Pelarian Syria, melarikan diri keganasan di negara mereka, menunggu untuk menyeberangi sempadan ke wilayah Kurdis autonomi di utara Iraq, 19 Ogos 2013 (Syrian refugees, fleeing the violence in their country, wait to cross the border into the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, August 19, 2013 (Reuters/Azad Lashkari – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
SitiWanMahani - (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.
