Afrinpost – Special
The militants of the Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood, known as the “Syrian National Army / Free Army”, continue to practice cuts and logging in the vegetation in the occupied Kurdish Afrin region, which was unprecedentedly affected by the methodology used to insist on revenge and inflict the greatest harm possible to the Kurdish region and its people.
In connection with that, the correspondent of “Afrinpost” at the Center of Afrin stated that the militia of the “Sultan Murad Brigade” had cut down a hundred olive trees and uprooted them as well, in a field belonging to the Kurdish citizen Raouf Mustafa, who is a resident of the village of “Jouqeh / Juwaiq.”, Pointing That the field is located in the center of the village, “Tall Tawil” of the Afrin center.
The reporter confirmed that the owner of the field filed a complaint with the “Military Police” militia, but it disclaimed its responsibility, claiming that it is not specialized in this cases, which led him to go to the “Civil Police” militia, who recorded only the case, without taking action to investigate it.
The occupied Kurdish region witnesses daily logging of forests and olive trees by Islamic militia militants and their settlers, and the Afrinpost correspondents indicated in previous times, that the occupation militias cut down the forest trees as well as the olive trees belonging to the Afrin displaced people, and collect firewood In centers on the outskirts of villages, with the aim of selling and exporting the rest to Turkey.
Activists on social media circulated on November 6, 2019, a video recording of two armed men from the “Al-Sharqiya Army” militia affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood, who were proud to go to the forests of Jenderes district in the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin to cut down trees.
Activists said that the gunmen are from the group called “Abu Hamza Khasham” within the militia of “Al-Sharqiya Army” which is stationed in Jenderes district, where the scenes show the gunmen singing and the features of joy appear to them by cutting the trees of Afrin, as it has become a source of income for the militants, at the time it is imposed Occupation councils on the Kurdish indigenous people, on condition that they obtain approvals before pruning their olive trees, in order to secure firewood for themselves.
