Afrinpost – Special
Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood continue to carry out bulldozing and excavating works in archaeological sites, in order to steal their burials and archaeological finds, and transfer them to Turkey under the supervision of the Turkish occupation intelligence, seeking to strike the cultural identity of the occupied Afrin region.
In the context, the “Al-Mu’tasim Brigade” militia is carrying out excavation works by an excavator and a bulldozer in the vicinity of the ancient Qibare Hill, located on the road to the “Arish Qibar” camp, which began nearly three days ago and is still continuing.
On the other hand, a rock fell in the “Trinda / Al-Zarifa” quarry, which is managed by the militia of “Al-Jabha Al-Shamiya” militia, which resulted in the killing of two workers from the countryside of Aleppo, where the quarry belongs to “Abu Ibrahim”, who is from the Arab component of the village of Burjkeh .
Webpages loyal to the militants touched on the incident and said that it led to the killing of both (the brothers Muhammad and Mustafa Ibrahim Tahoush) from the village of Qubtan al-Jabal in the northwestern countryside of Aleppo.
The Department of Antiquities of the Self-Administration in Afrin, on the fourth of May, from Al-Shahba, its current headquarters, said that “the Turkish occupation authorities and the factions loyal to them (have been) for two years and more committing violations and grave violations against archaeological sites.”
Continuing: “Sirus received the largest share of this sabotage, which is still continuing in ways that suggest that the occupation authorities carried out restoration work as he did in the Ottoman Mosque in (2018) and then sabotage it again.”
The Directorate added in a clarification that “since we exposed his subversive practices and its attempts to mislead public opinion regarding the issue of mosaic panels whose fate is still unknown to public opinion, as the occupation authorities have recently taken measures to suggest that they carry out maintenance and restoration work, in order to mislead public opinion and to make it false that The Turkish occupation authorities are doing good work in the interest of the archaeological site.
