Afrinpost – Special
Militants of the Islamic militia known as the “Syrian National Army / Free Army”, which is affiliated with the Turkish occupation and organized by the Muslim Brotherhood, continue to cut trees from forests and fields throughout the occupied Kurdish Afrin region, and trade their logs in areas under Turkish occupation in northwestern Syria, in addition to selling them to the occupation Turkish.
In this context, the reporter of the “Afrinpost” in the occupied center of Afrin region said that the militia of the “Al-Shamiya Front” had uprooted the trunks of the olive trees they had previously cut them, in the fields belonging to the Afrin expatriates in the area near the water channel in Ashrafieh district.
The reporter confirmed that the militia uprooted the trunks of olive trees in the fields belonging to (Faruq Najjar and Haydar Sheikh Hussein) by a bulldozer.
In addition, the newly brought herders from the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo, who camp near the village of Jomkeh of the Afrin Center, graze their flocks between the olive and vineyards without supervision or responsibility, causing severe damage to the olives and vineyards of the villagers.
On February 18th, the Afrinpost correspondent said that the militia of the “Al-Shamiya Front” militia had completely cut down 100 trees in the “Trinda / Al-Zarifa” village of the Afrin Center, owned by the Kurdish citizen, Haider Sheikh Hussain”.
They also completely cut 120 olive trees in a field belonging to “Mustafa Rash”, from the village of “Trinda / Al-Zarifa”, indicating that the field is near the water channel passing near the Ashrafieh neighborhood, despite what the occupation councils claim The formalities, which he established to justify the violations, have issued decisions to prevent logging in Afrin. The militants and their settlers ’families continue these logging operations without accountability or control.
Activists on social media circulated on November 6, 2019, a video recording of two armed men from the “Al-Shamiya Army” militia of 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.
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 displaced people of Afrin , and collect firewood In centers on the outskirts of villages with the aim of selling and exporting the rest to Turkey.
