Afrinpost – Special
Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood continue to use kidnapping and arrest as a means of blackmail, pressure and restrictions on the remaining Kurdish indigenous people in the occupied Afrin region, with the aim of expelling them from their homes for the benefit of Islamic settlers loyal to them from various conflict areas in Syria, the latest of which is Idlib.
In connection with this, the militia of the “Sultan Murad” militia raided the village of “Semalka” in the “Mobata / Ma’batli” district, on Sunday, February 2, and kidnapped seven Kurdish citizens, including an elderly one.
According to activists, the kidnapees are: (Esmat Mustafa Muhammad, Ibrahim Mustafa Muhammad, Muhammad Ibrahim Mustafa, Muhammad Mustafa Muhammad, Adnan Hamid Muhammad, Mahmoud Hamid Muhammad, Ahmed Hamid Muhammad), where the three brothers were released, “Adnan Hamid Muhammad, Mahmoud Hamid Muhammad, Ahmed Hamid Muhammad ”on the same day after interrogation.
Activists added that the citizen, Ismat Mustafa Mohamed, was physically assaulted, and he was released on February 4, after he paid a financial ransom, while the fate of the remaining three citizens is still unknown.
Islamic militias rely on kidnapping as a means of obtaining money, which is one of the methods they followed since the beginning of the occupation of Afrin, while the Turkish occupation supervises these operations as one of the methods of displacing the Kurds and preventing the displaced from returning.
In this context, the “Afrinpost” reporter had confirmed on January 9 that the Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood had released a kidnapped Kurdish youth while he was in a bad condition, and the reporter said that the Kurdish youth “Dilovan Ismat Ibrahim” a residents of Chomzna village, which belongs to the “Mobata / Ma’batli” district, who is eighteen years old and disappeared in mysterious circumstances, after receiving a phone call on the twelfth of December 2019, when he left directly from his house in the Ashrafieh neighborhood, in the middle of the occupied Afrin center, He never came back.
A week after the young man, Dilovan, was kidnapped, gunmen contacted his family and demanded a financial ransom of six million Syrian pounds to release him, as his family managed to secure the amount and he was handed over to the mediator, who in turn delivered the money to the militia (without being able to identify the mediator and the militia), and the Correspondent noted: On January 6, the gunmen released the young man, “Dilovan”, as he was taken down from a car of the militants in the industrial zone, and he is in a very bad health and psychological condition.
The reporter indicated that when he met his family with their son, they found him in an abnormal situation as a result of being forced to take large quantities of hallucinogenic injections, while the effects of torture appeared clearly on his body as a result of severe beatings, but what is denied is that the young man “Dilvan” has lost his memory.
In turn, the “Human Rights Organization in Afrin Province” had revealed a two-year statistic of the violations of the Turkish occupation army and Islamic militias affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, in conjunction with the second annual tragedy of the start of the Turkish invasion of Afrin region, where the organization issued a statement between a gathering of hundreds of Afrin expatriates in Shahba, in January 16, in Sardam camp, and around the abductees, the statement said that more than 6000 civilians of both sexes have been kidnapped, and the fate of more than 3300 kidnapees remains unknown.
