Afrinpost – Special
The Afrinpost correspondent, reported that “Failaq Al-Sham” militia prevented a Kurdish woman from accessing 2000 olive trees belonging to her family in Dikeh village of Bulbul district in the occupied Afrin countryside, and they seized them under the pretext that her brother was working for the previous Autonomous Administration.
The reporter added that the gunmen threatened to hit her not to leave and return to the field, despite the fact that the ownership of the field belongs to her and her brother has nothing to do with it, stressing that the militia has seized the field’s crop for two and a half years, and reaps its harvest for its own benefit.
The Afrinpost refuses to publish the name of the Kurdish woman for security reasons.
The Turkish occupation militias in the Bulbul / Bulbul district intend to impose a royalty on the people on olive fields according to the number of trees, to be a new way to steal the people, and the decision requires the people to rent their fields for the militias, and the average amount of what a farmer can get is 5-8 thousand Syrian pounds of a tree’s production, and if the peasant refuses to rent his field, he will be prevented from harvesting the crop and be deprived of the entire season. According to the Human Rights Organization – Afrin.
In the village of Draqliya, in Sharan district, on Friday the fourth of September, members of “Failaq Al-Sham” militia, after leaving the mosque, justified the seizure of the olive harvest as “spoils”, and a royalty was imposed on the owner of the field in the village, in return for being allowed to harvest the crop, and the imposed royalty is two dollars for each olive tree. Thus, the farmer is a loser in any case, with the addition of what he bears in terms of plowing expenses and workers wages.