The Turkish-backed factions continue their abuses in Afrin by harassing farmers and looting their livelihoods

ARK News: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that members of the Turkish-backed factions continue their violations against the Kurdish people of Afrin north of Aleppo, through restricting clamping down on them to pay bribes, and in this context, sources informed the “Syrian Observatory” that the Turkish-backed “Siqour Al-Shamal Brigade” is clamping down on people of Khourze village in Bulbul Town in Afrin countryside, because they refused to pay bribes and a share of the olive crop.

And the Syrian Observatory published on the 12th of December 2019 that the Turkish-backed factions have been still continuing their violations represented by kidnappings, arrests and looting and pillaging actions against what remained of Afrin’s residents in the north-west of Aleppo, as a part of the systematic strategy to push Kurdish citizens to leave their areas.

In this context, a group of Al-Sham Corps has arrested a citizen in Shara township on the charge of “cutting down trees” after the group arrested him several times before and he was released after paying sums of money.

Another group affiliated to one of the factions has cut down olive trees in the village of Umar Simo in Shara township too, in addition to cutting down more than 80 olive trees in Dargire village in Mabata town, it is noteworthy that the cutting down of trees by the Turkish-backed factions has been increasingly continuing throughout Afrin area.

Meanwhile, sources informed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that members of the factions forced about 20 citizens of those who have tractors in Mabata township to plow large spaces in the plain of Amara village in preparation for planting them with grain for favor of the factions, the sources added that the factions have neither given wages to the citizens nor paid the cost of fuel.

Source: ROHR

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