afrinpost – Special
The Human Rights Forum on Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Afrin Region concluded its work in the city of Qamishlo on the day before yesterday, Saturday, and came up with a set of recommendations, including the call for an end to the occupation and the generous return of Afrin’s people.
The second human rights forum was held under the auspices of the “Human Rights Organization in Afrin and Al-Jazeera, Research Center, Women’s Rights Protection in Syria, Rights Defense Initiative and Rojava Center for Strategic Studies.”
The forum was attended by more than a hundred and fifty participants from inside and outside Syria, and they stopped on the crimes and violations committed in Afrin by the Turkish occupation and the Islamic militias affiliated with it.
After deliberations and interventions from the participants, the forum came out with a set of recommendations, which came as follows:
1- Emphasizing that the Turkish military intervention in the Syrian territories is a crime of aggression against the sovereignty of the Syrian state, a member of the United Nations, because it is not based on an international resolution or a Syrian national decision authorizing it to intervene and after a clear violation of the provisions of the United Nations Charter and the provisions of international humanitarian law.
2- Working to end the Turkish occupation of Syrian lands and to ensure the return of the forcibly displaced people to their homes under international sponsorship.
3- Emphasizing that the crimes committed against women in Afrin rise to the level of genocide, and work to expose it to the international community.
4- Asking the United Nations to send an international fact-finding committee to Afrin canton to investigate crimes committed by the Turkish occupation state and the factions under its banner.
5- Demanding the United Nations and the relevant international bodies to assume their legal and moral responsibilities towards hundreds of thousands of Afrin’s displaced, considering it a crime of forced displacement for the purpose of demographic change and a crime of ethnic cleansing, which is a war crime according to the 1998 Rome Statute, and to refer the perpetrators to the International Criminal Court.
6- Communicate with international humanitarian workers, academics, researchers and activists to prepare files on the violations committed in Afrin and submit them to European international courts with them and communicate with relatives of victims in Europe and America.
7- Establishing an international program for individual and collective compensation for all victims of the Turkish occupation, especially women and children.
8- Communicating with international media and documentary film makers and working to expose crimes committed by Turkey and the armed factions loyal to it.
9- Forming a local and international committee to follow up on the recommendations and decisions issued by the forum and preparing for the holding of subsequent forums and forums in this regard.
