YPG showed its sheer stupidity by attacking SAA in Hasakah, they are getting their arses handed to them in other areas by IS and also in Hasakah right now as some reports indicate, and now they decided to open a new front against SAA which has helped them counter IS. these goons will certainly regret this.
seems I have to explain some simple things to you: SAA positions in Qamshlo like the airport and so on have been allowed to be under their control as an insurance. Like hostages so that the regime won't bomb the crap out of Kurdish cities(hence why regime never bombarded Kurdish areas except some times which they did in Aleppo and Amude). Kurds are not majority in Hasakeh city, around 40%which is a town that is filled with baath loyalists that hates Kurd to their last drop of blood. Last year YPG did even control the train station and went as south as to the Gweran neighbourhood! but where locals ambushed several Kurdish Asayis(police). YPG abandoned those areas and the train station along other areas to just protect Kurdish neighbourhoods, it's not entirely sure why. YPG are in constant battle with IS in and around Jazira canton as the regime and ISIS are drinking tea with eachother. All their focus is against daeh and future plans, they did not start the fight against the regime in hasakeh with good reasons to. but like last year the regime provoked aswell this time. YPG is not powerful enough nor do they have the resources to fight against assad and IS at the same time. And if the killings of civilians won't stop there won't be a reason for YPG to have the regime in hasakeh. alien just reported that there was a bomb attack in one of the regime checkpoints. Now if lets say YPG attacked assad in Qamishlo before the last days events it would lead to costly consequences for Kurds and YPG. In entire Jazira, Efrin, Aleppo as Kurdish towns and cities would be heaviliy bombed aswell. YPG got have several reasons to not provoke this
1.They do not have the resources to fight against several simultaneously
2. It's not worth the loss of civilians,military forces(we can see now happening). Don't forget that the Kurdish areas have been some of the most calm the entire war, why ruin that and force hundred thosuands more to flee from asshit jets?
3. They want international support before conducting such an act like no-fly zones etc
There is no Kurd that supports or likes assad with good reasons to and the fighters would all love to fight against assad but it's not worth the cost. for kurds there is no difference between saddam and assad. same shit. the crapheads have commited the same crimes against Kurds. which I have psoted several times but will post one more time just because of you.
Syrian independence[edit]
Suleiman Abbas ruled the first autonomous Kurdish region in Syria after the fall of Ottoman Empire. The area known at that time as Jazera or Mesopotamia, later was annexed by the Syrian Republic 1946.
Osman Sabri and
Daham Miro along with some Kurdish politicians, founded the
Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria (KDPS) in 1957. The objectives of KDPS were promotion of
Kurdish cultural rights, economic progress and democratic change. KDPS was never legally recognized by the Syrian state and remains an underground organization, especially after a crackdown in 1960 during which several of its leaders were arrested, charged with separatism and imprisoned. After the failure of Syrian political union with
Egypt in 1961, Syria was declared an
Arab Republic in the interim constitution.
Syrian Arab Republic[edit]
Jazira census[edit]
On 23 August 1962, the government conducted a special population census only for the province of
Jazira, which was predominantly Kurdish. As a result, around 120,000 Kurds in Jazira (20% of Syrian Kurds) were stripped of their Syrian citizenship. In fact, the inhabitants had Syrian identity cards and were told to hand them over to the administration for renewal. However, many of those Kurds who submitted their cards received nothing in return. Many were arbitrarily categorized as
ajanib ('aliens'), while others who did not participate in the census were categorised as
maktumin ('unregistered'), an even lower status than the
ajanib; for all intents and purposes, these unregistered Kurds did not exist in the eyes of the state. They could not get jobs, become educated, own property, participate in politics, or even get married. In some cases, classifications varied even within Kurdish families: parents had citizenship but not their children, a child could be a citizen but nor his or her brothers and sisters. Those Kurds who lost their citizenship were often dispossessed of their lands, which were given by the state to Arab settlers.
[31] A media campaign was launched against the Kurds with slogans such as
Save Arabism in Jazira! and
Fight the Kurdish Menace!.
[32]
These policies in the Jazira region coincided with the beginning of
Barzani's
uprising in
Iraqi Kurdistan and discovery of oilfields in the Kurdish inhabited areas of Syria. In June 1963, Syria took part in the
Iraqi military campaign against the Kurds by providing aircraft, armoured vehicles and a force of 6,000 soldiers. Syrian troops crossed the Iraqi border and moved into Kurdish town of
Zakho in pursuit of Barzani's fighters
[33]
Arab cordon[edit]
In 1965, the Syrian government decided to create an Arab cordon (
Hizam Arabi) in the Jazira region along the
Turkish border. The cordon was 300 kilometers long and 10-15 kilometers wide, stretched from the
Iraqi border in the east to
Ras Al-Ain in the west. The implementation of the
Arab cordon plan began in 1973 and
Bedouin Arabs were brought in and resettled in
Kurdish areas. The
toponymy of the area such as village names were Arabized. According to the original plan, some 140,000 Kurds had to be deported to the southern desert near
Al-Raad. Although Kurdish farmers were dispossessed of their lands, they refused to move and give up their houses. Among these Kurdish villagers, those who were designated as alien are not allowed to own property, to repair a crumbling house or to build a new one.
[34]
Newroz protests[edit]
In March 1986, a few thousand Kurds wearing Kurdish costume gathered in the
Kurdish part of
Damascus to celebrate the spring festival of
Newroz. Police warned them that Kurdish dress is prohibited and it fired on the crowd leaving one person dead. Around 40,000 Kurds took part in his funeral in Qamishli. Also in
Afrin, three Kurds were killed during the Newroz demonstrations.
[35]
The
2004 Qamishli uprising refers to the uprising by
Syrian Kurds in the northeastern city of
Qamishli in March 2004. The riots started during a chaotic football match, when some fans of the guest team (Arabs) started raising pictures of
Saddam Hussein, an action that angered the fans of the host team (the Kurds). Both groups began throwing stones at each other, which soon developed to a political conflict as the Arab group raised pictures of Saddam Hussein while the Kurdish group raised the
Flag of Kurdistan. The
Ba'ath Party local office was burned down by Kurdish demonstrators, leading to the security forces reacting. The Syrian army responded quickly, deploying thousands of troops backed by tanks and helicopters, and launching a crack-down. Events climaxed when Kurds in Qamishli toppled a statue of
Hafez al-Assad. At least 30 Kurds were killed as the security services re-took the city.
[1] As a result of the crackdown, thousands of Syrian Kurds fled to Iraqi Kurdistan.
so no kaka stupid, just like it was the regime that started provoking and attacking last year, it was the same this year. last year the regime attacked the exact same time as IS was attacking YPG from Til Hamis, coincidence?