afrinpost – Exclusive
Our correspondent learned from reliable sources that armed men from the Turkish-backed “Faylaq al-Sham” militia, led by “Abu Jandal”, attacked a Kurdish woman and her husband with sticks in the village of Gewenda-Meydana, after beating and abusing her verbally, which caused her a fracture in her hand, and her husband had to stay in bed as a result of severe beating.
In details, three gunmen of “Faylaq al-Sham” militia, on 05/19/2021, attacked the Kurdish citizen, “Lamia Um Dilshad – from the village of Heftaro” and her husband, Sherif Hamid Qanbar, who is 50 years old, and beat them with sticks while they were harvesting grape leaves in the village of Gewenda- Meydana, after they asked one of the shepherds to get his sheep out from the midst of their vineyard.
The physical assault resulted in a fracture in the right hand of Mrs. Lamiah, as well as her husband, Sharif, who suffered severe bruises throughout his body, forcing him to stay in bed for several days.
The sources added that the militia gunmen were not satisfied with that, but deliberately expelled them from the house, and after they stole its contents and destroyed some of them in front of their eyes. The family is still living in fear in another place outside his village, fearing that the armed men will continue violating them with the militia’s forces’ refusal to intervene to solve the case.
The sources noted that this attack on the “Qanbar” family is not the first of its kind, as the family has been frequently attacked and harassed by the gunmen and their IDP families who occupy the village, and the citizen “Sharif” has previously been attacked and beaten by the same armed group.
This comes in conjunction with the head of the Syrian-Muslim Brotherhood coalition (Nasr al-Hariri) holding a seminar in Afrin within the framework of the Second Women’s Forum to discuss the political and administrative role of women in the (revolution) and to emphasize their pivotal role in the new Syria, as Hariri published on his account in Twitter, while Afrin women suffer harassment, arrests, forced marriage, and rape at the hands of their gunmen, according to reports by local and international human rights organizations.
