For substantial amount of money, “Islamic State” releases 37 Assyrians
Cross-cutting resources informed SOHR that “Islamic State” released 37 Assyrian detainees, most of them elderly, after mediation by the Arab tribes’ elders in Syrian and Iraq, where they released them for considerable amount of money. The sources confirmed that IS informed the negotiators that all the Assyrians who did not fighter IS are going to be released by the same way.
In October 8, SOHR received a footage shows 3 men wearing “the orange jumpsuit” and kneeling where 3 armed gunmen stand behind them. The three men identified themselves by saying that they are from the villages in the countryside of Tal Tamer in the province of al- Hasakah and that they are “Assyrian Christians”. The footage also 3 bodies wearing “the orange jumpsuit” lying in front of the three men. One of the three men said “there are dozens of us, our destiny is the same like those men if you do not do take appropriate action to release us, help us from the inevitable fate”.
In in addition, SOHR published in May 27, that IS released 2 Assyrian women kidnapped in February 23; the date of IS attack on the Assyrian villages in the countryside of Tal Tamer. The sources confirmed that the two women released as a result of their poor healthy conditions, where they were transported to IS- held areas in Abdul Aziz Mountain as a first stage to take them to areas held by IS before expelling them from Abdul Aziz Mountain area by YPG, backed by al- Khabour Guards Forces, al- Sanadid army affiliated to the governor of al- Jazirah district Hamidi Daham al- Hadi and the Syriac Military Council.
In the second and fourth of March, IS released 24 citizens from the villages of Tal Tamer, where an Assyrian military senior informed SOHR that IS released a man and his wife from the village of Tal Shamira as well as a woman and a child from the village of Tal Koran after the Sharia court of IS issued an order to release them in February 28. The Assyrian military senior confirmed that IS are still detaining a wife of one of those who were released where they asked him to deliver a letter to archbishop, and then come back with a reply to the letter in order to take his wife. In the 23th and 24th of February, IS detained the 24 Assyrians with 200 others from the Assyrian villages in the countryside of Tal Tamer.