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MADAyuMadyan – (RT. Published
Ogos 20, 2013) Kurdistan Iraq 'menetapkan kuota' untuk mengekang aliran besar
pelarian Syria. Rantau Kurdis Iraq telah menubuhkan kuota kemasukan 3,000
pelarian sehari dalam usaha untuk menangani kemasukan besar Kurdis Syria yang
terus melarikan diri ke Iraq, mencari perlindungan daripada keganasan yang
semakin meningkat di tanah air mereka, menurut agensi bantuan.
Sekitar
30,000 Syria, majoriti dipercayai Kurdis, telah melarikan diri ke utara Iraq
sejak Khamis lepas, perlindungan agensi UNHCR PBB melaporkan pada hari Selasa. “Ini
baru penghijrahan dari Syria adalah antara yang terbesar” dilihat semasa
konflik yang sedang berlaku di Syria, tambah agensi itu.
“Sehingga
pagi ini, lagi 2,000-3,000 orang dilaporkan menunggu dekat dengan sebelah sempadan
Syria, dan diharapkan untuk menyeberangi hari ini,” kata jurucakap pertubuhan
itu, Dan McNorton kepada pemberita.
Agensi-agensi
bantuan antarabangsa dan pihak berkuasa Kurdis Iraq telah menyertai usaha untuk
menyediakan beribu-ribu orang - yang datang dari Syria letih dan kering -
dengan perlindungan dari matahari dan haba dan pada keperluan asas yang kurangnya
sebelum mereka boleh diangkut dari sempadan ke kem-kem pelarian atau
ditempatkan dengan saudara-mara, atau di masjid.
Walau
bagaimanapun, seperti kemasukan tidak perlahan, kerajaan Kurdistan telah
memperkenalkan kuota harian bagi pelarian dibenarkan di rantau ini.
“Hari
ini mereka akan membolehkan 3,000 orang, tetapi hari ini kuota yang sama 3,000
ditubuhkan tetapi, pada akhir hari, 5,000 pelarian telah dibenarkan
menyeberang,” Pertubuhan Antarabangsa Jumbe Omari Jumbe bagi Migrasi (IOM)
berkata, sebagai dinyatakan oleh Reuters.
Agensi
itu juga menyebut dari seorang diplomat Barat di Geneva, yang berkata ia tidak
jelas berapa banyak lagi pelarian mungkin dalam perjalanan mereka. “Kami tidak
pasti sama ada terdapat dasar kuota sebenar atau sama ada ia adalah keupayaan
praktikal untuk menyerap mereka,” kata sumber itu.
Beribu-ribu
orang Kurdis Syria - yang merupakan etnik minoriti terbesar di negara ini -
telah dicurahkan ke jiran Iraq cuba untuk melarikan diri dari keganasan kejam
dan ketegangan antara militia Kurdis dan kumpulan anti-kerajaan Islam, yang
sedang mencari untuk mewujudkan sebuah negara Islam di wilayah Kurdis di Utara
Syria .
Keadaan
keselamatan di rantau ini masih sangat-sangat tegang, wartawan Kurdish Ibragim
Musallem memberitahu RT.
“Islam
yang mula kempen terhadap orang Kurdis yang enggan untuk menyertai barisan mereka.
Mereka pembersihan kaatas etnik Kurdis. Bandar Tel Abyad telah menyaksikan
operasi pembersihan etnik sejak Julai 20, apabila militan melancarkan serangan
terhadap kampung Kurdis mengatakan ahli-ahli Parti Pekerja Kurdistan 'telah
bersembunyi di situ, “katanya.
Dalam
pusingan terbaru keganasan yang semakin meningkat yang telah meninggalkan
ratusan yang mati, militia Kurdis bertempur dengan kumpulan pemberontak Al ‘Qaeda
berkaitan di wilayah Al ‘Hasakah, Balai Cerap Syria bagi Hak Asasi Manusia
laporan pada Selasa.
Selain
itu, di bandar Kafar Saghir di wilayah Aleppo, “ISIS dan Al ‘Nusra menahan
malam tadi lebih daripada 30 orang awam Kurdis Syria,” organisasi yang
berpangkalan di UK yang dinyatakan di halaman Facebook. 4 daripada tawanan
kemudiannya dibebaskan setelah “mengalami penyeksaan badan,” kumpulan hak asasi
berkata, memetik dari aktivis tempatan.
“Dalam
beberapa hari lepas, perhatian masyarakat antarabangsa telah dipaksa untuk
kawasan utara-timur Syria penduduk terutamanya oleh Kurdis dari mana aliran
pelarian menuju ke Iraq Kurdistan. Beribu-ribu orang, termasuk ramai wanita dan
kanak-kanak, meninggalkan rumah mereka, melarikan diri dari kekejaman militan
dari kumpulan pengganas Jabhat Al ‘Nusra dan Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant, “Kementerian
Luar Rusia berkata dalam satu kenyataan yang disiarkan pada laman web.
Moscow
menyuarakan kebimbangan yang serius terhadap keadaan pelarian yang semakin
meningkat.
“Rusia
memberi perhatian serius untuk membantu semua rakyat Syria yang terlibat,
termasuk pelarian di negara-negara jiran. Kami tidak membahagikan mereka oleh
hubungan etnik atau agama. Pertolongan Kami pergi ke semua tanpa pengecualian, “kata
kementerian itu berkata.
Iraq’s
Kurdistan ‘sets quota’ to stem massive stream of Syrian refugees. The Iraqi
Kurdish region has set up an entry quota of 3,000 refugees a day in a move to
cope with a huge influx of Syrian Kurds who keep fleeing to Iraq, seeking
shelter from escalating violence in their homeland, according to aid agencies.
Around
30,000 Syrians, the vast majority believed to be Kurds, have fled to northern
Iraq since last Thursday, UN refuge agency UNHCR reported on Tuesday. “This new
exodus from Syria is among the largest” seen during the ongoing conflict in
Syria, the agency added.
“As
of this morning, a further 2,000-3,000 people were reported waiting close to
the Syrian side of the border, and expected to cross today,” the organization’s
spokesman, Dan McNorton told reporters.
International
aid agencies and the Iraqi Kurdish authorities have joined efforts to provide
thousands of people – who arrive from Syria exhausted and dehydrated - with
shelter from the sun and heat and at least basic necessities before they can be
transported from the border to refugee camps or housed with relatives, or in
mosques.
However,
as the influx is not slowing down, the Kurdistan government has introduced a
daily quota for refugees allowed in the region.
“Today
they will allow 3,000 persons in, but yesterday a similar quota of 3,000 was
set but, at the end of the day, 5,000 refugees were allowed to cross,” Jumbe
Omari Jumbe of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said, as
cited by Reuters.
The
agency also quotes a Western diplomat in Geneva, who said it was not clear how
many more refugees might be on their way. “We are not sure whether there is an
actual quota policy or whether it is a practical ability to absorb them,” the
source added.
Thousands
of Syrian Kurds – who constitute the country’s largest ethnic minority - have
poured into neighboring Iraq trying to escape brutal violence and tensions
between the Kurdish militia and Islamist anti-government groups, who are
seeking to create an Islamic state on Kurdish territory in Northern Syria.
The
security situation in the region remains very tense, Kurdish journalist Ibragim
Musallem told RT.
“Islamists
began a campaign against the Kurds who are refusing to join their ranks. They
are ethnically cleansing Kurds. The town of Tel Abyad has seen ethnic cleansing
operations since July 20, when militants launched attacks against Kurdish
villages saying members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party were hiding there,” he
stated.
In
the latest round of escalating violence that has already left hundreds dead,
Kurdish militias battled with Al-Qaeda-linked rebel groups in Al-Hasakah
province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports on Tuesday.
Also,
in the town of Kafar Saghir in Aleppo province, “the ISIS and al-Nusra detained
last night more than 30 Syrian Kurdish civilians,” the UK-based organization
stated on its Facebook page. Four of the captives were later released having
“suffered from bodily torture,” the rights group said, citing local activists.
“In
the past several days, the attention of the international community has been
compelled to the north-eastern regions of Syria populated mainly by Kurds from
where the flow of refugees is heading to Iraqi Kurdistan. Thousands of people,
including many women and children, are abandoning their homes, fleeing the
atrocities of militants from the terrorist groups Jabhat al-Nusra and the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," the Russian Foreign Ministry said
in a statement published on its website.
Moscow
voiced serious concern over the escalating refugee situation.
“Russia
pays serious attention to helping all affected Syrian citizens, including
refugees in neighboring countries. We do not divide them by ethnic or religious
affiliation. Our aid goes to all without exception," the ministry pointed
out.