.
The report included eyewitness accounts and a series of interviews with the families whose relatives were tortured or killed by ISIL militants in the troubled region.
“Fifteen witnesses, including eight of the wounded, described to the HRW the deliberate killing of civilians by attackers who local authorities and residents identified as [members of] ISIL,” the report said.
The report quoted local residents and witnesses as saying that the militants followed civilians into houses to kill large numbers of family members.
The attackers began shooting civilians as they fled down streets or tried to drive to safety, HRW said, noting that snipers also fired on civilians from rooftops and took dozens of civilians hostage.
Meanwhile, Letta Taylor, a senior terrorism and counter-terrorism researcher at the HRW, said that the militants’ primary aim was to spread terror among the local population.
“Survivors describe an ISIL killing rampage whose main objective was apparently to terrorize local residents,” Taylor said, adding, “By all accounts, this was a planned attack on the civilian population of this area.”
Local Syrian Kurdish authorities say that the assailants used machine guns, assault rifles, grenades and knives to kill the civilians. They estimate that more than 200 civilians, including children, women and elderly individuals, were killed during the ISIL terror campaign across the volatile region.
The rampage ended on June 27, when Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) forces regained full control of the city.
The latest attack came months after ISIL terrorists were driven out of the town by Kurdish forces back in January after about 100 days of fighting.
The ISIL militant group has gained notoriety for its barbarity, heinous atrocities and sacrilegious acts.
The Takfiri terrorist groups control parts of Syria and Iraq, and have been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all religious and ethnic communities.
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