Afrin... I prefer to die on the land of parents and grandparents

ARK News… The Human Rights Organization in Afrin said in its report that the families of the kidnapped children in the Shahba area began their conversation with this phrase, saying: We “prefer the death on the land of fathers and grandfathers”.

The organization added that kidnappings are continuing in both Afrin and Shahba area, and all other Kurdish areas under the control of both sides (the Turkish forces and the armed militias loyal to them - the Popular’s Protection Forces (YPG) and the auxiliary forces loyal to the Syrian regime, the Afrin Liberation Forces), despite the difference. The two sides in the media meet the same goals and projects, namely the elimination of the Kurds, their cause and freedom, and the denial of their legitimate national rights.

The organization also added that an Afrin Kurdish family consists of the parents and four children (Yahya Najeeb Muhammad, his wife, and four children, from Chaqmaq Kabir of Rajo town Rajo, appealed human rights and humanitarian organizations put pressure on the de-facto authority represented by the PYD Administration and expose its inhuman practices by violating international laws and covenants that it committed itself to before international bodies and committees, by recovering its young son after he was kidnapped by a group of the YPG. There are three boys, their names are as follows.

1- Muhammad Yahya Muhammad, nicknamed Khamgin Chiya, 20 years old (born in 2001) was kidnapped in 2015 in the Afrin region and he was put like other children in ideological courses and military training in the town center (14 years old during the kidnapping). When the parents visited the offices of the previous de facto authority, the “the PYD Administration,” and the headquarters of the Popular protection forces, they confirmed his presence, but he is forbidden to go out for security reasons and threaten the child if he tries to meet or communicate with his family. He participated in several fights and he wounded two times in the leg, and he is still suffering from an injury in one of the military headquarters in the Shahba area or in the villages of Sherawa.

2- Awaz Yahya Muhammad, 18 years old (born in 2003), was forced to join the ranks of the Popular Protection Forces (YPG) during the year 2019 due to poverty, destitution, the father's inability to secure a living, poor economic conditions and widespread unemployment in the Shahba area, with a monthly salary equivalent to approximately $ 100, but now he receives a salary of 400 thousand Syrian pounds, and they are also preventing them from returning to the Afrin area or going to Aleppo, which costs up to 70 thousand Syrian pounds through smuggling routes.

3- A group of YPG members led by Akef, on Wednesday 03/03/2021, kidnapped the 14-year-old Youssef Yahya Muhammad (born 2007) and took him to the military headquarters in the village of Tal Sosin, near Ahdath prison and Sardam camp, and subjected him to a Political and ideological session, and despite the father's demand for his young son, he receives threats and intimidation from the so-called Akef, where the called Akef lures the children into buying what they want and then recruiting them into the Popular Protection Forces YPG.

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