Afrinpost
Media and human rights sources said that a group of “Ahrar al-Sharqiya” militia, affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood organization, had attempted to seize, beat and arrest a collaborator with the Turkish occupation in Raju, in the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin.
The sources pointed out that the militia militants, accompanied by elements of the militia’s economic office, stormed the building of the “local council” of the Turkish occupation in the district on February 26, when they forcibly entered the room of the so-called “head of the local council” called “Fadel Horo” ( Muhammad Fadel Qurra Bek).
The sources added that they confiscated his weapon, hit him, then dragged him on the stairs and threatened him with weapons in order to meet their demands to seize the tents allocated to those coming from the Idlib countryside, and rent them to them in exchange for a sum of money, and impose a tax on livestock owners at a financial amount of 2,500 Syrian pounds for Each cattle and sell them food baskets and humanitarian aid and get the benefit from them financially.
Since the start of the Turkish aggression against Afrin in January 2018, the Kurdish indigenous people began displacement from the region, fearing that they will fall under the rule of Islamic militias and the Turkish occupation and its collaborators, and the Afrinpost reporter confirmed the end of February 2019, quoting citizens in Afrin, that Afrin is the city It has become foreign to its residents, and the Kurds have become a minority in it, compared to the settlers who are scattered throughout the city.
During the era of self-administration, Afrin was home to about 800 thousand Kurdish indigenous people from the region, in addition to nearly 300 thousand displaced people from different Syrian regions, a few thousand of them were received in camps established by the self-management institutions, while the majority of them were living a normal life among the rest The indigenous Kurdish people as “guests”.
In March 2018 alone, more than 500,000 Afrins were abandoned towards the Shahba, Aleppo, and other regions, in one of the largest forced displacements witnessed in the Syrian war, after seven years of security and safety that the Afrini people lived under the “administration” that they formed under The name of “Self-administration in Afrin Province”.
