Contradictory reports on Syrian Kurds’ massacre / KURDWATCH BERLIN

12.8.2013 – Kurdpress – There are contradictory reports on the massacre of Syrian Kurds by al-Qaeda affiliated group of Jabhat al-Nusra Front.Berlin-based Kurd Watch Human Right Institute denied any massacre conducted in northern Syria Kurdish regions. “The reports over the killing of 450 defenseless women and children around Efrin (a Syrian Kurdish city) worried our colleagues. They visited the region to investigate the issue closely but the documents luckily denied any such massacre has been occurred in the region,” the secretary general of the institute Siamand Hajo told Rudaw.

“We have investigated all received documents and pictures and the final list of the dead and concluded only 30 people were killed in the region, among them both civilians and PYD (Democratic Union Party) members,” he added, accusing pro-Kurdish PYD of cooperating with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

Hajo said PYD is trying to change northern Syria developments in line with its goals. PYD political and media sources, on the contrary, told Kurdpress that they have gathered enough documents and pictures which prove mass killings by Nusra rebels.