19-year-old Mihemed Bozan Xelîl was an ambulance driver at the Kurdish Red Crescent (Heyva Sor a Kurd) when the Turkish state with its SNA proxies invaded Girê Spî (Tal Abyad). While he was on the phone with his father, he was executed extrajudicially by militiamen. Later, they sent a picture of his dead body to his father. The pain for the father, Bozan Xelîl, is still fresh. He tells how his son was cruelly executed by the Turkish-backed militiamen.

"Despite the bombing, he continued to do his duty"

Xelîl reports that the family had to leave Girê Spî because of the bombing, but that his son did not want to leave despite all this and continued his duties as a paramedic. Xelîl recalls: "We went to Ain Issa. But the Turkish jets bombed everywhere. On the way we saw bombed vehicles. The torn bodies of civilians laid in the street. The sky was covered with black clouds. All this made me very sad.

While they were talking on the phone they shot him

The father tells the following about the murder of his son: "We were talking on the phone. He said that clashes were still going on and that some people were hurt, telling that they would take the injured to hospital. At that very moment the shooting began. Suddenly my son was silent; the nurses were screaming. Then the shots came even closer. One of the criminals picked up the phone and said, 'I killed the boy and two nurses. At that moment, I experienced an indescribable pain.

The execution took place on 13 October. The Syrian Human Rights Observatory (SOHR) reported on 25 October that the three paramedics had been thrown into the sewers near Silûk after they had been murdered. The father continued: "Everyone knows who is behind these massacres. For the Turkish state, the killing of civilians has become routine."

In search of the body of his son

Xelîl tried to contact the perpetrators via his son's telephone in order to obtain the body. But instead of the corpse, the murderers sent him a picture of his son’s body covered in blood. A few weeks ago, the son was declared a martyr by the Assembly of Martyrs’ Families of Kobanê Canton and a funeral service was held without his remains.

An unpunished war crime

This massacre by SNA mercenaries is a direct violation of the Geneva Convention, which prohibits attacks on civilians, paramedics and aid organizations. At the same time, no prisoners or persons who have surrendered may be threatened or killed. These actions are therefore de facto and de jure war crimes that were carried out under Turkish rule. Nevertheless, no international institution has yet taken up these crimes and initiated appropriate proceedings. So far, it has always been only verbal protest.

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