Over 12,000 civilians in the Syrian town of Kobane are likely facing “massacre” at the hands of ISIS (ISIL) UN secretary general’s special envoy Staffan de Mistura told press in Geneva Friday.
“We know what ISIS is capable of doing when they take over a city,” de Mistura said.
He compared the threat facing Kobane to a “humanitarian catastrophe” on the same scale as those at Srebrenica, Vukovar and Rwanda.
“If Kobane falls, there will be close to 400 km of the Turkish border to be under the control of Isis. And what will be next? Other villages? Aleppo?” he asked.
ISIS has already taken more than a third of Kobane, Reuters reported on Thursday. The group’s black flag now visible from Turkey.