Afrin.... Russian-Turkish agreements to uproot the Kurds from their lands

Afrin.... Russian-Turkish agreements to uproot the Kurds from their lands

May 03 2021

ARK News... The Human Rights Organization in Afrin said in its report that during the past two days, a warplane “believed to be Russian” targeted a site of armed militias loyal to the Turkish occupation government near the city of Izaz, without receiving information about the material damage to the site or the number of dead, while the Turkish artillery responded with artillery shelling indiscriminately on the areas inhabited by the people of Afrin, who were displaced and forcibly detained, in the area of Shahba and the surrounding villages and some villages of Sherawa, instead of bombing the military sites under the control of the Syrian regime in the towns of Nubil and Zahra.

On the other hand, the Human Rights Organization in Afrin added according to activists that the Syrian regime has treated Kurdish civilians in the areas under its control as hostages and human shields, instead of helping them and transporting them to safe areas. Rather, it imposed an economic blockade and prevented them from going out to fulfill their commercial needs and obtaining foodstuffs from the towns of Nubil and Zahra (No It must be recalled that the armed militias besieged the towns of Nubil and Zahra during the past years 2016-2017 and how the de facto authority represented by the PYD Administration helped them and the smuggling of food and fuel to the two towns via Barade village, and the people of Afrin region are prohibited from entering the city of Aleppo.

The Organization also added that, on Saturday, 01/05/2021, violent artillery shelling by the Turkish occupation forces on the villages of Mayase and Shughanki and the vicinity of Minagh Military Airport took place, and armed clashes occurred between militia members the armed forces loyal to the Turkish occupation government, the “Faylaq Al-Sham” and the militias loyal to the Syrian regime, the “Afrin Liberation Forces,” received reports of a number of dead and wounded from both sides, as well as armed clashes with heavy and medium weapons in the Daghil Bash front west of the city of al-Bab, while according to the Russian-Turkish agreement, the Turkish attack does not target the towns of Nubil and Zahraa, near the battlefield, which are under the control of the military forces of the Syrian regime and the Iranian Shiite militias.

All this aims to uproot the Kurds from their original and neighboring areas to displace them to the south of the city of Aleppo and Raqqa to the desert, with the aim of returning the people of Shahba area, Tal Rif’at, and the surrounding villages, restoring their homes and lands, and working to settle Arabs and Turkmen from the people of Damascus Homs is in the Kurdish areas instead of its original Kurdish population on the Syrian-Turkish-Kurdish borders, with the approval of the Syrian regime.

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