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Reliable sources told our site that IDPs, who were brought in by Turkey, are stealing marble and tombstones from the cemetery of al-Zaydiyah neighborhood in the center of the occupied city of Afrin, in order to sell or use them in construction work without any regard for the sanctity of the graves.
Meanwhile, armed men from the Turkish-backed “Suqur Al-Shamal Brigade” militia, prior to Eid al-Adha, vandalized and exhumed graves and stole marble stones from the cemetery of the village of Şêxûrzê to sell them to investors who reuse them in construction work.
Other cemeteries in the villages of Jindires and Hesen Dêra – Bulbul were exhumed and destroyed, in addition to the excavation and the destruction of many Islamic and Yazidi shrines.