On the verge of implosion, Kurdish prisons will release Syrian jihadists

Women and children of jihadists in Al Hol camp in Rojava on June 3, 2019. AP Photo / Baderkhan Ahmad

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After having fought the Islamic State group in Rojava, in northeastern Syria, the Kurds have announced that they are releasing certain Syrian terrorists, “the least dangerous”, held in their prisons.

Last week already, the Kurdish authorities amnestied the Syrian families of the jihadists.

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For the Kurdish authorities, the jihadists and their families are a real burden.

There are tens of thousands of mouths to feed, tens of thousands of people to care for.

So they have to find a solution.

“ 

The Daesh leaders, guilty of violent attacks and bombings, will not be released,”

explains Thomas McClure, a foreign activist with the Kurds in Syria, at the

Rojava

Information Center

.

It is a question of releasing the members of second order Daesh.

Those whose behavior has been exemplary in prison and who no longer represent any danger for society.

These will be released

 ”.

Better manage foreign jihadists

Because Kurdish prisons are on the verge of implosion.

Behind bars are also thousands of foreign jihadists, especially Westerners.

Problem: their countries of origin do not wish to repatriate them, neither them nor their families detained in camps.

“ 

In the camps, like Al Hol, alongside the families of foreign jihadists, there are these Syrian families who have had links or not with Daesh.

And the Al Hol camp is overcrowded,

explains Thomas McClure. 

So the idea is to release these Syrian families so that we can better manage the families of foreign jihadists who represent a greater threat

 ”.

Regularly, mutinies break out in the camps as well as in the prions of Rojava.

However,

the Kurdish authorities

do not specify the date of these releases, which also concern common law detainees.

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