Afrinpost – Special
After the Turkish occupation militias and the Muslim Brotherhood organization almost completed the theft of the olive season, using all available means and devising many methods of theft, the militants cut down olive trees and sell them firewood.
In the context, the militants led by the so-called “Abu Akal”, who are affiliated with the “Sham Legion” militia, which occupies the seven field villages of Rajo district, carried out during a period of a week (from 11/11/2020 until 18/11/2020) to cut approximately 3500 Of olive trees after they stole the olive harvest randomly, whether in the fields owned by residents or forcibly displaced people in the camps and villages of al-Shahba area. In the village of Maydana, they cut down about 400 trees belonging to citizens of the Dadako family.: Haydar Dadako and Muhammad Dadaku, each about 200 olive trees. The olive fields are located between the villages of Khlalka and Maydana, according to the Afrinpost correspondent.
The armed group also cut olive trees in the fields belonging to the people of the village of Khlalka of the Bulbul district, noting that the “Rijal al-Harb/ men of war” is the militia that occupies the village, and the olive trees are owned by the following citizens, as documented by the Human Rights Organization in Afrin:
1- Ahmed Sheikh Qanbar, about 1000 trees.
2- Muhammad Sheikh Qanbar, about 1000 trees.
3- Sheikh Musa Naasan, about 500 trees.
4- Tawfiq Horo, about 600 trees.
The cutting rates of olive trees increased, especially in the villages of the Bulbul district. Militants from Hayyan town cut down 120 olive trees in a field owned by the Kurdish citizen Walid Oso in Qurneh village, and 75 olive trees were cut down in a field located in the vicinity of the village, owned by Kurdish citizen Ahmed Habib, and 90 olive trees owned by Kurdish citizen Omar Muhammad from the village of Baliya were cut down.
The olive fields near Afrin city center were not spared from encroachments and cutting, as armed men cut about 25 olive trees, and the field is located near the water channel in Qibar / Al-Hawa village, and it is owned by Hamid, a Kurdish citizen from Qibar village.
