The series of daily violations does not stop in Afrin city and its countryside, daily documenting dozens of incidents carried out by the Syrian armed opposition groups under eyes and participation of Turkish forces.
” Suleiman Shah brigade, known for their commander” Amashat “, which controls the area of Shih / Sheikh Al haddid in Afrin area continues a week ago to impose a state of emergency in the region, raids and arrests and searches daily to terrorize people and push more of them to displacement and leave their villages and homes.
On Saturday, Ibrahim Amin Shaikh Omar, owner of a shop in Nahia, was attacked by members of Amashat in a humiliating manner in the center of town, in addition to arrest and assault on Mustafa Shikho, although he is a member of local council and it had been this militia killed Ahmad Sheikho after his arrest on 1 June 2018, without accountability of perpetrators and even threatened his family revenge if they spoke to media or human rights organizations. They also arrested Ahmed Mohammed Kalou, Walid Mohammed Jojo and were taken to an unknown location.
They also informed people that they hadn’t have documents that proved ownership of the houses and that they had not been registered by their names exclusively to leave … or to pay their rent to the faction leadership.
According to the site “Afrin Post” circulated to people and farmers to pay “Zakat” to lead faction exclusively. Each farmer has to pay the olive oil at least according to the percentage of production of season.
In Povalun village, which is part of Shra / Sharn area in the eastern countryside and close to the mountain of “Prasakhatun” Turkish forces still refuse to return the population / who were forced to flee because of exposure of the village and near the border for several days of Turkish shelling, where there were about 120 houses, All of them are now inhabited by residents of Ghouta and the countryside of Damascus.
“We have come to conviction that we will not be able to live among them, because we will be a minority among the families of the militants and the settlers and they have changed parameters of the village and cut down the trees and the shrubs,” says a citizen from Buffalon. They hate trees, they want to cut down all the trees! “
“There are about twenty families from the village currently living in Afrin, where the villagers were prevented from returning to their village. Some families were previously allowed to go to the village and see their homes, but they were prevented from living there. Some residents went to Shran and complained to the village, the settlers said to them, “Return from where you came from, when we return to our homes, you return to your homes!”
A raid campaign was carried out by the Turkish-controlled factions in Koran village in Jandaris area, where eight citizens were arrested and a number of residents were taken out of their homes and considered as belonging to the factions. The house was taken from Majid Nbeiko and Hanam Mohammed and his brother Abdo Mohammed houses.
A number of incidents were documented during the past two days, including the storming of car and the theft of his car (passenger saloon). The houses of citizens in Qada village -Rajo were also robbed by gunmen, including theft of six electric sewing machines, gas cylinders and olive oil tanks.
