Afrin ... Armed groups kidnap Kurdish citizens for extortion and ransom

Afrin ... Armed groups kidnap Kurdish citizens for extortion and ransom

Sep 03 2018

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ARK News: Al-Hamzat group belonging to the Syrian interim government kidnapped, Amal Omar Hussein on Saturday from Al Ashrafia neighborhood and another armed group arrested three Kurdish citizens, on Saturday, in the neighborhood of Mahmudiya in Afrin Kurdish city Kurdistan, all of whom were tortured to ask for ransom for release, and their fate is still unknown.
“Al-Hamzat group arrested on Saturday, Amal Omar Hussein in the neighborhood of Mahmudiya, Afrin city, and she has been subjected to severe torture and her fate is unknown so far". A special source from Afrin city told to ARK News”
“An armed group kidnapped three Kurdish citizens, on Saturday, in Mahmudiya neighborhood of Afrin, they are Khalil Mohammed Khalil, Ayman Hamdoush and a third person named Izo from a thread shop and took them to an unknown destination. The purpose for their kidnapping is to ask for ransom in exchange for their release”, the same source told.
This is not the first time that the armed factions and groups have arrested and kidnapped Kurds for ransom purposes in exchange for their release, and that these groups do not distinguish between a man and a woman from cases of kidnapping and killing, such as the case of Sultana Nasro from the village of Brad in Shirawa area, she had exposed to torture and robbery with her husband, and then, they had been murdered, and another girl from the village of Alke , in Sharan area , who was exposed to live bullets and killed more than a month ago.
It is noteworthy that the pro-Turkish army factions, which participated in occupation of the Afrin city, committed dozens of crimes against the people of the city and its countrysides, such as killing, kidnapping, and torture, along with looting and theft, burning crops, and seize the property of citizens, and the destruction of monuments, Murder, and kidnapping for ransom have become a systematic behavior by all armed groups present on the soil of Afrin Kurdistan .

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