Afrin.. Turkish-backed factions continue kidnaping Kurdish civilian and looting their properties

ARK News: A Human Rights Organization working to document violations in the Kurdish region of Afrin reported on its main page of Facebook today, 19.04.2020, said that armed factions and groups deliberately under the supervision of the Turkish intelligence are creating an atmosphere of intimidation, terror, and insecurity and instability (creating chaos), which lead to demographic change in all sectors.

The Human Rights Organization in Afrin added that Turkish-backed factions continue clamping down on Afrin’s people through thefts and looting public and private properties in Afrin city and countryside, in order to force the civilians to leave their areas as a part of the systematic policy which the factions follow.

The Organization also added that “Samarqand Brigade”, which is in control of Haj Qasma village of Mabata township, blackmails locals in the area through the village’s Mukhtar who invites them to a meeting, then he asks them to pay sums of money in return for protecting their properties.

The Organization made clear that armed group “Shuhadaa Al-Sifirah”, affiliated to the Turkish-backed faction “Sultan Murad”, issued a decision preventing the locals of Deir Siwan village of Shara township from plowing lands and olive fields belonging to their relatives who had been forced to displace from the village after Turkish-backed factions captured it.

The Human Rights Organization in Afrin concluded that the armed group of “Al-Amshat” operating under the banner of “Suleiman Shah” which controls Shiye township in Afrin countryside, arrested a popular singer Saeed Hussein Rajab from Qarmitlq village of Shiye township, then he was released later after paying a sum of money and after he was subjected to brutal torture.

The pro-Turkish armed factions impose royalties and ransoms on Kurdish civilians since their control of Afrin under vague and far-fetched arguments which aims to force the Kurds to leave their homes and devote the demographic change.

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