Explosion without bombs: QSD crying for the world after losing control of the Hul camp

The al-Houl camp is under ISIS detention camp in Syria, is at risk of being controlled by militants, amid several attempts to escape, infiltrate and revolt by detainees, Kurdish general Mazloum Kobani told the Washington Post on Friday, October 4, 2019.

ISIS Women and the Danger of Control

According to Mazloum, women detained in the camps are trying to assert their dominance over the camp, while guards at the Houl camp in eastern Syria are failing to contain the increasing violent behavior of some detainees.

“There is a great danger in the horror, now, our people are able to guard the camp, but because we lack the resources, ISIS is regrouping and reorganizing it in the camp. We cannot control them 100% and the situation is dangerous,” Mazloum said.

The International Sphinx camp in eastern Syria is home to some 70,000 people, most of them women and children displaced by the war against ISIS.

“There are up to 30,000 ISIS loyalists, including the most radical extremists who chose to remain in the dwindling caliphate until the final battle for the village of Baghoz earlier this year,” Mazloum said in a telephone interview to the newspaper from his headquarters in Syria.

An estimated 10,000 of these foreigners came from more than 40 countries who made the trip to join ISIS in Syria, and are among the most extremists abiding by the rules, according to camp officials.

The message of Baghdadi

Tensions in the camp have risen sharply since ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi gave a voice speech last month urging his followers to “tear down the walls” of the camps and prisons housing detainees for release, according to Syrian Defense Forces officials.

Kurdish officials say ISIS women have established Islamic Sharia courts, similar to those at the time of the group’s rule, and impose physical punishment on ordinary camp residents who reject their ideology.

Mazloum said that one of the most important wishes of the QSD is for governments to reduce some of the burden on it by returning their citizens, but most governments refuse to return them.

He said the Kurdish administration needs funding assistance to secure detainees, feed and shelter them, as well as equipment to secure the surrounding area at a time of increasing attempts to escape.

While Mazloum says he believes all those who fled in this way were foreigners, all of whom have been re-arrested, but QSD officials acknowledge that some may have managed to escape undetected.