American filmmaker follows Yezidi townspeople as they defend and rebuild their communities and face deadly threats of invasion from all sides.
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American filmmaker follows Yezidi townspeople as they defend and rebuild their communities and face deadly threats of invasion from all sides.
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4/19/2022
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May 24, 2022
60sec Update: Turkey Will Invade Rojava This Week, Says Erdogan
Turkey will begin a massive invasion of Rojava starting as early as this week. Last Monday Turkish President Erdogan said that the army is “taking steps regarding the missing parts of the work we started to create a safe zone at a depth of 30 kilometers along with our southern borders.” He is referring to Turkey's last major operation in 2019 in which the Turkish Army took over large swaths of territory. The military operation will likely be launched during a meeting of Turkey's National Security Council (MKG) on Thursday. Turkey's pending invasion of Rojava has implications for Kurds and Yazidis here in Sinjar. Last April, when the Iraqi Army initiated an attack on Sinjar defense forces, it was done in coordination with Turkey's invasion of the Zap and Metina regions of Northern Iraq. The townspeople of Sinjar fear that the Iraqi Army may be timing their military operations with Turkey once again, which would mean possible attacks on the Sinjar defenses. The YBS defense forces of Sinjar also report heightened patrols of Turkish drones throughout this region.
May 20, 2022
60sec Update; Foreign Journalists Freed
This is your 60 Second Update by Radio Kurdistan, May 20, 2022. Today, sources close to Marlene Forster and Matej Kavcic now report that the two foreign journalists who were arrested in Sinjar on April 20 have been allowed to leave Iraq today. Despite the Iraqi government's blanket accusations that the journalists worked with terrorists, followed by an unfounded claim of espionage, the government suddenly released the journalists without any substantiated charges at all. In recent years, Human Rights Watch has documented the Iraqi and the KRG governments' arbitrary use of vaguely worded laws to imprison and intimidate journalists. At the same time, Iraq has failed to investigate beatings and killing of journalists based on the stories they cover. These attacks on journalists have intensified following the October 2019 anti-corruption protests. During these protests, according to Human Rights Watch, security forces used excessive force, including firing live ammunition at protesters, killing at least 544 people and wounding at least an additional 24,000.
May 20, 2022
60sec Update: European Journalists Arrested in Sinjar Get their Day in Court
This is your 60 Second Update by Radio Kurdistan, May 20, 2022. Two european journalists working in Sinjar who have been detained by Iraq since April 20 finally received their day in court this week. On May 15, Slovenian journalist Matej Kavcic met with his lawyer. German journalist Marlene Forster met her lawyer the following day, May 16. Soon thereafter, the website freemarleneandmatej.org reported that each had a court hearing. According to the website, Marlene's hearing revealed that she is currently being investigated for charges of espionage, although no further details are available. There is no information regarding the charges against Matej. Meanwhile, a petition calling for the journalists' release has received over 50,000 signatures.
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