Arabs and Kurds in Sheikh Maqsood appeal for
urgent help.
(Read here in PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hjJTbOj_agTU5QWllmMkFrSGs/view?usp=sharing )
Dear Prime Minister Cameron, President Obama, Prime
Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Kansler Merkel, United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.
To: president@whitehouse.gov,
Statsministeriet, SyriaCoH-ha@state.gov, Udenrigsministeren Kristian Jensen,
Udenrigsministeriet, infodesk@ohchr.org Cc: Mutu Civiroglu, Nikolaj
Villumsen, Martin Lidegaard, Naser Khader
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From:
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Heine
Stromdahl (h_stromdahl_dk@hotmail.com)
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Sent:
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Saturday, March 12,
2016 8:37:48 PM
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To:
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president@whitehouse.gov
(president@whitehouse.gov); Statsministeriet (stm@stm.dk);
SyriaCoH-ha@state.gov (syriacoh-ha@state.gov); Udenrigsministeren Kristian
Jensen (udenrigsministeren@um.dk); Udenrigsministeriet (um@um.dk);
infodesk@ohchr.org (infodesk@ohchr.org)
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Cc:
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Nikolaj Villumsen
(nikolaj.villumsen@ft.dk); Martin Lidegaard (martin.lidegaard@ft.dk); Naser
Khader (naser.khader@ft.dk)
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Thanks for your commitment to serve as leaders in these difficult times,
we appreciate it.
Apparently, the inhabitants in the Sheikh Maqsood
neighborhood in Aleppo still face incoming fire from ruthless jihadists on a
daily basis. Unless the threat is neutralized, civilians – of Arab, Kurdish and
Assyrian origin - and YPG/YPJ combatants alike will be at risk from falling
mortars, homemade rockets and gas attacks. Arab tribal elders of Sheikh Maqsood
(Şêx Meqsûd in Kurdish) came forward today with a videotaped
request for the international community to stop the massacre
on them.[1]
We (and I know that I speak on behalf of many) are
very concerned and ask you to quickly send urgent military and humanitarian assistance
to the besieged Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians and other ethnicities in Sheikh Maqsood
in Aleppo.
Thanks.
Written by Heine Strømdahl
Math
Teacher, free-lance researcher.
Copenhagen,
Denmark.
3/12/2016
9:00:57 PM
Save Sheikh Maqsood in Aleppo – chemical attacks.
Wednesday, March 09, 2016
Dear Prime Minister Cameron, President Obama, Prime Minister
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Kansler Merkel.
First, I want to thank you for your hard work and
service in your political duties for your respective countries. In particular,
I want to recognize all your efforts in the fight against IS or DAESH.
Secondly, I want to convey my gratitude to all the
dedicated military personnel, who currently are engaged in the fight against IS
– especially the pilots and covert special forces on the ground in Syria and
Iraq.
The people in the Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood
in Aleppo have been under brutal attacks by jihadists for several weeks.
The Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood, which is under the
protection of Kurdish YPG self-defense units, who only have primitive weapons
at their disposal, is a major part of the city of Aleppo. Around 40.000-70.000
persons are said to live there. Although vastly Kurdish, the Sheikh Maqsood
neighborhood has also been shelter for many Arab and Christian IDPs.
Civilians and
YPG/YPJ fighters in Sheikh Maqsood have
been massacred by jihadists, who fire mortars and primitive rockets towards
inhabited neighborhoods. A recent YPG statement states that “The last
massacre committed by these Syrian opposition factions was on Sunday 6 of March
as they shelled the neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsood with more than 80 local made
gas cylinders (hell cannons); tens of residential buildings were destroyed upon
the people, causing the death of 12 civilians, among them children, women and
elders – wounding tens.”
Apparently, it got even worse today. Rêdûr Xelîl,
Spokesperson for the Kurdish YPG, reports about a
chemical attack in Sheikh Maqsood. Casualties and details are
unknown as of this moment.
A growing humanitarian disaster seems to loom in the
horizon. We need to quickly help these besieged
people and the YPG/YPJ forces, so they can defeat the ruthless jihadists, who
don’t care about human life whatsoever. We need to confront Turkey over the
open border, which still provides jihadists plenty of space to move in and out
of Turkey. Confronting Turkey may not be easy or politically convenient but it
has to be done. If you fail to do so, may others quickly rise to their feet and
do it.
If the whole Sheikh Maqsood is overrun by jihadists it
will undoubtedly produce yet another wave of refugees streaming towards the
Turkish-Syrian border. Turkish border guards are known to shoot at civilians
regularly and Amnesty International researcher Andrew Gardner is quoted even
today as saying “Now,
the information we received via Syria doctors is that there are reports of two
or three people being shot every day trying to cross the border irregularly”.
I kindly ask you to consider this and send urgent
military and humanitarian assistance to the besieged Kurds (and the other
ethnicities) in Sheikh Maqsood in Aleppo! It is urgent. Without our
intervention, I fear an impending massacre and a humanitarian disaster.
I give you thanks in advance.
Sincerely yours.
Teacher,
Copenhagen, Denmark.
3/8/2016
6:37:37 PM.
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