afrinpost – Special
Violent clashes erupted on the evening of Wednesday, April 13th, between two groups of the Turkish-backed al-Hamzah Division in the village of Basuta in Afrin, due to a dispute over houses belonging to the displaced people of the village.
According to our reporter, an armed group affiliated with “Hazem Al-Mar’i”, the leader of the Al-Basouta police station, has issued a decision to expel all the widows of the dead militants from the homes they occupy in the village.
The reporter stated that the armed group tried to expel these families out of the houses, but they were met with a resistance by the widows’ relatives, so that they had verbal arguments that developed into heavy gunfire between the two parties, and soon the clashes expanded to reach the residential neighborhoods in the village, reaching Jabal Ahlam, amid accusations by the relatives of the widows of al-Hamzah Division of slandering and that they find themselves with a fait accompli.
Relatives of the widows also accused , according to an audio recording obtained by afrinost, the group called “Al-Mar’i” of violating the sanctity of homes without warning and intimidating women, and trying to turn them into slaves for the leader “Al-Mar’i” and of trying to expel widows from homes to seize them, and distribute them to militia leaders.
