An armed group belongs to Turkish-backed Sultan Murad faction cut a long-lived tree in Mazar-e-Sheikh Hamza in Ali Karo village, which belongs to Bilbile district to sell its wood. They mocked this blessed tree.
Syrian armed groups supported by the Turkish forces continue the series of abuses in Afrin area in the northwest of Aleppo. In addition to raids, arbitrary arrests and torture in prisons, there are systematic operations to steal olive crops and to levy taxes on farmers.
The practices of the militants vary between imposing financial royalties, specifying a percentage of the final crop, or determining the number of tin cans of olive oil produced in the contemporary. While the oil tank in Idlib is sold in the amount of 30 thousand SYP, Turkey has set a price ranging from (12-16) thousand SYP per barrel of olive oil within Afrin, which is roughly equivalent to half the price set for it in the previous season, where the can were sold at about 25 thousand SYP.
Residents are forced to sell their goods to Turkish merchants by Syrian armed brokers who are with “olive branch”, and Turkey has opened the crossing of (Hammam) village of t Janders district as well as a government shipping company (PTT) for this purpose and to facilitate the introduction of the stolen oil and olive into Turkish territory.
The militants of the Islamic Army (Jaish al-Islam) exploit this situation, forcing people to sell oil at less than half price set by the Turks, where the faction leaders imposed the sale of 100 thousand barrels of oil, at a price of (8500) SYP each.
The militants are not satisfied with this, as some factions are forcing residents to pay $2 for each olive tree they harvest, due to low oil prices within the region.
The olive season in the village of Ba’rava (Brava) belonging to Sharran area was looted and stolen openly as the settlers harvested the tree harvest in the village completely. It is also in the center of the area of chaos where 600 families were resettled from the countryside of Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Damascus compared to 25 Kurdish families who stayed in the native town.
The factions prevent the relatives of the displaced from harvesting, where they enjoy their parents and homes, while the remaining part of the population is allowed to obtain approval including the Mhasset, where the local council’s share of 10% and the faction leaders in the village up to 30% under the pretext of protection with military barriers An amount of 5 thousand is levied in addition to a portion of the production that it drops from the transport vehicle.
The factions do not hesitate to arrest anyone who submits a complaint or refuses to implement the decisions, as the farmer “Mohammad Joram bin Abdul Karim” from the village of “Mosako”, which belongs to Raju district, was arrested on the pretext of reaping his uncle’s olive harvest.
Gunmen following the Levantine front also raided the cooperative society in the town of Ma’batli, and confiscated 51 barrels of oil belonging to the farmer (Mohammad Rashid Sheikh Ismail Zadeh).
A patrol from the gunmen (Sultan Mohammed al-Fateh) also kidnapped Mohammed Bisky from the village of Kurcan upper in the area of Ma’batli, during a pound for his harvest, on the pretext of informing him about the thefts of his goats before.
Militants of the Al-Hamat faction raided the center of the Bulbul District Court and abducted an elderly citizen who came to complain about stealing his olive harvest.
Twenty gunmen also stormed the village of Hasan Dera, which belongs to Bulbul District in the Afrin area, cut off the road leading to it and prevented the bread car from entering the village. They searched more than 15 houses and arrested 15 people from the village and were taken to an unknown destination.
In Ma’batli District, members of the Levantine front confiscated the official papers issued by the local council regarding the agencies and forced the people through the barriers scattered around the town in the era of the olive fruits in the mill, which was seized by the security official called Abu Jaafar, in addition to stealing and looting The livelihood of the parents and the imposition of royalty on them and the seizure of oil tanks in several forms, either through the proportions they set or armed robbery.
The fate of Leila Ausu, 45, was still unknown and she was arrested a month ago on charges of picking olives without a permit, a resident of the village of Qawroun in the district, and the fate of a citizen, Mazlouh Shijo, 28, from the village of Haj Bilal belonging to Xie district remains unknown after his abduction on 13.11.2018 date To the factions of the pro-Turkish area from his home in the Zaidi district of Afrin
