Afrin .. Chauvinistic practices against the Kurds, and the excavation of archaeological sites

ARK News: According to the Human Rights Organization in Afrin in a report yesterday, 6/5/2019, the ARK Media Foundation received a copy of it that the armed factions in the Afrin region of Kurdistan are renting out Kurdish homes for displaced Arabs coming from Idlib in amounts ranging between $ 100 - 300 dollars and are forced to include displaced people with Kurdish families in their homes in Qarmitlq village and also touched on the excavation of archaeological sites for the purpose of extraction of antiquities and piles.

According to the organization's report, armed elements belonging to the Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction at the checkpoint in the village of Amara, in the area of Mabata town, got off the Kurds from the car carrying them to the village, accusing them of dealing with the PYD, beating them brutally, torturing them and interrogating them, but they could not confirm the charge on them and before releasing them, saying to them: As long as you Kurds, we will beat you and insult you.”

The organization added: "In another incident took place in Afrin city center when the local council of Afrin city demanded the need to extract all citizens ID cards (identity – Kimlek), the residents went to the headquarters of the Council to implement these instructions and while the citizens were standing sequentially, came one of the settlers came and enter the headquarters in order to extract the identity, but the policeman prevented him to enter except by role and sequence, then he expressed his annoyance of the policeman, saying to him: Do you think I am Kurdish to stand up and prevent me from Access.”

"On the other hand, some armed elements of Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction expelled a Kurdish family from the house of one of their relatives next to the Ma'aratte roundabout without allowing them to take their own objects and after they objected to their decision because they are occupying the house under a formal contract approved by the local council, they demanded cash amount of 10,000 Syrian pounds to allow them to stay at home.

The Organization also said that "the same elements are taking advantage of the families coming from the province of Idlib as a result of the Russian-Syrian bombing of their homes, they are renting houses that are not inhabited for their own cash amounts ranging from 100 - 300 dollars per month, while the gunmen belonging to the faction of Sultan Suleiman Shah al-Amshat impose on the villagers in the village of Qarmitlq of Shiye town with the power of arms and housing residents from the province of Idlib with them in the same house and housing others in the houses seized by them. The following is a list of Kurdish citizens who seized their homes:


1- Hasan Hasanik.
2- Ahmed Hasanik.
3- Mohammed Bilal.
4- Hussein Haidar.
5- Hanan Chillo.
6- Mohammed Dali Ahmed.
7- Rashid Hussein Ibish.
8- Abdeen Saydo.
9- Bahri Giro.

In Jenderes town several geographical sites are bulldozed in searching for monuments and buried things in order to steal and obliterate the archaeological sites in the region.

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