afrinpost – Special
Yesterday evening, Monday, December 28, 2020, “al-Hamzat” militia affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood launched a brutal raids campaign in the village of Kokane / Mobata-Maabatli, and the campaign resulted in the kidnapping of 17 Kurdish citizens, including two elderly people over seventy.
According to afrinpost sources, the militia released all the kidnapped after midnight on the same day, on the condition that each one of them pledged to pay ten cans of olive oil in exchange for not referring them to the “Military Police” militia and the judiciary on charges of having followed training courses during the previous autonomous-administration days, noting that most of them were previously exposed to be arrested on the same charges and their status was settled in the occupation courts.
Previous violations in the village
In April 2019, afrinpost published a report on similar violations that residents of Kokane village suffered. On Tuesday / 28th of May 2019, “al-Hamzat” militants tried to expel the Kurdish citizen “Muhammad Jamil Hamid” from his home in order to seize it and settle new settlers in his home. Although he showed all the documents that prove his ownership of the house, which he extracted from the local occupation council in the district.
However, after he refused to evacuate the house, the gunmen beat him and severely tortured him, prompting his wife to seek help from the residents of the village who gathered in front of the house, and they prevented the gunmen from kidnapping the citizen Muhammad, so that the gunmen hit the crowd with sticks, and also fired live bullets at them, which injured nine civilians, with various injuries.
Their names are as follows: (with bullet: Muhammad Battal, Hannan Mustafa Abdo, and Alefah, the wife of Muhammad Aref Qasim), (With sticks and punches: Zainab Hamid – Nazir Hasu – Hussein Abu Hussein – Hassan Muhammad – Jamil Omar – Amina, the wife of Muhammad Ibo).
The militia prevented the people of the village from treating the wounded to the city’s hospitals, and required them that the militia personally treat them to certain doctors, but the people refused to do so due to their lack of confidence in the militants, in light of the occupation authorities ignoring their pleas to intervene and punish the perpetrators.
