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In a lengthy report on the BBC website on Tuesday, a Kurdish woman talked about kidnappings and extortion against the indigenous Kurds by armed Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Jamila, who lives in London, tells the British website that her brother was recently kidnapped in Afrin by Islamic militias: “They kidnapped him and called us from his phone for ransom as a condition for his release.
My brother knew that they would rearrest him again with any pretext to ask for more money, so he fled Afrin to the IDP camps in Tal Rifaat a few months ago.”
A UN report in September says that “victims of kidnappings by armed groups or criminal gangs are all civilians of Kurdish origin who are perceived to be well-off, such as doctors, businessmen and merchants. Victims usually disappear at checkpoints, or are He kidnapped them from their homes at night. ”
Jamila’s brother is lucky to have not killed him after receiving the money.
A UN commission documented a similar case on May 13: “An armed group kidnapped two men and a child with intellectual disabilities while traveling from Afrin to Azaz. The bodies of the abductees were reportedly found 40 days after their disappearance and the signs of torture were apparent. ” If an employee of former Kurdish institutions is arrested (referring to the Afrin self-administration), or if he is a political activist and publicly criticizes the actions of armed militias, he will be imprisoned in Ankara if he is not killed by his militias, Amin Ahmed said. , Which documents the violations in Afrin in confidence.
Nourhan, a young woman with a disability in her feet, told the BBC that her neighbors from Deir ez-Zor and Homs, who currently reside in Kurdish homes, told her that Turkey initially supported them a lot and provided them with all the food and good salaries they needed for their men.
They cut their aid in half, sometimes not receiving help for months, saying, “You have to manage your daily affairs yourself.” “Yes, they manage by looting, stealing our homes and seizing our crops uncontrollably. We are afraid to leave our homes for one hour, because they are enough to steal all the contents of the house according to the experiences we live in.”
According to the UN, more than half of the region’s indigenous population has been displaced during the Turkish offensive, which has been accompanied by looting, theft and arrests since March 2018.
However, these statistics are incorrect, since the indigenous Kurdish population confirms that they are now less than a quarter of the current residents in the occupied Kurdish region, where the settlers with armed men from the rural areas of Damascus, Homs, Deir Ezzor, Aleppo and Idlib dominate more than 75% of the current population.
