Afrin... The continuation of kidnaping and the seize property  of Kurdish citizens by the pro-Turkish armed groups under false pretenses and arguments.

Afrin... The continuation of kidnaping and the seize property of Kurdish citizens by the pro-Turkish armed groups under false pretenses and arguments.

Sep 29 2020

ARK News: A Human Rights Organization working to document violations in the Kurdish region of Afrin reported on its main page of Facebook, on Saturday, 29.09.2020, that with the except that the pro-Turkish factions and groups are carrying out the operation of theft and looting and armed robbery and indiscriminate kidnapping, and seizure of property of residents and logging olive trees, and deliberately under the supervision of the Turkish intelligence through creating an atmosphere of intimidation, terror, and insecurity and instability (creating chaos) in order to displace the remaining Kurdish people.

The Human Rights Organization in Afrin said that the armed elements of the Sultan Suleiman Shah al-Amshat faction, led by Abu Amsha, on Friday evening, on September 25, 2020, kidnapped the Kurdish citizen Rashid Jamil Habash bin Sido and his 18-year-old son, Muhammad Jamil Habash, and took them to the faction's security headquarters without knowing their fate so far due to the son's return to the village and his obtaining a personal card (Kimlik) issued by the Civil Affairs Department in the town center recently, as he was a resident of Afrin for nearly a year and a half and before that he was in Turkey, and the employee of the Civil Affairs Department was also questioned about this and interference in civil affairs.

The Organization added that faction members of al Amshat faction also seized four (skeleton) shops owned by citizen Muhammad Ibrahim Alloush and citizen Ibrahim Hussein Murad, nicknamed the family of (Haski Moradi Bozike), after threatening them and completing the shops to rent to the Arab settlers for the benefit of the faction leader. And the recent seizure of the gas station, and it will be operational for them, starting from the first of next month, 01/10/2020.

The Organization concluded its report that a group of armed militia members, led by Abu Barzan, who are in control of the village of Chama of the Shara township, under the name of the Sultan Murad faction led by Araba Idris, on Monday 28/09/2020 cut down a perennial pine tree in the land of the blacksmith in the center of Shara township, which is estimated to be between 200 - 250 years old and cut down in order to sell it as firewood, noting that it had previously been subjected to cutting its branches several times and in batches, and the weight of its wood is estimated at about 10 tons.

The series of violations continue in the Afrin region, which was controlled by Turkey and the armed factions, March 18, 2018, and organized chaos has spread in light of the poor security conditions and a large number of killings, kidnappings, and arrests, not to mention the looting and resettling Arab settlers coming from Syrian provinces for demographic change.






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