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 imposing a set of royalties and practices that lead them In the end being impoverished and constrained in order to displace them for the benefit of the settlers loyal to them.
In this context, the Afrinpost correspondent in the Raju district center stated that the “Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih” militia force the residents of the village of the (Ma`amla /Maaml Ushaghi )to pay monthly for electric generators subscription, even though the majority of them own solar panels.
The reporter emphasized that the militia imposes on every house owner 1500 Syrian pounds per week, notting that the generator belongs to the militia leader in the village,the number of houses is 350 ,all of them were forced to pay monthly although the majority generates electricity from solar energy.
The reporter added that the militia kidnapped the son of Mustafa Beku and asked him to pay one million Syrian pounds, after hearing the news that the father was selling his “bus”.
The reporter pointed out that the militia prevents the villagers from buying bread from outside the village, and every person who brings bread with him from another place, is fined with ten thousand Syrian pounds, stressing that the bread that the militia brings is inedible, due to its poor quality.
The forms through which the militants of the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood impose royalties differ. In mid-January, the Afrinpost learned from its sources that Faylaq Al-Sham militia imposed a new tax on the remaining Kurdish indigenous people in the villages of “Zarka” and “Chubana” of Raju district.
Royalties were imposed on Kurdish farmers under the “olive season protection tax” sign, in addition to royalties and other percentages imposed on them in the contemporary and barriers in exchange for their permission to transport the product to the markets of the Afrin center.
The imposition of royalties by the Islamic militias affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, is at the instigation and direction of the intelligence of the Turkish occupation, in order to constrict the remaining indigenous Kurdish residents of the occupied Afrin region, in order to push them to leave their homes to the settlers loyal to the new Muslim Brotherhood and the Ottoman Empire.
