Pro-Turkish armed groups continue their violations in Afrin region

ARK News: Pro-Turkish armed groups have been continuing systematically of violating Kurdish citizens' rights as kidnapping, abusing and robbing their property, and encroaching on forests and olive trees, either by cutting or burning them in Afrin region in Kurdistan of Syria.


A group of armed elements In the village of Kokabe, belonging to Afrin city on Sunday stopped the 80-year-old Ali’s father on the main road which leads to Afrin city and the group took over his car, a white Honda, which was loaded with yogurt boxes made of plastic and confiscated by force.

In the Bulbul town, on Sunday, members of the Al-Hamzat faction cut down the oak trees that surrounded the Yaghmur Dada shrine which located north of the village of Zahre. They also spoiled and stole the contents of the shrine. Members of the same faction in the village of Bêkê also rented lands to cattle herders begin from the village of Şingêlê to the village of Bêkê, including the olive fields and vineyards belonging to the Kurds, illegally amounting to $ 1,700.

At the checkpoint of the village of Hasan Dêra belonging to Bulbul town, members of Ahrar al-Sham faction confiscated a flock of cattle (200 heads) belonging to a family of the village, under the pretext of preventing grazing in the mountains and plains surrounding the village, unless they pay tribute. They beat one of the shepherds and his sons and then took them to the security headquarters in the village of Mîdan Ekbas to investigate with them.

In the village of Maşalê belonging to Sharan town, on Sunday, a group of armed elements of the faction, Sultan Murad, attacked the houses of the people in a barbaric manner under the pretext of searching and investigating for sleeping cells of PYD militias, where they attacked one of the villagers his name is Jalal Abdo, and who is 55 years old and hit him with the bottom of weapon after he was trying to prevent them from robbing and stealing gold jewelry from his wife, but they grabbed the bracelets from her hands and catenary from her neck by force and left the family in a pitiful condition.

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.

M. Qadî

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