A statement about the crime of kidnapping and murder of a citizen of Afrin

ARK News: In the context of continuing crimes committed by mercenaries of armed groups against the people of the area of Afrin region in their lives and property, a group of these mercenaries on the thirteenth of May this year on the abduction of three citizens of the Kurds of Afrin are Sharaf Addin Sido and Rashid Khalil and his son the minor Mohammed and demanded a large ransom money to release them, and on May 22, the body of one of them, Rashid Khalil, was found brutally tortured, raising concerns about the fate of the other abductees.

This vicious crime, which is added to the series of these crimes, comes under the shadow of these armed groups with their various names and under the influence and control of the Turkish forces without being bothered by the calls and the many demands to deter these criminal groups and bring them to account and take them out of any interest.

The Kurdish National Council, which strongly condemns this vicious crime and its similarities and condones them, calls on the National Coalition to condemn these crimes and lift their cover from these armed groups, and to work to liberate the abductees and punish the perpetrators. The Council also calls upon the international community, the United Nations and the relevant countries to put an end to the suffering of the Afrin people, to remove the armed forces and gangs from their region, to hand over their administration to their indigenous populations and to provide them with international protection.

27/5/2019
General Secretariat of the Kurdish National Council in Syria

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