Witnesses tell the details of the PYD committing the Sheikh Hanan massacre in Afrin

Witnesses tell the details of the PYD committing the Sheikh Hanan massacre in Afrin

Jul 05 2020

ARK News: The family of Sheikh Hanan revealed the details of the martyrdom of the father and son by the militants of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) on this day, the fourth of July 2012.

On the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the massacre of the family of Sheikh Hanan (Al Sheikh Na’asan) by the militants of the PYD, which killed sheikh Hanan Sheikh Hasan and his sons Abdul Rahman and Noraddin.

They said that " group of PYD gunmen raided our house in Afrin city on the middle of the night of July 4, 2012, demanding the brother Bakir, and although the brother Bakir was not present at home, but the PYD militants insisted on violating the sanctity of the house, but the father Sheikh Hanan defended the sanctity of the house and tried to prevent them from entering, the clashes continued until dawn, after which the father Sheikh Hanan and brother Abdul Rahman martyred and the brother Noraddin surrendered himself to the PYD militants, where Noraddin was martyred the next day under torture.

They added that "the PYD soldiers threw the body of the father and brother Abdul Rahman in front of Dersim Hospital in Afrin, and burned the house including the property in Afrin, and we lost all our identity documents from personal identities and other papers"

The massacre of the family of Sheikh Hanan in Afrin by PYD militants is not the first, where PYD militants committed several other massacres, such as the massacre of Burj Abdalo, the massacre of Amouda, the massacre of Till Ghazal, the massacre of Al-Badro and other massacres without any deterrent or accounting until this day

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