Afrinpost – Special
The Afrinpost correspondent in “Bulbul” district of the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin in northern Syria said that gunmen of “Sultan Murad Squad” militia in the area, about two weeks ago, cut about 250 olive trees owned by the Kurdish citizen, Muhammad Ahmed Jmmo and about 100 olive trees owned by the Kurdish citizen,” Rashid Muhammad Sido “, and the olive fields are located in a site known as” Takniyeh”, which is affiliated with the district center.
The occupied Kurdish region is witnessing continuous cutting of forest trees and perennial olive trees by Islamic militants and their settlers ’families, and the Afrinpost correspondents had indicated in previous times, that the occupation militias cut down the forest trees as well as the olive trees belonging to Afrin displaced people, and collect firewood in centers on the outskirts of villages, with the aim of selling and exporting the rest to Turkey.
Logging is not limited to militants, but even to members of the so-called military police. The Afrinpost correspondent reported on the twenty-second of July that the so-called “Abu Khair Al-Nuaimi” from the “Military Police” militia is cutting down olive trees in the village of Za’reh in Balbul district and sells it in two places, the first in the village of Za’reh and the other in the center of Bulbul district.
A citizen told Afrinpost correspondent : “We do not know the number of trees this gunman cut down or who owns it, but it certainly reached hundreds of trees for the displaced civilians from the area.” And the Afrinpost reporter stated that the gunman sells one ton of firewood for 130 thousand, Where he cuts the olive trees belonging to the displaced Kurds of Afrin to sell them.
The Afrinpost correspondent obtained a picture of the gunman, “Abu Khair al-Nuaimi”, who is wearing the clothes of the “Military Police militia”, which the Turkish occupation is supposed to have formed to maintain security, while most of the occupied Afrin regions witness the phenomenon of the Turkish occupation gunmen cutting trees.
In the village of Qurzeihel / Kurzeleh, the Kurdish citizen “Abd al-Rahman Nasser” was surprised when he visited his olive field in the plain of the village of “Kfardaleh Jerin\ Tahtani”, that the militants of “Al-Hamzeh Squad” had cut down all of his trees, at the end of June.
