Afrinpost – Special
The Afrinpost was informed from its sources that the militia of the “Hamza Squad” of the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood, caused the killing of a Kurdish elderly in the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin, after he was unable to pay a royalty imposed on the olive season.
The sources pointed out that on November 21, 2019, gunmen from the “Hamzah Brigade” militia stormed the house of the 72-year-old Kurdish citizen, Mahmoud Sido / Mahmoud Khojah, and asked him to pay ten tanks of oil for them, but the elderly told them that all The olive yield is only 3 tanks, and he cannot secure the required quantity. However, the gunmen beat him and brought him to their headquarters in the town of Raju, and he was also beaten and tortured until they released him the next day, asking him to buy ten oil tanks and bringing them to the militia headquarters.
One of his relatives living abroad stated to “Afrinpost” that the seventieth Mahmoud felt very humiliated by the gunmen, “at the age of his grandchildren”, who beat him and dragged him from his house in the village of Guliyan Tatani / Raju, where he lived with his elderly wife as well, while his children Distributed in several areas, adding that the injuries he sustained as a result of beatings and torture, as well as the insult caused his injury on the morning of November 23, resulting in his immediate death.
The source, close to the martyr, confirmed that the militia is blackmailing one of his sons who is returning to the village from Istanbul, Turkey, after his father’s martyrdom, asking him to pay 700 thousand Syrian pounds to allow him to live in his village and his father’s house.
A weekly report issued by the Kurdish Unity Party in Syria stated that the elderly Mahmoud had been arrested three times in previous times, during which time he had been subjected to torture and insults.
