MSDWith coming of two years since the occupation of Afrin region by Turkish state and terrorist factions under the so-called “National Army”, activists have revealed new information about the tragedy of remaining Afrin residents who refuse to be expelled as a result of the practices and violations applied against them.
New chapters of mercenary practices in Afrin region, activists and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have documented that Turkish state has given a green light to the factions associated with it to sell the homes of displaced people who were forced to leave the area.
According to these sources, the factions associated with Turkish state in Afrin region are wreaking havoc in the region, and recently started selling homes and shops at symbolic prices or renting them considering such real estate as their own private property.
Within the framework of the systematic policy pursued by Turkish state and the factions to displace the remaining people, the Kurds of the region fear to exit from their homes, especially at night, for fear of being kidnapped or arrested on various pretexts, since most of the cases that have been practiced, are against the Kurds.
Among the recent cases that the Syrian Observatory got information about, is a Kurdish family in Afrin, factions took control of their home on the pretext that the family members “belong to Kurdish forces, although this family is made up of a dead father, a disabled mother and two young men, one of them is detained by the regime forces and the other by factions, only one woman remains from the family. ”
These violations are not considered new, but they have been increased greatly, as the Syrian Observatory monitored, for nearly two years after controlling of the city, the most heinous violations of the rights of indigenous people, are aimed to force them to displace and bring about process of demographic change that Turkey seeks in the region, where those violations begin with looting and theft and do not end at the point of arbitrary arrests, torture, confiscation of property, and infringement on the rights of indigenous peoples. All these violations come under blackout of international media.
According to statistics, the number Kurdish population in the region since long history was 92% before occupation, today it is 18%, and crimes of rape, looting, ransom, extortion, prostitution, killing, and environmental destruction have become part of daily life.
Ethnic cleansing, demographic reshaping, and cultural genocide are all growing together in Afrin at full speed.
