Afrin … Kidnapping for demanding ransom and looting are daily practices against the indigenous people by the pro-Turkish factions

ARK News: A Human Rights Organization working to document violations in the Kurdish region of Afrin reported on its main page of Facebook today, 29.12.2019, that militias of armed groups affiliated to Turkey continue by cracking down on Kurdish citizens in the Kurdish region of Afrin and the implementation of the political and military agendas in terms of the ethnic cleansing of Kurds and forcing residents to leave in order to make a demographic change.

The Human Rights Organization in Afrin said that with the except that those militias carrying out the operation of theft, looting, armed robbery, indiscriminate kidnapping, seizure of property of residents, logging olive trees, imposing royalties, they deliberately under the supervision of the Turkish intelligence through creating an atmosphere of intimidation, terror, and insecurity and instability (creating chaos).

The Human Rights Organization in Afrin said yesterday that the armed militias of the Sultan Suleiman Shah faction led by Mohammad Al-Jassim, nicknamed Abu Amsha, on Saturday, 28.12.2019, informed each family in Chaqala villages of Shiye town amount of 10,000 SP monthly in favor of the faction that control the village as a kind of financial royalty under the threat of beatings, imprisonment or physical liquidation, except for the ransom they receive as a result of the random kidnapping of citizens and the looting and robbery that they are carrying out continuously.

The Organization added that in Afrin city center, on December 26, 2019, members of the Turkish Political Security and Intelligence Service kidnapped the engineer, Walid Hasan (a member of the Omar Hassan Fatike family) from the residents of Mamola village of Rajo town, an employee of the Transportation Department in the local council of Afrin city - the Traffic Department - while he was in administration and he was taken to an unknown destination without mentioning the reasons so far. The organization said that on Sunday 29/12/2019, the security forces, along with the Turkish intelligence services, kidnapped two engineers and one of the employees at the headquarter, and they are:

1 - Engineer Hamid Musa
2 - Engineer Zakwan Hassan
3 - Bangina, who is an employee of the local council of the city of Afrin and taken to an unknown destination without knowing their fate.

The Organization mentioned in its report that, on Sunday afternoon, December 29, 2019, armed elements belonging to the Waqqas Brigade, who controlled the village of Anqale of Shiye town, kidnapped a number of citizens of the village, most of them young men, and took them to an unknown destination, asking their families for a financial ransom of 10 thousand dollars In order to release them, they are:

1 - Ibrahim Shukri Alloush, 17 years old
2 - Hassan Shukri Alloush, 19 years old
3 - Aref Muhammad Shukri, 23 years old
4 - Riyadh Ali, 17 years old
5 - Nazhmi Khalil Ahmed, 18 years old
6 - Izzat Muhammad Omar, 17 years old
7 - Marwan Anwar Hasan, 17 years old
8 _ Azad Hasan, 23 years old
9 - Aref Kamal Abiado, 36 years old
10 - Nihad Nash’at Bakir, 55 years old

The series of violations continues 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 the 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 .

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