Within a few days ... settlement of nearly 5,000 Arab families in Afrin

ARK A human rights organization in Kurdish region of Afrin, on Friday, January 31, 2020, documented that during the past few days, nearly 5,000 Arab families coming from Idlib and Aleppo were settled Afrin villages and towns.

The Human Rights Organization in Afrin said in a report read by the ARK Media Foundation: Thousands of Arab families have arrived from conflict areas to the villages and towns of Afrin, according to the statistics are as follows:

Bulbul District: “The number of families reached more than 850 families. As for Sahara township, about 1,850 families and 750 families reached Rajo township, 652 families to Jenderes district, 357 families to Shih district, 470 families to the Mabata township, and 400 families to the Sherawa area. "

Since the start of the military operation in the rural areas of Aleppo and Idlib by the Syrian regime and Russian forces, thousands of families have been displaced to other regions and the Turkish-Syrian border.

The Afrin region has undergone a systematic demographic change, with the settlement of tens of thousands of Arab families in it, since the war began two years ago 2018, and the process continues until today, at the same time, tens of thousands of indigenous Kurds live in the rural areas of Aleppo, which have become known as the Shahba regions, where the PYD is preventing the return of Kurdish families to the area.

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