Afrinpost
In a lengthy report presented on the BBC website on Tuesday, a civilian talked about the torture of the indigenous Kurds in the occupied Afrin province, by militants of Islamic militias of the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood.
In testimony by Shadi Mustafa and his wife, Nisreen, who was overwhelmed by the arrest of the Mu’tasim Billah militia several times and tortured him and burned his body with a metal skewer, he had to pay huge amounts for his release each time, until he fled in June. In the past, he went to the Shahba camps with his wife after being beaten, humiliated and blackmailed not only from the Mu’tasim Billah faction, but also from Afrin.
Shadi told the BBC: “We were told that Afrin was safe and that the factions did not disturb any indigenous people. My wife and I returned to believe it, but I was surprised one week after I returned the Mu’tasim Billah faction, whose members are mostly from Homs, arrested. Ali”. “They put a gang on my eyes, handcuffed me and dragged me to jail kicking and cursing me. They call me a terrorist. I have been in contact with members of the former Kurdish administration.
They started torturing me and burning my body for four days. My pictures are still showing signs of burns on my body. He was released after paying them $ 800.
But these militias returned the ball three more times, realizing that they could get more money from Shadi, who was borrowing from his relatives every time. “While I was in prison, I could hear the cries and crying of women, it was terrible and sad,” he said. I bet they were Kurdish, because the prison was reserved for politicians.
” Shadi and his wife fled again to the camps forcibly displaced people in Shahba, hoping to return to their homes in Afrin after the departure of the Turkish occupation army and its Islamic militias. Torture by the Turkish occupation and its gunmen is varied.
In November alone, the Afrinpost documented various forms of torture and abuse by Turkish-trained Islamists against the Kurds.
Among the cases documented by the Afrin Post, Faliq al-Sham militia stormed the homes of a number of Kurdish citizens on 6 November and severely assaulted a number of Kurdish indigenous people in the town of Maidan Akbes in Raju district, including a pregnant woman. To abort them.
On Nov. 10, gunmen from the “Failaq Al-Majd” militia attacked a Kurdish citizen under the pretext of hiding the true amount of his harvest during the current olive season in order to reduce the value of the royalties imposed on the crop. When militants of the “Al-Majd” militia, currently led by Abu Adel, physically assaulted Lukman Hanan / Balousieh from the village of Jubana of Raju and tortured him by applying the Falaqa punishment against him, on the pretext of reducing the number of The plates of oil produced by his crop of oil, to evade and mitigate the royalty imposed on him by the militia.
On November 17th, a militant of the Ahrar al-Sharqiya militia in Mahmudiyah neighborhood physically assaulted a Kurdish citizen, under the pretext of making a noise while chopping firewood. He also threatened him with death to dare to defend himself. The Kurdish citizen was seriously injured.
Many Kurdish citizens have been in military police prisons for many months now, due to disagreements between their children and the children of the settlers. Perhaps the most reprehensible incident was the imprisonment of a Kurdish citizen in the prisons of that militia, because of the impact of a (ladder) he holds on the street in a settler, where he has been detained for six months.
On 17 November, a gunman from the militia “Falik al-Sham”, assaulted a Kurdish citizen in the town of “Akbas Square” of Raju district, after he refused to break up a session among the village men in the street, where he attacked “Salah Mohammed / Ibn Abu Badr” , By the gunman who hit him and his leg to the headquarters of the “security” to be released later, arguing that the gatherings are prohibited!
Many of the abused Kurdish citizens are forced to submit to the absence of the rule of law and the dominance of arms chaos, while no armed gunmen or settlers have been prosecuted, since the Turkish occupation is responsible for what is happening by leaving the door of violations legitimizing the indigenous people to leave as many of them as possible to leave Afrin for the occupation and the settlers.
With the Turkish occupation firing the hands of gunmen, there are frequent cases of violence and attacks on the Kurdish citizens, including the release of the Turkish occupation forces armed in the militia “Military Police” called “Ayham al-Qabaa” (from the city of Tel Rifaat), after he killed the young citizen Mohammed Hanif Mohu, nicknamed “Hamada,” was tortured on 9 September at the militia’s Raju prison.
