Afrinpost
One of the media outlets affiliated with the opposition said that the Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood organization in the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin have started, in recent days, with all their designations, to form economic committees in their areas of occupation known as the “Euphrates Shield”, “Olive Branch”, and “Spring of Peace” in northern Syria, with the aim of collecting royalties in the form of “taxes” from the people of these areas.
This media outlet stated, quoting its source, that the beginning of the work of these committees that include gunmen was from Afrin called “olive branch”, where these committees worked on counting commercial stores and imposing sums ranging between 30 to 100 dollars monthly.
The source pointed out that the amount imposed is due to several factors, including the location of the commercial store, its area, and who owns it. In case of that the commercial property belongs to one of the fighters within the “Syrian Democratic Forces”, the Muslim Brotherhood’s armed committees will confiscate it and give it to the militia controlling the sector in which the commercial store is located.
It is known that the proportion of the Afrin displaced people reaches about 75% of the total number of the region’s population, while only about 25% of the indigenous people are still able to survive, as a result of the intimidation and abuse that accompanied the Turkish invasion, and comes after the military occupation.
It is also known that the Islamic militia considers all the displaced people from Afrin to be supporters of the “Syrian Democratic Forces”, and it therefore legislates for itself to seize their properties and sell them to the settlers according to documents which are not recognized except by the occupation councils.
The media outlet added that the next step for the economic committees affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood would be the inventory of agricultural lands, determine their owners, and confiscate the lands owned by “SDF fighters” or civilian contractors with them, for the benefit of the militias.
In the previous set of reports, the “Afrinpost” had referred to the inventories carried out by the Islamic militias of the commercial shops in Afrin, an inventory of houses, and an inventory of agricultural lands, in order to seize them from the relatives of the displaced, on the pretext that the displaced people were supporters of “the Syrian Democratic Forces” and “People Protection Unites ” YPG.
The media outlet noted that the collection of royalties from agricultural land will be from 10% of the value of the land crop, until the land is confiscated if it is owned by one of the fighters of the “Syrian Democratic Forces”, or the displaced.
While the royalty percentage of no less than 10% as a minimum and let the militias act freely to legitimize the depredation of the remaining Kurdish citizens in Afrin is the percentage that appeals to the leaders of the Islamic militias and their desires, from the livelihoods of these (Kurds) and their crops that they cultivate, while their lands will be robbed completely.
