Syria’s Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) denounced allegations that its combatants had committed war crimes by forcibly displacing people and demolishing homes.
Amnesty International last week accused the YPB of carrying out a “campaign of collective punishment.”
In a statement released on Friday the YPG said,
“The report will contribute greatly to the deepening of ethnic tensions and portrays things as sectarian war between Kurds and Arab. The authors of the report ignore what Daesh (IS) terrorists and others before them in the region did during their defeats in terms of demolition, burning and destruction.”
Syria’s Kurds, who are partly backed by the US, have been one of the most effective groups at combating Islamic State militants in the region.