The Asayesh arrested 5 leaders and 13 other members of PDKS according to information obtained by Rudaw. The five leaders arrested are politburo members Mohammed Esmael, and Nashaat Zaza, and leadership committee members Nafih Abdullah, Abdulkarim Haji, and Salih Jamil.
Rojava Asayesh also arrested Hassan Salih, deputy head of the Kurdish Union Party in Syria (PYKS), on Monday. He was arrested in Qamishli after the funeral of a Peshmerga from Rojava who had died in the Peshmerga's offensive south of Mosul on Sunday and Monday.
Their arrests come two days after Ibrahim Biro, head of the Kurdish National Council (KNC, ENKS), was arrested by the Asayesh in Qamishli.
Biro was released the following day, on Sunday. After his release, he was received by Masoud Barzani, President of Kurdistan Region, on Monday. In their meeting, Barzani condemned his arrest in Rojava and said “this PYD act is against democracy and is killing freedom,” according to a Kurdistan Region Presidency statement.
Barzani and Biro also stressed that “Banning political freedom and arresting politicians by the PYD is ugly and an uncivilized tradition. It’s against the Kurdish struggle and patriotism. This should be prevented and ended,” reads the statement.
After his release, Biro claimed to Rudaw that his arrest was politically motivated. “I think the reason for arresting [me] is our political activities, we as the KNC, our political activities,” he told Rudaw.
He added that he will not give up his work and he will go back to Rojava even if it means risking death.
“I thank Mr. President [Barzani] and everyone who welcomed us,” he said, “But I promise that we will go back to Rojava and continue our work there.”
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/150820162
Below is a very interesting comment:
Wow, just how deranged are they, the PYD?!
Arresting fellow Kurds, instead of focusing on genuine security against Daesh and Assad, what an utter show of treachery against brave and noble old Kurdistan and the rest of the Syrian revolution with unjust arrests like these!
This is perhaps concrete evidence that the PYD is only pretending to fight for Kurds and other Rojava residents, while it is secretly, in reality, working for Assad and his cronies to ethnically displace and slaughter Arabs and other moderate opposition figures under the pretext of fighting Daesh and the other terrorist groups, a strategy similar to the original dictatorships in the Levant, and all that stuff of course, too, then men.
As Mr Barzani has said in this article, "The PYD's actions are ugly and uncivilised tradition. It is against the Kurdish struggle and patriotism. This should be prevented and ended immediately.".
And so then folks, if you truly support the independent, democratic and sovereign state of Kurdistan, then please stand as one against mercenary groups like the PYD, PUK and Gorran, and instead move in your full and wholeheartedly support of the truly patriotic parties who will only fight for independence and prosperity in the Middle East everywhere for the foreseeable future too, then folks.
Right, thanks a lot, guys, a cheers too, then men. Be warned too, then men. Amen. From a Christian who sympathises with the peaceful Muslims.
