Afrinpost-Special
“Failaq al-Sham” militia, affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood, imposes royalties in both directions on trucks loaded with food and fuel, and passes through its checkpoint near the village of Ghazawiya, in Sherawa sub-district, in the countryside of the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin in northern Syria.
As the “Afrinpost” correspondent in the region confirmed, that the militia imposes 30 thousand Syrian pounds on cars loaded with vegetables, and 50 thousand on large trucks loaded with foodstuff, and small ones 20 thousand, and five thousand pounds on the head of every livestock, as for the fuel that comes out From the region towards Idlib, the militia forces trucks to pay 10,000 Syrian pounds for each barrel of diesel.
In a related context, dozens of armed men and their settler relatives demonstrated in the center of Rajo sub-district, to protest against the poor living conditions and the deterioration of services in the district.
The Brotherhood militias occupying Afrin do not shy away from fabricating any pretext to impose royalties on the indigenous Kurdish population. The so-called “General Commission for Zakat” of the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood organization, at the beginning of this November, imposed new royalties on Afrin’s indigenous Kurdish population, after stealing of their possessions of oil and olives in advance.
A statement of the commission stated, “The owners of olive crops are required to pay the zakat of their crops (5%) half a tenth through the General Commission for Zakat,” in addition to other items through which the Turkish occupation make its theft of the people’s crops legal.
