BACKGROUND:
Why the Kurdish YPG assassinated
#Assyrian leader David Jendo in
#Hasakah.
David Jendo was co-leader of the Khabur Guards, an Assyrian force that assumed responsibility for protecting the 35 Assyrian villages along the Khabur River in Hasakah district after the outbreak of the
#Syrian civil war.
The YPG repeatedly sought to persuade Jendo and his colleague Elias Nasser to place their force under YPG command. Both men refused.
On April 22, 2015 shortly after 11:00 p.m., Jendo and Nasser arrived at Nasser’s home, where they were confronted by five YPG members demanding to speak with them. They claimed an urgent and secret security meeting had been called and insisted the two men accompany them.
It was a trap.
En route to the supposed meeting, the assailants stopped the car in a rural area and executed David Jendo in cold blood. The shot meant to kill Elias Nasser struck him in the throat; he collapsed forward, appearing dead.
Believing both men had been killed, the assailants fled the scene. Nasser, however, was still alive. He managed to crawl to a main road, where he was picked up by a passing vehicle and rushed to a hospital in Qamishli.
Assuming there were no survivors, the
#YPG launched a disinformation campaign, blaming the disappearance on ISIS. In the days that followed, two pro-ISIS Twitter accounts claimed responsibility for the attack.
Lying in a
#Qamishli hospital, unable to speak due to bullet wounds to his face and chest, Elias Nasser communicated in writing to visitors that his attackers were members of the YPG. The YPG then changed its approach and issued a statement claiming that its members had acted on their own.
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