Afrin… The PYD detains the forcibly displaced and makes false promises to them

ARK News… The Human Rights Organization in Afrin said, according to its sources, who reported from inside the Shahba area and the surrounding camps, the renewed mutual artillery shelling between the Turkish occupation forces and the militias loyal to it on one side, and the auxiliary forces, the “Afrin Liberation Forces” loyal to the Syrian regime on the other side, and the landing of several shells near the town of “Bene – Der Jamal” near the Minagh Military Airport “Ocalan Airport previously” and that at 10:30 pm on Wednesday 05/05/2021 without any information about the victims or material damage reported so far.

The organization also said that the cases of kidnapping of minor children and poor living conditions increased as a result of the spread of the phenomenon of unemployment, the scarcity of availability of professional and service work, and the lack of investment projects, except for the presence of some shops run by a number of persons close to the officials of the PYD Administration "de facto authority" , and, as well as, the people, in large measure, expressed complaints and disgust at their poor conditions, and heard the deceptive, repeated promises that inform the liberation of Afrin soon during the second stage of resistance to the age and improving conditions and living conditions, with the exception of the indiscriminate artillery and missile strikes by the Turkish occupation forces and the militias loyal to them, on Shahba area and the surrounding villages and the town of Tal Rif’at, on an almost daily basis, which leads to casualties and inflicts physical and material damage to the displaced who are forcibly detained in the camps, it also prevented them from returning to their homes or going to the city of Aleppo in coordination with the Syrian regime.

The organization reported that an unidentified armed group from the YPG military forces of the PYD Administration, on Friday afternoon 30/04/2021, kidnapped the young Omar Khalil Muhammad, code name called “Agid Sardar,” 32 years old, from a family called (Omar Din) from the people of Ruta village of Mabata town, while he was going to buy something from a shop, is married, lives in the town of Tal Rif’at, and works on an artesian well excavator in the town of Nubil, without any reasons, and was taken to an unknown destination without knowing his fate so far.

The organization added that both the father and his son called (Fayiq - Nizar) were from the village of Hajj Qasima of Mabata town, reside in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, moving between the areas under the control of the de facto authority of the PYD Administration, especially the Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo (Ashrafiya - Sheikh Maqsoud Bustan Al-Basha – Bi’edin - Hayidariya Hulilk - Sheikh Faris) and the town of Tal Rif’at and the villages of Sherawa, with the aim of kidnapping minor children and handing them over to PYD Administration officials, in order to enroll them in military - ideological courses, for a sum of money ranging between 200-300 dollars for every child.

The organization also added that Hassan Ibn Mahmoud Jad’an, 52 years old, nicknamed Shervan Gul, from the village of Masaka of Rajo town, who is considered the first person responsible for the military-ideological courses for the kidnapped children is “New Militants” that is being held at the military headquarters located in Al-Shiqayef- the field of previously throwing weapons, as he is considered one of the advanced cadres in the PKK and its Syrian branch the (PYD). Hasan spent more than 23 years of his life in the Qandil Mountains, and he has good relations with the Syrian security branches, based on a special recommendation from one of the leaders of the Qandil Mountains, “Duran Kalkan,” noting that he wanders a lot between the neighborhoods of - Bustan al-Basha - Sheikh Maqsoud - Ashrafiya, accompanied by the children of the course training sometimes, luring them with money and entertaining themselves in suspicious, immoral places.

The organization concluded its report by saying: The Asayish personnel in the town of Tal Rif’at, during the past month, prevented a family from the resident of Afrin, forcibly displaced people, who are being held in the "Fourth Comin" from leaving and forcing them to stay after preparing their belongings and leaving for outside the town. "It is said that they were heading to the city of Aleppo ”, by shooting over the heads of them, lowering the baggage, and returning them to the Comin.

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