Afrinpost – Special
The Afrinpost obtained special photos showing the Turkish occupation and its Islamic militia known as the “Syrian National Army” affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, to convert the land of the “Martyr Avista Khabour Cemetery” into a weekly cattle market, after it was completely razed with heavy machinery and removed all The graves , in brutal revenge against civilians and fighters who were martyred in defense of the former autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin, in the face of the invading forces from January 20 to March 18, 2018.
The Afrinpost correspondent in the Territory Center confirmed that the settlers hold a market on Tuesday for the sale and purchase of livestock on the graveyard land, without any regard for the human and religious values calling for the preservation of the sanctuary of the graves and the dead.
The “Martyr Avesta Cemetery” is located in the junction of the village of “Kafarshil” affiliated to the Afrin Center, which was established during the Turkish aggression on the region, with the difficulty of transporting the martyrs to the graves of the martyr Seydou in Jenderes and the grave of the martyr Rafik in Matina village in “Shara / Sharan” district, where it embraces “ Martyr Avista Cemetery “The bodies of both civilian and military martyrs.
The Turkish occupation army and the militants of the Islamic militias affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood had destroyed the tombs of the martyrs, whether by aerial bombardment or by tanks and massacres, in addition to desecrating the tombs of the martyrs.
Ordinary and archaeological cemeteries were not spared from vengeful reprisals, as the tomb of the mother of a Kurdish poet in the village of Malala of Raju district was destroyed just because of the writing phrases in the Kurdish language on it, in addition to destroying the tombs of the Kurdish intellectual scholar Nuri Darsmi and his wife in the Hanan cemetery, as well as the shrine of the martyr Kamal Hanan in the village of Tilef / Jenderes, who died in a sniping operation in Aleppo.
On February 8, media sites affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood, who identified themselves as the opposition, reported on the destruction of a group of regime forces to a cemetery in the town of Khan Al-Sabil in the countryside of Saraqib, including the corpses of the Muslim Brotherhood militants known as the “Free Army”.
Those methods appeared in the case of lamenting this crime, which seems far from ethics and not related to humanity in any way, but on the contrary, it is certain that the Muslim Brotherhood and its gunmen are the last ones to be lamented in this case and other violations, as they overcame the system in stages In the brutality and abuse of the people under their occupation, especially in Afrin.
The armed, political, and media organizations affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood with the Turkish occupier, try hard to prevent the Kurds in Syria from acquiring their rights, without reaping anything but shame, disappointment, and letdown.
Since the Turkish military occupation accompanying the Muslim Brotherhood, Afrin activists have recorded the sabotage and destruction of tombstones in many villages in various parts of the Kurdish region, including the destruction of the cemetery of the village of Qurbê, which belongs to Jandaris district, in addition to shoveling civilian cemeteries in the village of Kafr Safra, and the shelling of a cemetery and the shrine of ‘Abd Rahman bin Auf ”in the village of Gaorka with heavy weapons during the Turkish invasion of Afrin.
The Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood’s militants destroyed many cemeteries in Afrin. In Shieh/ Sheikh Al-Hadid, the Turkish occupation forces destroyed a historical tomb dating back to the year 1636 AD, called the “Al-Fawqania Cemetery” in the village of “Sanara,” destroyed more than 500 graves out of 1,000 village tombs.
In Midanki, which is also affiliated with “Shara / Sharan”, local activists said that the Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation destroyed the tombstones in the town’s cemetery, and also cut down the forest trees surrounding the cemetery .
In the village of Adama / Admanli, which belongs to Raju district, Kurdish activists transmitted images of the destruction of the village cemetery, where they confirmed that the “Failaq Al-Sham” militia, known to be affiliated with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, was the one that destroyed the gravestones in the cemetery.
Kurdish activists from Afrin believe that the sabotage has affected dozens of graves in other villages, especially since dozens of Kurdish villages are still empty of their original inhabitants, while preventing the occupation of its true owners from returning to their lands and homes.
