The Turkish-backed factions’ continued violations and clashes between each other’s raise the state of discontent among residents of Afrin region

ARK News: The Turkish-backed factions still raising the state of lawlessness in the areas under their control, where rife weapons in possession of the members pose a threat over the residents, emerges with the first hassle between each other’s, which turns the area into a real battlefield.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the residents’ discontent due to clashes between the factions of al-Sharqiyah and Ahrar Al-Sham using individual weapons and machineguns, in Jenderes area in Afrin countryside north of Aleppo.

On December 16, the SOHR said that elements of the Turkish-backed faction Al “Hamzat” continue the search for antiquities in “Coqê” village of Mabata town, where since the beginning of last December, the faction has been digging several sites in the area, including the shrine of “Sheikh Jamal al-Din” located between Coqê and Kokane villages, the sources added that the faction moved several bags whose contents were not known until the moment to the city of Afrin, as part of the continued distortion of the Syrian civilization by the factions through stilling and distorting the archaeological sites.

The Syrian Observatory published yesterday, that elements of the Turkish-backed factions continue their violations against the people of Afrin region by restricting farmers to pay financial bribes, and in the context of that, sources informed the “Syrian Observatory” that the Turkish-backed “Siqour Al-Shamal Brigade” restrict the people of Sheikh Xorze village in Bulbul town of Afrin countryside, for refusing to pay bribes and a share of the olive crop.

On December 12, The Syrian Observatory reported that the Ankara-backed factions continue their abuses of kidnapping, arrest, theft, looting and of the remaining residents of Afrin region, as part of a systematic policy to push civilians out of their areas, where a group of “Al-Sham” Corps arrested a citizen In Shara town, accused of “cutting trees” after had been arrested more than once in previous periods and released in exchange for money.

The Syrian Observatory also reported that militias of the factions forced about 20 civilians of agricultural tractors in Mabata town to till large areas in the plain of Amara village in preparation for planting grain for the benefit of the factions, the sources added that the factions did not pay civilians the wages of tillage or even the price of fuel.

The series of violations continue in Afrin region, which was controlled by Turkey and the armed factions, March 18, 2018, and organized chaos has spread in light of the poor security conditions and a large number of killings, kidnappings, and arrests, not to mention the looting of agricultural crops and the cutting of fruit and olives trees for firewood, which aims to demographic change.

Source: SOHR

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