Afrin... The kidnapping of the Kurds and theft of their crops are daily violations by the pro-Turkish armed groups and factions

ARK News: A Human Rights Organization working to document violations in the Kurdish region of Afrin reported on its main page of Facebook, today, 17.10.2020, that Since the entry of the Turkish forces with armed groups and factions into Afrin, March 2018, and until 08/30/2020, the elements of the armed militias affiliated with the Arab settlers, under the direct direction of the Turkish forces and with the complicity of the Syrian Interim Government and the Syrian National Coalition, intended the process of impoverishing the Kurdish people in the Kurdish region of Afrin, through the destruction of the economic infrastructure, whether commercial, industrial or agricultural, which constitutes the basic income of the Kurdish citizens of Afrin regional.

The Organization added that civil police, accompanied by members of the Sultan Murad militia in the center of Shara township, raided the village of Gabalaka at one o'clock in the afternoon on Thursday 15/10/2020 and searched houses under the pretext of concealing various types of light weapons except for heavy ones (knives - hunting guns - pistols - Machine guns) and kidnapping a number of Kurdish citizens for the purpose of material extortion and collecting ransoms, and taking them to the police station without mentioning the reasons, and their fate is still unknown until now, and they are all of:

1 – Amin Hussein
2 - Nidal Hussein
3- Nadim Hussein
4 - Mustafa Muhammad.

The organization also added that the armed elements of the Siqour Al Shamal faction, "the Syrian National Army", who control a number of villages in the Bulbul township (Sheikh Khourze - Qastal Miqdad - Qarah Gol - Qirta - Belle - Qizilbasha - Ali Jara) and whose number of trees are estimated at about 135-140 thousand of olive trees, and they are plundering and stealing the olive crop completely.

The Organization concluded that armed elements of the Faylaq Al-Sham, who control the Ashkibar village of Afrin city center, reaped the olive harvest for a number of families under the pretext that they did not have real estate data near the village of Qara Tappa, which is estimated to have about 200 olive trees before the start of the season and the ripening of the fruit, and when the people of the village objected to their stealing and looting of the crop, they expelled them from the field and threatened them with kidnapping and seizing their fields.

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