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A delegation of Kurdish rights and civil rights organizations on Wednesday held a meeting with the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, during which a documentary note on the status of the Afrin region was handed over to the International Commission of Inquiry and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Right (OHCHR) of the International organization.
The Kurdish delegation included Abdelbaki Asaad, Salwa Suleiman, Hasan Alo, Hussein Naso and Amina Misto as representatives of seven human rights and civil organizations, the Syrian Commission for the Protection of Syria (MAF), the Afrin Media Center, the Kurdish legal authority, the human rights organization of Syria (MAF), the Kurdish Society for defending Human rights in Austria, union of Syrian Kurd journalists and Lékolin Center for Studies and Legal sciences.
“We met with investigators from the International Commission of Inquiry and presented to them key issues such as the status of women, the illegality of the occupation, the status of the media, education and all violations in the region, and the extent to which the Turkish army was involved in the ongoing abuses in Afrin” said the media activist Amina Misto, to AFRINPOST
The questions of the International Commission of Inquiry during the meeting focused on the distribution centers of the Turkish army, the presence of Turkish flags above the institutions and the quality of the factions in the region, indicated Misto.
The media activist confirmed that the theft of olive oil was widely echoed at the meeting as the International Commission inquired about “how to steal and export routes through Turkey?
“We also met with officials of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the discussion focused on the file on resettlement and displacement,” she added. The delegation handed over a written note in English containing demands that the Turkish occupation and its Islamic militias be terminated in the Kurdish region of Afrin with a complete documentation file on violations and crimes, according to Amina Misto.
