Violations in Afrin, Sari Kaniye and Gire Spi are at the United Nations table

ARK News: representatives of the two Human Rights Organizations in Afrin and the Human Rights Organization in Syria - MAF, on Saturday 14 December 2019, met with the representative of the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria at the United Nations in Mannheim, Germany. Where the representatives of the two organizations touched on the violations against the Kurdish regions, Afrin, Sari Kaniye, and Gire Spi, in Syrian Kurdistan by Turkey and its armed factions.

In a joint statement of the two organizations, it says: A representative of the Human Rights Organization in Afrin, Lam' an Khalil, and a representative of the Human Rights Organization in Syria - MAF Hafiz Abdul Rahman met with the United Nations representative from the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria. During the nearly three-hour meeting, all shapes and forms of systematic violations that were practiced and still practiced by the Turkish military forces and their armed factions in the Kurdish regions of Afrin, Sari Kaniye and Gire Spi were discussed.
The statement continued: The representative of each organization reported on cases: Murder, enforced disappearance, detention, torture leading to murder, kidnapping for ransom, looting, extortion, property confiscation, stealing antiquities, cutting olive trees and burning farms and forests in order to displace the remaining indigenous people, and implement their project aimed at bringing about a comprehensive demographic change in the region by housing tens of thousands of Turkmen and Arab families who were recruited from previous Turkish deals with the Russian mediator at the time.

The joint statement added: The phenomenon of coercion of non-Muslims from the Yezidis and Christians to convert to Islam was also discussed, spreading strict religious ideas through educational curricula similar to those imposed by ISIS in the areas of their control, and practicing all forms of harassment of the indigenous population through the imposition of patterns from behavior far from the heritage of the region reaching to interference with clothing forms.

The statement pointed out: They also provided data on prisons, places of detention and arresting in Afrin, as well as on the number and locations of Afrin displaced people and the areas extending from Gire Spi to Sari Kaniye, touching on their living and health conditions, challenges of securing and communicating their most urgent needs, and the supervising authorities for the management and protection of IDP complexes that.

At the conclusion of the joint statement of the organizations of the Human Rights Organization in Afrin and the Human Rights Organization in Syria - MAF emphasized that the reports included documents and statistics supported by pictures and videos, hoping to include them in the next report of the committee.

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