Raqqa… As bread price ups, general strike and popular protests hit Turkish-controlled areas

ARK News.. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that activists have monitored popular a general strike in the areas of Tal Abyad and Slok, which are under the control of Turkish forces and factions of the so called “Peace Spring” in northern Raqqa.

The Observatory added that civilians have closed their shops, while tens of them have gathered in front of the civil councils, protesting the deteriorating living condition and the increase of bread price.

SOHR said that dozens of residents participated in a demonstration in the villages of Bab al-Khair, Jan Tamer and Um Ushba in western rural Sari Kaniye in the areas of the so called “Peace Spring”, protesting the practices of Turkish-backed factions, such as assaulting civilians, looting and burning agricultural crops.

The Observatory also added that factions’ members opened fire on demonstrators to disperse them, injuring two.

Turkish-backed factions continued their violations against the people in the “Peace Spring” areas, as the factions’ members were collecting zakat from farmers and looting the harvest from those residents who did not have official proof of land ownership.

The Observatory concluded Turkish-backed factions confiscated 15 tons of wheat in the village of Jaradi in Sari Kaniye countryside, belonging to a peasant in charge of his dead father’s land on behalf of his bothers.

The factions asked each farmer who harvested his crops to pay the “zakat”, and threatened to confiscate the entire harvest and arrest the land’s owner, if he refused to perform this “due”.

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