Afrinpost – Special
Islamic militias affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, who are known as the “Syrian National Army / Free Army”, and under the direct supervision of the Turkish occupation intelligence, continue to fight the livelihood of the remaining indigenous Kurdish population in the occupied Afrin region, by imposing a set of royalties and practices that lead In the end to impoverish and constraine them in order to displace them for the benefit of the settlers loyal to them.
In this context, the militia of the “Al-Shamiya Front” led by the so-called “Abu Tarab” in the villages of “Brmijah” and “Haj Kasmo”, which belongs to the “Mobata / Mobatli” district, imposed a sum of 10 thousand Syrian pounds on each kurdish indigenous home owner under the pretext of a donation to the “displaced”, referring to the settlers who were brought in by the Turkish occupation to bring about the demographic change currently applied to the Kurdish region.
The Afrinpost correspondent at district Center stated that the militia leader, Abu Tarab, had assigned the Mukhtars of the two villages to collect the new royalty.
The forms through which the militants of the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood impose differ. On the ninth of March, the Afrinpost reporter said that security barriers affiliated with Islamic militias have been continuing for nearly a week to impose royalties on Kurdish citizens, under the pretext of collecting donations for the fleeing from Idlib and the countryside of western Aleppo, and clarified that the barriers erected at the entrances to the city of Afrin from the south and east (Trinda and Al-Qaws), as well as the junction of the “Matina / Matenli” village, imposing on the Kurdish citizens exclusively amounts of money ranging from 200 – 500 Syrian pounds, under the pretext of donations.
