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Driven by racist motives stemming from schools being turned into centers for indoctrination into extremist ideologies, IDP youths have targeted and assaulted native Kurdish students inside a high school in the town of Mobata in occupied Afrin.
According to our correspondent, five IDP students at the Maabatli High School attacked Kurdish student “Shiyar Ibrahim Omar” (17 years old) from Qantarah village in Mobata subdistrict with knives on Sunday, February 25.
Shiyar, an eleventh-grade student at the school, intervened to defend his teacher, known as “Aref” from Kokan village, after they attacked the teacher due to Shiyar’s academic excellence. Shiyar sustained five fatal stab wounds with a “kirpan” (a type of knife), and he was transferred to a hospital in Afrin city for treatment. His condition remains unstable as he is currently in the intensive care unit.
These IDP youths, shielded and empowered by their parents and their weapons, spread fear among their fellow students and bully them. They are part of the pervasive racist treatment in schools across occupied Afrin, which includes targeting and segregating Kurdish teachers, discriminating between Kurdish and IDP
On January 5, 2023, “afrinpost” reported an IDP teacher from Hama, known as “Abdul Aziz,” in “Al-Sina’a” School in Afrin city, racially forbidding his students from speaking Kurdish. The school administration issued an order prohibiting students from speaking Kurdish in classrooms and the courtyard, leading Kurdish students to protest by refusing to enter their classrooms until the ban was lifted.
Additionally, on April 26, 2022, “afrinpost“ sources revealed that an IDP teacher named “Ahmed” from Hama was indoctrinating extremism among students at an elementary school in Trendah village, Afrin city center. He segregated male and female students in elementary grades, enforced hijab on girls under the age of ten, prohibited boys from wearing colorful or patterned clothing, and expelled them until they changed into darker or plain-colored attire.
