Afrin: Violations of armed groups and settlers, the moral and the good conscience

ARK News… The Human Rights Organization in Afrin said that the barbaric behavior and hostile attitudes by the settlers (most of whom are armed) have increased in Afrin and its environs towards the Kurdish citizens, under the direction of the Turkish intelligence and with the complicity of the leaders and elements of the armed militias, the Free Syrian National Army - military and civil police) with the aim of spreading terror and fear in their hearts and forcing them to leave, and to try to limit the return of the forcibly displaced people, who are detained in Shahba and Aleppo, especially after the arrival of more than 250 families during the past month and until today.

The organization also said that the settler called Suhaib Salem Hamama, known as Abu Othman, hails from Kafr Aleppo, works as a servant in the Ibrahim Al-Khalil Mosque in Rajo town, on Friday, May 21, 2021, uttered profanity inappropriate to a religious and mystical man, and threatened citizen Riyad Bakr, from the village of Haj Khalil of Rajo town, who owns the shoe store in the middle of the town’s main market, because of his demand for the value of the goods that the settler bought in debt just before Eid al-Fitr, promising him to pay the amount after the Eid, it turned into rhetoric and a quarrel in front of the eyes of the owners of the neighboring shops, and by virtue of not accepting and tolerating injustice. One of the displaced people who ran a shoe store intervened in defense of the citizen Riyad and expelled the abusive servant, and urged him to pay off the debt and apologize instead of direct insults.

The organization added, saying: Here we must thank and appreciate the position of the honorable and elite who do not accept injustice and insults and all who defend the indigenous Kurdish population with the inhuman acts and practices they encounter by the Turkish forces, armed militias, and settlers.

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