US-Backed SDF Conscripts Syria Civilians to Fight Against Turkey

 

SDF 'arrest campaign' gathering up young men

by Jason Ditz 

Posted onOctober 26, 2021CategoriesNewsTagsSyria

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), dominated by the Kurdish YPG, have begun a campaign of mass conscription in several cities, many of them Sunni Arab territories that used to be part of the ISIS caliphate.

The SDF is anticipating a new round of fighting against Turkey, and having failed to resist them in the past are now hoping a bunch of conscripts will help them slow an advance.

Upon announcing that they’ll be conscripting all young men capable of using a gun, the scheme turned to setting up checkpoints around cities and just arresting young men en masse and shipping them to a camp around Hasakeh to fight.

This may get the SDF more fighters, but the loyalty of people dragged off the street and forced to fight is certainl6y going to be questionable, and unrest in the cities that were never naturally part of the Syrian Kurdish faction’s territory.

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