Afrinpost – Special
Last Thursday, the twenty-fifth of June, a masked armed group tried to kidnap five children from the “Khaziyana” village school of the “Mobata / M’abatli” district, after they left the school, but the parents confronted the gunmen and saved the children from kidnapping, while the group fled away, according to the “Afrinpost” reporter in the district.
The reporter explained that the group tried to kidnap five children from the Khaziyana primary school (including two Kurdish children), by a “van” car, but that the families noticed the kidnapping and confronted the kidnappers, and saved the children, knowing that the village is under the occupation of the “Al-Shamiya Front” militia.
The reporter pointed out that the van was seen at earlier times moving in the district center, and that it is likely that it belonged to gunmen from the militia of the “Al-Shamiya Front,” which also occupies the district center.
The kidnapping of Kurdish children is not a new phenomenon, since the Islamic militias have wreaked havoc, looting, stealing, theft and kidnapping, and the people of the Kurdish region are suffering from continuous violations by planning the Turkish occupation and implementing its armed forces from the “Syrian National Army / Free Army” militias.
In connection with this, mystery still surrounds the fate of the kidnapped child, “Muhammad Khalil”, who is 11 years old, as the kidnappers carried out their promise to kill his father, “Rashid Hamid Khalil,” and his body was found on the twenty-second of May 2019, in the area between the villages of Qastal Jendou and Arab Weran of Shara / Sharan district, after the family was unable to pay a financial ransom of 100,000 dollars as a condition for his release.
These practices aim to push the largest possible number of Kurds to displace Afrin, and leave their land and property to the settlers who were brought by the occupation to settle in place of the original Kurdish population, in addition to acquiring financial ransoms in exchange for the release of the children.
