Turkish military officers assault Syrian child

A Syrian child has been severely beaten by FSA and Turkish military officers in border refugee camp of Reyhanli.
The Syrian child reportedly was reacting to a Turkish refugee officials’ assault to a female member of his kin by setting the Turkish flag in fire. Press, an Arabic-language website wrote that FSA and Turkish military officers had beaten the child. Since the Syrian crisis outbreak, millions of Syrians abandoned their homes and migrated to neighboring countries such as Turkey, which, for its interests, hosted the refugees.

But every day, the news of plights of Syrian refugees is reported from Turkish or Jordanian refugee camps. What the refugees experience in these camps and who is behind the rapes and assaults victimizing these refugees. Reyhanli region in Turkish border was the scene for one of such plights of the Syrian homeless, with a child being a victim.

A camp resident, nicknamed himself Jevdet M for security reasons, told that a Syrian child set the Turkish flag in fire in the main street of Reyhanli camp. He reportedly came to camp with his family after his brother, a leader of rebel fighters, was killed. “Apparently, camp officials approached a female member of the child’s kin, angering him, and drive the child to provoke the anger of Turkish security forces in the camp by setting their flag in fire. Security forces tried to arrest the child, but faced his family’s resistance.

After some grapple, forces arrested the child and beat him before the eyes of his family. This was not the end of the line, since this time FSA forces came to fore and beat the child as well. FSA forces also accused the family of being pro-Assad, and intelligence agents of Syrian government in the camp.

After Turkish and FSA forces condemned the act, FSA acted frantically, and issued a statement condemning setting fire on the Turkish flag. In the statement, they claimed that no child had been assaulted, but that two Syrian young men set Turkish flag in fire, “we do not have any doubt that they were Syrian government agents in the camp.” Thus, FSA had attempted to cover the assault on Syrian child.