A new appeal to Amnesty International and human rights defenders have been issued by the PYD (Democratic Union Party) and other organizations.

In the appeal Kurdish political parties, organisations and Community members in exile "call on the International Community to protect the civilians - Kurds, Arabs and other Syrian multi-ethnicities, Assyrians, Armenians, Christians - against the brutal ethnic cleansing attacks taking place against the peacefully co- existing ethnicities in the Kurdish region in Syria".

A detailed account of what has been happening since 17 July 2013 has been attached to appeal. Al-Qaida affiliated armed groups, Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, have launched brutal attacks on Kurdish areas and it neighbourhoods in Tel-Abeyd, Sere kaniye, Til- Aran, Til- Hasil, killing, kidnapping and shelling with heavy weaponry the Kurdish neighbourhoods and calling publically to kill, kidnap and loot Kurds and force them to leave their homes and properties. As a result hundreds of Kurdish civilians have been kidnapped, tortured and their houses have been looted and burned down. These ongoing brutal massacres are scattering targeting all Kurdish civilians in al-Hasaka, Kobani and Afrin areas.
"Since 29 July 2013 two Kurdish towns Til-Aran and Til- Hasil and its villages of Aleppo, - said the appeal -have been under brutal attacks and massacred, 40 innocent Kurdish children, women and elderly people have been murdered and two young men have been beheaded and Kurdish homes have been cruelly looted and destroyed and 250 of civilians have being kept hostage and their fate still unknown. Thousands vulnerable civilians forcibly fled in horror, since then the both towns are under siege and isolated and there are confirmed eye witnesses and evidence reports that both towns civilians have been subjected of ethnic cleansing and massacres by those terrorist armed groups".     

The appeal underlined that "The EU and the US should recognise the Kurdish democratic, secular struggle against the Jihadists Al-Qaida which is a major threat to both the US and the EU. The Kurds and the democratic movement in Syria have successfully managed to administer themselves democratically and peacefully and they have actively sought and contributed to democratic, peaceful change inside Syria. This successful model shows that Kurds are the major potential player for establishing stability and developing democracy in the region. We consider a comprehensive political settlement to be an effective resolution to end the Syrian crisis and its brutal civil war".
The appeal end with an urgent call "to Amnesty International and all Defenders of human rights organisations to condemn these inhuman massacres on Kurdish civilians and call on the international community to protect civilians in Syria".
BACKGROUND:
Til-Aran and Til Hasel are two Kurdish towns 30 KM in East Aleppo, consisting of 40 thousand inhabitants where 90% are kurds, and geographically isolated from Kurdish areas and surrounded by Arab towns and villages. The most of residents are farmers and living peacefully with its neighbourhoods.
Since 10 February 2013, armed groups Jabaht al-Nusra and Islamic state of Iraq and Syria occupied the West part of Telaran, as the clashes between regime forces and those armed groups occurred nearby the Military Research base al-Waha. Those armed groups forced thousands of civilians to leave their houses and properties in pretext that area is military and clashes zone and those thousands of civilians are displaced or fled to another neighbouring towns.
On 29 July 2013, Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic state of Iraq and Syria jihadists publicly threaded both towns’ people to hand in their weapons and follow the Islamic rule or leave their houses after they gave one day ultimatum. When the ultimatum expired, these terrorist groups started brutally attacking civilians and declared publicly the brutal Jihad/ Islamic war, killing and beheading civilians and looting their houses and destroying all properties and insulting women and terrorising children and vulnerable civilians. As result hundreds innocent civilians have been killed and some beheaded publicly and their houses have been looted and destroyed and their families have been kidnapped and taken hostages. Now the both towns are controlled by those barbaric jihadists and those who escaped these inhuman massacres are displaced without any safe shelters.