Afrinpost-Special
Afrin Post correspondent in Mobata / Maatbali area of the former Kurdish Autonomous region of Afrin, said that the Islamic militias of the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood continue to impose royalties by force of arms and threats against the indigenous Kurds.
The correspondent added that the so-called militia “Sultan Mehmed Fatih Brigade” has called through the minaret of the mosque of the village “Araba / Arab Ushaghi” theat Kurdish families must bring firewood to the headquarters of the militia, under the threat of cutting down olive trees belonging to the villagers.
The reporter said that the militia demands 100 kilograms of firewood from each family, where extortion came by the militia after it cut down olive trees owned by one of the displaced sons of the village, last year.
The gunmen had cut eighty olive trees completely, for the displaced “Mohammed Bilal” and the citizen “Mustafa Mohammed”, and the field from which olive trees were cut in the Plain of Dromieh, and cut down the walnut trees near the shrine of Berboshe.
Since the beginning of the Turkish occupation on March 18 last year, Afrin has witnessed the uprooting of thousands of forest, olive and other trees. Militias have also set fires in the mountains of the region under the pretext of the existence of YPG cells.
Traders and settlers also appeared in previously recorded videos, via media loyal to Islamic militias, talking about cutting olive trees in Afrin and bringing them to Idlib for logging, in clear recognition of them for cutting down old and fruitful trees.
