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Aux côtés du peuple kurde

Pierre Bance

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André Métayer
Vingt-cinq années aux côtés du peuple kurde
Histoire des Amitiés kurdes de Bretagne (1994-2019)

Pourquoi s’intéresser aux Kurdes ? Pour le présent, ce ne sont pas les Kurdes par eux-mêmes qui intéressent, mais leur révolution au Rojava. Ainsi depuis sept ou huit ans, la cause kurde suscite de la curiosité en France. Encore ne faut-il pas exagérer, cet intérêt n’est souvent que compassionnel, quand il ne s’égare pas dans une exaltation qui risque fort d’être refroidie par la réalité.

Il en est dont l’engagement est plus ancien et dont la durée assure de sa solidité. En des temps où nul ne connaissait le Rojava, où le Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK) était suspecté de stalinisme, bien avant son abandon du marxisme-léninisme et du nationalisme dans les années 2000. Des temps, où Abdullah Öcalan, son leader, était encore libre, avant d’être kidnappé par les services secrets américains et turcs en 1999, puis emprisonné à vie dans une île de la mer de Marmara. C’était en 1994. Un petit groupe venu de Bretagne visite le Kurdistan de Turquie. Parmi eux, André Métayer. Ce qui n’aurait pu être que du tourisme militant va se muer en un engagement sous le coup de l’émotion. De ses yeux, voir un village détruit par l’armée turque comme le furent quelque quatre mille autres dans ces années de plomb, voir un peuple entier terrorisé dans ses villes et ses campagnes par la violence militaire et policière, bouleversa ces voyageurs qui prirent la résolution de se solidariser avec ces Kurdes qui paraissaient d’éternels vaincus alors qu’ils étaient d’éternels résistants. (...)

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Hasakah’s water crisis may be deadly amid coronavirus outbreak in northeast Syria - North press agency

espite a partial lockdown imposed by the Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria (AANES), no precautionary measures are taken implemented by those collecting water in Syria’s northeastern city of Hasakah.

The Crisis Management Team in Jazira Region announced a total lockdown for 14 days starting on August 6, then extended the curfew for another seven days, which ends on August 27.

Dozens of people of the Khashman neighborhood in the northern countryside of Hasakah queue near a water tank to fill various sized jugs with water, right next to a house where a man recently died of coronavirus, without any commitment to physical distancing measures.

Youssef Hami, a resident of the neighborhood, said that thirst is more difficult than coronavirus.

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▻https://www.france24.com/en/20200825-in-northeast-syria-town-families-say-turkey-cut-their-water

#Covid-19#deuxièmevague#migrant#couvrefeu#migration#eau #syrie#rojava#turquie

Turkey starves Syria’s northeast of water as virus death toll mounts - Al Minitor

Turkey has once again cut water supplies to the Hasakeh region of northeast Syria, and the autonomous administration says Ankara is risking hundreds of thousands of lives in the midst of the pandemic and soaring temperatures to placate Syrians living under Turkish occupation.

▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/turkey-starves-water-syria-northeast-coronavirus-hasakeh.html

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#Covid-19#deuxièmevague#migrant#couvrefeu#migration#eau #syrie#rojava#turquie

First case of Coronavirus appears among residents Syrian Al Hol camp - Save the childreen NGO

After earlier cases of COVID-19 among health workers in Al Hol Camp, the first reported case of COVID-19 of a resident of the camp was confirmed today, Save the Children can reveal, as the number of cases reported across North East Syria rises to over 100.

#Covid-19#Syrie#Rojava#Pandémie#Santé#camp#Al-Hol#migrant#Politique#réfugiés#migration

▻https://www.savethechildren.net/news/first-case-coronavirus-appears-among-residents-syrian-al-hol-camp

119 infected with Covid 19 in NE, Syria - ANHA

The Health Authority in North and East Syria recorded 18 new cases of coronavirus, and thus the number of infections rose to 119, and it also announced that five cases had recovered.

#Covid-19#Syrie#Rojava#Secondevague#Kurdes#Pandémie#migrant#migration

▻https://hawarnews.com/en/haber/119-infected-with-covid-19-in-ne-syria-h18422.html

US Action Against IS Financier Shows Jihadists’ Cash Flow Continues from Turkey - VOA

Camp smuggling

The al-Hol camp also accommodates nearly 60,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from other parts of Syria and some refugees from Iraq. Camp authorities say they have physically separated IS family members from the rest of the camp’s residents.

There are at least two hawala offices that openly conduct business in the non-IS section of the camp, but money often gets smuggled from those offices to IS family members as well, according Thomas McClure, a Syria-based researcher with Rojava Information Center.

“The foreign women aren’t allowed to receive money,” McClure said, “but when they want to receive money, the Syrian and Iraqi people get it from the hawala offices in the Souq [a market in the camp] and give it to them for a cut for smuggling them.”

Some of the IS families reportedly receive outside donations that amount to more than $3,000 a month, while an average family in the camp spends one-tenth of that amount, according to a report published by North Press Agency, a local news site.

Hawala also provides a useful means of sending humanitarian support to IDPs and refugees, say some analysts. While banning them outright is not advised, experts say the business can be regulated in a way that prevents IS access to outside donations.

“The hawala money transfer system is crucial to remain open for the women to be able to purchase what they need for their families,” Anne Speckhard, director of the Washington, D.C.-based International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE), who has visited the al-Hol camp for research, told VOA.

“But it should be regulated so large sums are not transferred,” she added. “Likewise, large sums make it very possible to bribe those receiving the money and those who would smuggle the women out.”

#Covid-19#Syrie#Rojava#Pandémie#Santé#camp#Al-Hol#migrant#Politique#réfugiés#migration

▻https://www.voanews.com/extremism-watch/us-action-against-financier-shows-jihadists-cash-flow-continues-turkey

Health workers in Syrian camp for ISIS families test positive for COVID-19 -Al Monitor
Humanitarians warn that poor conditions in the camp put it at great risk for an outbreak of the virus. These are the first known cases there.

Three health workers tested positive for COVID-19 on Aug. 3, UN spokesperson David Swanson told Al-Monitor.

These are the first known cases of the virus in the camp.

Al-Hol hosts more 65,000 people in a desert area of northeast Syria near the Iraqi border. The mostly women and children in the camp have varying degrees of affiliations with IS. Most of the population is from Iraq and Syria, but there are thousands of foreigners as well. The area is within the territory of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. The Kurdish-led statelet’s Syrian Democratic Forces, who are backed by the United States, hold thousands of IS fighters in detention centers as well as their families in al-Hol and other camps.

The workers who tested positive are Syrian nationals working for the Kurdish Red Crescent humanitarian organization, an autonomous administration official responsible for camps told Al-Monitor. They are now isolating at home and are in “good condition" after testing positive at a hospital in the city of Hasakah, the official said.

#Covid-19#Syrie#Rojava#Pandémie#Santé#camp#Al-Hol#migrant#Politique#réfugiés#migration

▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/al-hol-islamic-state-is-camp-syria-covid-19-coronavirus.html

Coronavirus outbreak in northeast Syria: 12 cases confirmed, bringing total to 66 - North Press Agency

- The Health Authority of the Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria announced 12 coronavirus cases confirmed in the region despite strict measures.

Jiwan Mustafa, head of Health Authority, said in a statement that “12 new coronavirus cases were confirmed on Friday in northeast Syria, bringing the total number to 66.”

Mustafa said that the 12 cases were in the Jazira region, including eight in Qamishli, one in Tel Kochar,and three cases in Raqqa.

#Covid-19#Syrie#Rojava#Secondevague#Kurdes#Pandémie#migrant#migration

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Sixteen thousand security members to control anti-coronavirus curfew in northeast Syria - North Press Agency

A senior Kurdish official in northeast Syria said on Thursday that 16,000 members of the Internal Security Forces (Asayesh) were deployed to control the process of the curfew imposed in the region.

Kan’an Barakat, co-head of Interior Authority, noted that hundreds of checkpoints were added to the entrances of the cities, towns and villages to control the curfew to stop the spread of coronavirus in the region.

“All the Asayesh departments are on alert,” he said.

The Autonomous Administration imposed a full curfew on Thursday in accordance with the increase of the number of the confirmed coronavirus cases to 54 cases in north and east Syria.

#Covid-19#Syrie#Rojava#Secondevague#Couvrefeu#Pandémie#migrant#migration

▻https://npasyria.com/en/blog.php?id_blog=3089&sub_blog=12&name_blog=Sixteen%20thousand%20security%

First COVID-19 cases reported in Syria’s Al-Hol camp - France 24

Three health workers in a displaced persons’ camp in northeastern Syria have contracted the novel coronavirus, the United Nations said Thursday, the first reported infections in the vast tent city.

The Al-Hol camp is home to tens of thousands of people, including the relatives of Islamic State group jihadists.

It is run by the autonomous Kurdish administration that holds most of the northeast and has reported 54 cases of COVID-19 in areas under its control.

“On 3 August, three health workers reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 at the Al-Hol IDP camp,” said a spokesman for the UN Organisation for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

“The contact tracing process is ongoing. As a precautionary measure, only critical staff, with personal protective equipment, are allowed to operate inside the camp,” David Swanson told AFP.

A health official at the camp said the three staff infected work with the Kurdish Red Crescent in Al-Hol.

“We fear that the virus could have spread to camp residents visiting health clinics,” he said, asking not to be identified because he is not authorised to speak to the media on the issue.

#Covid-19#Syrie#Rojava#Pandémie#Santé#camp#Al-Hol#migrant#Politique#réfugiés#migration

▻https://www.france24.com/en/20200806-first-covid-19-cases-reported-in-syria-s-al-hol-camp

Interview: “Social distancing is impossible” – Doctor working in Al-Hol camp on Corona prevention measures - Rojava Information Center

Several humanitarian actors have collectively set up an isolation section inside the camp for possible suspected cases. At the camp’s main gate, a nurse checks anyone entering the camp, controlling the temperature and any potential symptoms. If any symptoms are noticed, the person would be referred to the doctor in the main medical point where we will further diagnose the symptoms and decide about next steps. if they are Corona symptoms, the person will be referred then to the isolation section here. We have a special ambulance to transfer any reported case. Additionally, all employees here must wear protection equipment, masks, and gloves. Sometimes we lack this Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). We also disinfect our medical points twice a day in the morning and at the end of workday.

#Covid-19#Syrie#Rojava#Pandémie#Santé#camp#Al-Hol#migrant#Politique#réfugiés#migration

▻https://rojavainformationcenter.com/2020/08/interview-social-distancing-is-impossible-doctor-working-in

20 new coronavirus cases, one citizen death in North East , Syria - ANHA

The affirmations of the Health Body in North and East Syria came through a statement by the co-chair of the Body, Joan Mustafa, where it was clear that 20 new cases of coronavirus (Covid 19) had been discovered in northern and eastern Syria, and Mustafa added that one of these cases had died in al-Shahba, a man in the sixth decade of age.
Health Authority of Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria announced on Thursday that the number of coronavirus infections reached 54 cases since the outbreak of the pandemic last week.

Juwan Mustafa, head of Health Authority, said four new coronavirus cases confirmed in the last twenty-four hours, bringing the number to 54 cases.

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The latest reason Australia won’t take back citizens detained in Syria’s prisons for IS? Coronavirus - Al Monitor
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne says COVID-19 has further complicated the possibilities of repatriating Australians captured during the war against the Islamic State in Syria.

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Camp#Syrie#Rojava#Kurde#DAESH#Prisonniers#Rapatriement#Australie

▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/07/australia-isis-detainees-syria-coronavirus-covid19.html

CENTCOM: No sign of coronavirus in Syria’s IS prisons as riots raise concern - Al Monitor

Gen. Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie, the top commander of American forces in the Middle East, said today that his command is concerned about recurring uprisings in prisons holding thousands of Islamic State detainees in northeast Syria.

McKenzie also said the United States is “absolutely” concerned about the coronavirus spreading in the prisons, though no signs of an outbreak have yet been detected.

“We believe the best way to reduce the population of those prisons, in all cases, is repatriation,” McKenzie told reporters in a conference call on Tuesday morning.

“We’re working with a variety of nations to achieve that goal. It’s a slow process, but we believe that’s the best path going forward,” the commander said.

#Covid-19#Syrie#Rojava#Pandémie#Prison#camp#Soulèvement#Al-Hol#migrant#Politique#réfugiés#migration

▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/07/centcom-coronavirus-isis-prison-syria-riots-mckenzie.html

Syrian Kurds Alarmed Over UN Security Council Vote on Aid - Voices of America

Kurdish officials in northeast Syria are expressing disappointment following a vote by the United Nations Security Council that failed to address “the deteriorating humanitarian situation” in that part of the war-torn country.

The U.N. Security Council on Saturday approved a resolution authorizing an international program that will deliver aid to the rebel-held northwest Syrian province of Idlib through one border crossing.

However, the majority of the council, including the U.S., wanted to reopen another border crossing with Turkey and a third on Syria’s northeast border with Iraq in order to get aid to an estimated 1.3 million Syrians in need of medical supplies

#Covid-19#Syrie#Rojava#Idlib#Turquie#Frontière#aide_internationale#Politique_internationale#ONU#migrant#migration

▻https://www.voanews.com/extremism-watch/syrian-kurds-alarmed-over-un-security-council-vote-aid

Russia holds key to UN Syria aid operation - The new humanitarian

That means that all aid to the northwest is trucked in from neighbouring Turkey, by both NGOs and the UN. UN agencies have been authorised to bring aid across Syria’s borders without al-Assad’s approval since 2014 by Security Council Resolution 2165 and its latest update, numbered 2504. The resolution allows the UN to use two Turkey-Syria border crossings, Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salameh.

The resolution is set to expire on 10 July, and major powers are still hashing out the details of a possible renewal, which was discussed in the Security Council on Monday. All eyes are on Moscow, as al-Assad’s ally could effectively end UN cross-border aid with a single veto.

#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Rojava#Iraq#Syrie#Frontière#aide_internationale#Politique_internationale#ONU#migrant#migration

▻https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2020/07/01/syria-turkey-aid-un-security-council-decision

Open Letter to the United Nations Security Council on the Syria cross-border resolution - CARE International

The United Nations Security Council has until July 10 to renew the Syria cross-border resolution, which ensures lifesaving UN aid reaches over four million Syrians living in areas outside of the Government of Syria’s control. NGO leaders are calling on the Security Council to renew the resolution for a period of 12 months and to re-authorize UN access to Northeast Syria to ensure vulnerable populations are able to receive the aid they need as humanitarian agencies struggle to scale up and respond to COVID-19.
For more than four million Syrians who live in areas outside of the Government of Syria’s control, the cross-border mechanism is a critical lifeline providing food, shelter, hygiene, and critical medical services. Without it, people will go hungry and will be denied access to critical healthcare services, including those needed to respond to COVID. Simply put, lives will be lost.

#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Rojava#Syrie#Frontièreintérieure#ouverture#Commerce#Aide_humanitaire#ONU#migrant#migration

▻https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/open-letter-united-nations-security-council-syria-cross-border

How to Aid Syria Without Aiding Assad- Foreign Policy

U.N. agencies also failed to fully take advantage of options to move cross-border aid into non-regime areas. The U.N. Security Council created a dedicated mechanism in 2014 which authorizes humanitarian actors to use border crossings to deliver assistance to Syria from Turkey, Iraq, or Jordan without the Assad regime’s approval. This lack of impartiality from certain U.N. agencies in Damascus recently impacted the COVID-19 response. The World Health Organization (WHO) assisted Damascus in February, but did not use cross-border corridors in northwest Syria until late March and delivered equipment in northeast Syria in May only to regime emissaries.

#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Rojava#Iraq#Syrie#Frontière#aide_internationale#Politique_internationale#ONU#migrant#migration

▻https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/24/how-to-aid-syria-without-aiding-assad

Unemployment drives Kurdish refugees back to Rojava - Rudaw

Unemployment exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic has driven many Syrians Kurds in the Kurdistan Region to return to northeast Syria.

Since October 2019, 2,500 Syrians have returned to northeast Syria, also known as Rojava, according to Rashid Hussein of the UNHCR office in Duhok.

#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Iraq#Syrie#Rojava#KRG#Frontière#Crise_migratoire#Déplacés#Economie#Emploi#migrant#migration

▻https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/14062020

As a direct effect of coronavirus on Iraqi kurdistan, Rojava refugees are going back home despite tough conditions there and unstable Syrian Lira. Lack of job opportunities is the main lockdown results. Some say with money of house rent we can live a month there - NBC NEWS

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Over 150 tons of aid dispatched through KRG border to Rojava: Dindar Zebari -Kurdistan 24

he Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Coordinator for International Advocacy, Dindar Zebari, on Tuesday told Kurdistan 24 that over 150 tons of aid have been dispatched to Rojava through the KRG’s border-crossing of Semelka by international aid groups to assist Rojava in its fight with the coronavirus pandemic.

In late April, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report titled, “Syria: Aid Restrictions Hinder Covid-19 Response,” in which it claimed the KRG had imposed restrictions on medical aid being supplied to Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava).

Following the report, Zebari denied the claims, citing several NGOs such as Doctors without Borders and International Medical Corps (IMC) that delivered aid to Rojava.

#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Iraq#Syrie#Rojava#KRG#Frontière#Crise_migratoire#Aide_humanitaire#migrant#migration

▻https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/0eecc327-7254-4eaf-bb55-23932b40e3c6

Semalka crossing opens for returnees from Kurdistan Region of Iraq after three months - North Press Agency

On Wednesday the administration of the Semalka border crossing with Kurdistan Region of Iraq announced that residents of North and East Syria who entered the region for humanitarian or medical reasons are allowed to return to their area.

#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Rojava#Iraq#Syrie#Frontière#ouverture#Commerce#Aide_humanitaire#ONU#migrant#migration

▻https://npasyria.com/en/blog.php?id_blog=2661&sub_blog=12&name_blog=Semalka%20crossing%20opens%20f

Syrian government lifts nightly curfew despite uptick in coronavirus cases - Al Monitor

The Syrian government will do away with the overnight curfew imposed in March despite a surge in reported cases of the coronavirus.

The Syrian Ministry of Health today announced 15 new COVID-19 cases in areas under government control, bringing the total number of cases to 121 and a death toll of four. All of the new cases were among Syrians returning from abroad, including nine from Kuwait. Experts have questioned the regime’s relatively low numbers, but Damascus has denied all charges of a cover-up.

#Covid-19#Syrie#Zone_régime#Idlib#Rojava#Déconfinement#Société_civile

▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/05/syria-coronavirus-curfew-uptick-cases-damascus-idlib.html

US, allies press Russia to allow UN aid to Syria from Iraq - Al Monitor
Though the United States and allied countries are working to convince Russia to reopen a border crossing between Iraq and Syria to UN humanitarian aid, Moscow could not only refuse but block aid through other points.

Yaroubiyah was the principal hub for medical supplies the World Health Organization delivered to the Kurdish-run autonomous administration in the northeast. Its closure has dealt a powerful blow to the fledgling administration’s efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The central government in Damascus is doing little to ease the Kurds’ plight and the WHO has been blasted over its reluctance to engage the Kurds for fear of upsetting Damascus.

#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Rojava#Iraq#Syrie#Frontière#aide_internationale#Russie#Politique_internationale#ONU#migrant#migration

▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/05/us-russia-aid-border-crossing-iraq-humanitarian.html

BCF delivers medical batch of anti-biotics to Syrian Kurdistan amid COVID-19 crisis - Kurdistan 24
The Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF) on Tuesday announced the delivery of a medical batch consisting of anti-inflammatory injections to Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), which has lacked basic necessities to fight the highly contagious COVID-19 disease.

▻https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/dc770d88-a68e-422e-be5e-06f6398cba58

After the United Nations Security Council vote in early May to centralize cross-border deliveries of medical aid into the grips of Damascus, the Yaroubiya border crossing along the Iraqi border, where 1.6 million people were benefiting from the humanitarian assistance coming through it, was scrapped.

#Covid-19#Iraq#KRG#Syrie#Rojava#Aide_médicale#Kurdes#Pandémie#migrant#migration