Afrinpost – Special
Information continues about the Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood expelling the indigenous Kurdish population from their homes in several villages in the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin, with a view to resettling the settlers in it, who are armed men, and coordinated behind the Turkish occupation in the policy of ethnic cleansing and demographic change Afrin, bringing them from the countryside of Damascus, Homs, Hama, Idlib, Deir Ezzor and Aleppo.
In the context, the Islamic militia threatened to transfer all Kurdish indigenous people from the village of “Burj Haydar”, in the case of the death of a leader member of their ranks, who was wounded as a result of the operation in which the leader of the “Failaq Al-Sham” called “Abu Khaled” was killed.
The Afrinpost reporter in Shirawa said that Failaq Al-Sham militia threatened to evacuate all the indigenous people from the village of “Burj Haidar” of the Shirawa district in Afrin, in the case of the death of the leader who was injured during an operation carried out by the “Afrin Liberation Forces” between the villages of Burj Haidar ”and“ Kafr Nebo”.
The source indicated that the “Failaq Al-Sham” militia prevented the shepherds from tending their sheep, and they beat some of them and returned them to their homes, as the Turkish occupation and its armed forces had arrested 6 civilians from the village of “Burj Haydar”, according to the reporter, their fate is still unknown.
Many of the original Kurdish families did not leave Burj Haider, despite the kidnapping of many of them repeatedly, in addition to the presence of about 30 settler families from Ghouta and Idlib.
The militia of the “Hamzah Brigade” militia had given, on the 25th of last January, the remaining Kurdish indigenous people in the village of “Barad” of the Shirawa district, a period of three days, to evacuate their homes and leave, on charges of dealing with the previous self-administration, and the correspondent of “Afrinpost “ confirmed that eleven Kurdish families were still in the village, before they had to be displaced for the benefit of the arrived settlers.
The operation was repeated on January 29th, when the militia of the “Hamzah Brigade” gave the remaining Kurdish residents in the village of “Kimar” in Shirawa district, to leave their homes and properties within a maximum period of three days, in preparation for the settlement of fleeing families from the western countryside of Aleppo in their place.
