Afrinpost – Special
The Afrinpost correspondent in the “Mobata / Ma’batli” district in the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin in northern Syria said that the Turkish occupation army and Islamic militias affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood had set up a new camp in the district to receive more deserters from Idlib, in preparation for their settlement in Afrin.
According to the reporter, the Islamic militia cut down dozens of forest and perennial trees in order to establish that camp, which has always been the case, as more than 30% of Afrin forests and trees have been eliminated according to discretionary statistics.
More convoys ofs deserters from Idlib countryside continue to flow to the former autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin, due to the exposure of those areas to Russian shelling and the advance of the regime’s army against the Islamic and jihadist militias of the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood.
In connection with that, on the fourth of February, the local occupation council in the “Bulbula / Bulbul” district appealed to the humanitarian organizations to lend a helping hand to thousands of people fleeing Idlib, to add a new burden and pressure on the indigenous people, announcing that more than eight hundred families have arrived to the district center and its villages.
According to news observatories and activists working in the occupied region, more than 850 families have arrived to Bulbul district, about 1850 families to the district of Shara / Sharan and 750 families to Raju district, 652 families to Jenderes district, 357 families to Shieh district / Sheikh Al-Hadid, and about 470 families To the district of Ma’batli and 400 families to the Shirawa district.
While very large numbers have arrived the center of the region, where there is an unprecedented overcrowding in mechanisms and new arrivals, in light of the spread of many informal settlements in the vicinity of the Ashrafieh and Zaidia neighborhoods and on the main roads outside the center.
The militants of the Islamic militias exploit the need of the new arrivals by expediting the provision of the unfinished residential buildings, to equip them with what is facilitated and housing them in exchange for large sums of money, whereby the apartment is rented for an amount of one hundred dollars, and many of them expel the population The Kurds from their homes are under flimsy arguments, and the settlement of these families in them for very high wages.
The Turkish occupation is taking advantage of the war waged by the Russian army with Russian support on Idlib and the western countryside of Aleppo, to direct more deserters to the occupied territory of Afrin after it closed the doors of the border crossings linking with its lands in front of them, in coordination with Islamic militias to resettle them instead of the original Kurdish population, after expelling them from their homes .
The “Afrinpost” had obtained on January 9th, information that the “Martyrs of Badr” group of the “Ahrar Al-Sharqia” militia had prepared about twenty residential buildings, which were taken over by the militia in the Western Autostrad area in the city center of Afrin, to rent their apartments to fleeing from the governorate Idlib, where each apartment is rented for 15 thousand liras per month, and it is known that each building contains between 8 to 10 apartments.
The “Al Hamza Squad” militia had threatened eleven Kurdish families who were remaining in the “Barad” village of Shirawa district to evacuate them on January 25, as the 11 families had already left their homes in the “Barad” village, and went to Afrin and the Afrinpost reporter monitored some of them, as they were searching for houses to rent in the crowded city with the deserters from Idlib areas.
On January 30th, the “Failaq Al-Sham” militia threatened the residents of the villages of “Iska / Iskan” and Jalameh, in Jenderes district, to evacuate it, days after the militia of “Al Hamza Squad”, demanding the remaining Kurdish residents in the village of “Kimar” in Shirawa district, to leave their homes and their properties within a maximum period of three days, on the twenty-ninth of January, in preparation for the settlement of families fleeing from the western countryside of Aleppo instead of them, within the framework of a systematic plan to complete the comprehensive demographic change in the occupied Kurdish region, amid a shameful silence from various international, regional and local institutions concerned with the rights of The human.
