Eva Savelsberg is president of the European Center for Kurdish Studies and web journalist for the website www.kurdwatch.org, which is focussing on human rights violation against the Kurds in Syria. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/eva-savelsberg/rss en Religious & Ethnic Groups Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Eva Savelsberg https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2016/02/26/war-is-no-excuse-pyd-deployment-of-child-soldiers https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2016/02/26/war-is-no-excuse-pyd-deployment-of-child-soldiers The PYD and its YPG and YPJ militias regularly, and often forcibly, recruit child soldiers and deploy them to the battlefield, writes Eva Savelsberg. The U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group, which has closely partnered with the PYD, should not allow a war against extremism supersede child rights.