Afrinpost – Special
Afrinpost correspondent reported that armed men from the “Hamzat” militia affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood organization, went to the house of a Kurdish young man from the village of Kazeh in the central district of the occupied Afrin region, and after only four days of his marriage, and they asked his bride explicitly to accompany them to their homes in order to sleep with her.
The reporter added that the husband understood the seriousness of the situation and realized that any action or situation against them would have very bad results for him, by fabricating an accusation for him and depositing him in prison or kidnapping him and even killing him, so he took them to the next day, citing a health problem, and so the agreement was to return on the next day, with the departure of the gunmen, the husband remedied the situation and took advantage of the remaining hours and took the initiative to flee with his wife, leaving the house and the village, and heading to al-Shahba areas, and then continued his way to the city of Aleppo, which he arrived five days ago.
In a similar incident in mid-June, a leader in the Ahrar al-Sharqiya militia in Mahmoudiya came to a women’s salon (coiffure) and told her that she was wanted for investigation, and immediately the woman called her husband and asked him to speak with the investigator, who said that the investigation will take place at his home with his wife and another woman, and her neighbor and helped and her aid after the work, accused of working with witchcraft and sorcery, and at eight in the evening the investigator came with another man. The coiffeur’s husband called the husband of the other woman to attend, and he came with an official in the “Al-Sharqiya” to intercede with the investigator, so he talked to him in private, and went.
The interrogator summoned the woman’s husband and beat him in front of us until he fainted, and upon his awakening, he demanded that he pay 4 thousand dollars, and after an effort to reduce the amount to two thousand dollars, the man came with a thousand dollars, provided that the remaining thousand would be secured in the morning. The man and his wife left.
But the investigator and his escort remained under the pretext of completing the investigation, and his companion remained with the husband, while the investigator was alone with the wife in the room until twelve o’clock, with the departure of the investigator, the woman told her husband that the alleged investigator had asked her to do (immoral) acts, after imposing a fine on her as well, and he addressed her with bad words and threatened her to liquidate her husband or accuse him of being absent in the prisons of the Brotherhood militia, and that she took him for only one day to meet his needs.
Later, with her husband and children, she managed to reach al-Shahba area through smugglers the next day, and she paid $ 1,250 to survive.
In early June, gunmen from the “Sultan Murad Division” militia requested the hand of a twenty-year-old Kurdish girl from her father in the village of “Kotana / Kotanli” in the district of “Bulbul / Bulbul.” They are approached by the mayor of the village appointed by the militia, but their request was categorically rejected from the father, they responded by assaulting him, beating him and forcibly kidnapping his daughter for marrying her out of force on her behalf and on behalf of her father to one of the gunmen. After three days, the girl was returned to her family, only to find out later that all the four gunmen who came to the family’s home took turns raping her.
The Syrian Observatory had published a news about the rape of the Afrin girl on the evening of the 30th of June, but it deleted the news in order to ensure the safety of the girl after the many threats by the Brotherhood militia to liquidate the family if she spoke about the matter, then the Syrian Observatory returned to publish the news again after communicating with the relatives of the girl.
