Revolutionary Youth Organization kidnapped a child Girl from Afrin
Yekiti Media
Local sources in the city of Amuda in Syrian Kurdistan reported that the Revolutionary Youth Organization , affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), had abducted 16-year-old Zainab Muhammad Nur al-Din Manan, a displaced person from Afrin, several days ago, in an incident that has sparked widespread concern in local circles.
The girl’s brother and mother appeared in widely circulated videos, in which they appealed to the Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, as well as human rights organizations and child protection agencies, to intervene urgently to return Zainab to her family as soon as possible.
This incident comes in light of previous commitments, as Mazloum Abdi signed an action plan in 2019 with the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, aimed at ending and preventing the recruitment of children under the age of 18 and ensuring they are not involved in military activities.
Observers believe that such incidents are part of a broader pattern aimed, in their view, at recruiting minors and subjecting them to ideological indoctrination programs, in preparation for enlisting them into the party’s ranks.
The girl’s family continues to demand information about her whereabouts and her immediate return, amid growing calls to open an investigation and hold those responsible for the incident accountable.
