Afrin under occupation (186)

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Afrin under occupation (186):

“Mist Ashura” village – property confiscation, forest cutting, a civilian injured by a mine explosion, children injured in Tal Rifaat, and arbitrary arrests

A “legitimacy arbitration committee” was formed with the efforts of “Sheikh Osama Al-Rifai,” the head of the “Syrian Islamic Council – Istanbul” and with the authorization of the militias, to look into the violations and crimes attributed to the so-called “Mohammed Al-Jassem Abu Amsha – the leader of the militia of the Sultan Suleiman Shah Division,” to settle the differences and disputes between him and the “Chamber of Azm” group, this was not for the sake of fairness and redress the grievances of the people of Sheikh Al-Hadid district and its villages, who were the victims of all these crimes.

The committee came out with a document on February 16, 2022 AD, acknowledging that witnesses and complainants were threatened and intimidated, and confirming the substantiation of the “cases” against Abu Amsha, and calling for his dismissal, along with some of his companions, from their duties, which caused a renewed verbal exchange between the disputants, which in turn led to the intervention of the Turkish intelligence, which had the final say – according to local media news – and resolved the matter in favor of his staying and closing the file of complaints against him.

The following are the violations and crimes committed:

= Mist Ashura “Mist’eşûra” village:

It belongs to the Mabata/Maabatli sub-district and is /15/km away from its center, and it consists of about /65/ houses, in which there were about /400/ indigenous Kurdish residents before the occupation used to live, about /35 families = 125 people/ remained, and /10 families = 60 people/ from the recruiters were resettled in.

The village is controlled by the militia of the “Mohammed Al-Fateh Brigade”, which took the house of “Ahmed Aziz” as a military headquarters, and seized the homes of the forcibly displaced and stole their contents, and stole from the rest of the houses supplies, copper utensils, gas cylinders, television screens, tools and electrical and other equipment, transformers and network cables. general electricity.

It seized the building of an olive press for Hajj Mustafa Mustafa, and turned it into a center for firewood trade, and imposed a royalty rate of 50%/ on the production of about /4,5/ thousand olive trees, walnuts, sumac and grapes for forcibly displaced families “Hamoush, Msti Klei, Msti Krei”, and it also imposed a royalty rate of 5-15% on the remaining seasons of the residents.

It also dogged and excavated in historical sites “Qashla – south of the village, Hayrak – east and north of the village” in search of antiquities to steal it, and they cut almost completely the natural oak and coniferous forests in the vicinity of the village “Shaq Driz, Jurn Dodam, cemetery road…”, using heavy machinery for logging and trading.

Also, a Kia pickup car was stolen from “Mohammed Hamo” in December 2020, after he parked it near Dersim Hospital in Afrin, close to an armed checkpoint.

The families were subjected to various types of violations, including kidnapping, arbitrary arrests, torture, material extortion, and other things, and about twenty people were arrested and fines were imposed, including “Abdul Hamid Mustafa son Hajj Mustafa / 40 years old”, who was forcibly disappeared since the summer of 2018 and was released three years later, his taxi was confiscated.

= A landmine exploded in a citizen returning home:

On Monday, February 14, 2022 AD, a landmine from the remnants of the war exploded between the villages of “Soganakeh and Kimareh” – Lelon Mountain / Sherawa, in the citizen “Mustafa Mustafa Arab, 53 years old”, from the city of Afrin, while he was passing through the smuggling routes, where he decided to return from Aleppo to Afrin, due to the closure of all crossings between the two cities by the Turkish occupation on one side, and the Syrian regime on the other side; As he suffered severe injuries that cut his left leg below the knee, and his right hand was badly damaged, he is being treated in a hospital in Aleppo.

= Shelling “Tal Rifaat” and wounding civilians:

On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 AD, and in the context of the exchange of fire between the areas controlled by the Syrian army and the areas of the Turkish occupation, the Turkish army bombed the city of Tal Rifaat, which is crowded with displaced people from Afrin, in the afternoon and in the evening, resulting in material damage, and the injury of a woman and four children, “Newroz Muhammad Chalabi” / 38 / years old, Ibrahim Muhammad Abdo / 6 / years old, Siban Mustafa Bakr / 9 / years old, Ali Abdo / 13 / years old, Zilan Aref Qassem / 8 / years old, from Afrin residents, with varying injuries.

= Arbitrary arrests:

Occupation authorities arrested:

– About a month and a half ago, the citizen “Muhammad Hamo son of (Mohammed – Jafarish), 57 years old, from the village of “Chiya”, who resides in the city of Afrin and works as shop owner in the Ashrafieh neighborhood, was arrested by the “civil police” in Raju, on charges of having relations with the former Autonomous Administration, after reviewing the police headquarters as part of its investigations with about 25 families who submitted complaints and demands to return to their village, which they were displaced from it due to the establishment of a Turkish military base in it since March 2018.

– On 9/2/2022 AD, the citizen “Mahmoud Rashid Abdo” from the village of “Gamrukeh” – Mabata / Ma’batli, residing in the Zaydiyah neighborhood in Afrin, on charges of having a relationship with the former Autonomous Administration; he was released on February 13, 2022 AD, after imposing heavy fines and bribes on him.

– On February 12, 2022 AD, the citizen “Aziz Muhammad Ma’mo / 30 years old” from the village of “Kela” – Bulbul, by the security checkpoint at the entrance to Afrin – Al-Mahmoudia neighborhood, while returning from the city to the village, and was taken to the headquarters of “Al-Siyasiyyah” – Turkish Intelligence”, and his fate is still unknown.

– On February 13, 2022 AD, the 30-year-old Nechirvan Amin Manan from the village of “Gemrukeh” – Mabata / Maabatli, residing in Istanbul, was arrested by the Turkish security, on charges of affiliation with the former Autonomous Administration, he was released on bail in 16/2/2022 AD.

– On February 16, 2022 AD, the citizen “Shaker Sheikho Sheikho / 35 years old” from the village of “Jalameh” – Jenderes, by the “Al-Sham Legion” militia, and his fate is still unknown.

= Deforestation and logging:

By comparing two images taken by Google Earth of an artificial forest in 1980 AD at the site of “Deve yol-Marwaniya” – Jenderes, with an estimated area of /50 / hectares, in (April 2016 AD before the occupation and exclusion, August 2020 AD after the occupation and exclusion), we note the percentage of areas of cutting took place for the purpose of firewood and trade exceeds 40%, especially since the cutting have continued (about two and a half years) until today.

And between two pictures of an artificial forest in 1980 AD at the site of Hamam mountain- Jenderes, in (April 2016 AD before the occupation and the cutting, September 2019 AD after the occupation), it is clear that an area estimated of / 8 / hectares of the forest was bulldozed for the purpose of establishing a Turkish military base.

On the other hand, the militias recently cut down 20 perennial olive trees in the village of “Qileh” – Jenderes, belonging to the citizen “Faeq Sido”, unfairly and almost completely.

= chaos and disorder:

– On Tuesday, February 15, 2022, an armed group in a car placed a packed quantity of explosives – as it was copper – in the hands of children from the recruiters were working in scrap collecting in the village of “Qujuma” – Jenderes, and they opened it and it exploded, resulting in the injury of three of them.

– Local opposition media published a story about the murder of the woman, “Maysa Al-Obeid in her thirties”, in Sheikh Al-Hadid district center, and explained that she is one of the recruiters and is the second wife of the son-in-law of the so-called “Mohammed Al-Jassem Abu Amsha”, and also published a picture of the report of the forensic doctor who examined the body which was taken to the “Turkish Military Hospital” in Jenderes, dated February 11, 2022 AD, indicating the presence of diagonal penetrating wounds in the chest and sharp wounds in the head.

The violations and crimes committed in Afrin are not limited to “Abu Amsha” and his companions, but are committed on a large scale by all militias associated with the Syrian-Brotherhood coalition and loyal to Turkey and under the supervision of its intelligence, and it will not be overshadowed by the formation of committees for “responding grievances”, “cosmetic activities” and “false statements”.

19/02/2022AD

Media Office – Afrin

The Kurdish Democratic Unity Party in Syria (Yekiti)

Pictures:

– The village of “Mist Ashura” – Mabata / Maabatli.

– Injured children in “Tel Rifa`at”.

– Two pictures of the forest of the site “Deve yol = Marwaniya” – Jenderes, in (April 2016 AD before the occupation and exclusion, August 2020 AD after the occupation and exclusion).

– Two photos of an artificial forest in 1980 AD at the site of Hamam Mountain – Jenderes, in (April 2016 AD before the occupation and exclusion, September 2019 AD after the occupation and exclusion).

Translated by Europe’s Organization of Democratic Unity Kurdish Party in Syria (Yekîti)