Afrinpost – Special
The Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood continue to mess with the relics of Afrin in order to destroy and erase them, as part of their efforts to eradicate the signs of the regions’ people, in addition to the financial benefit from selling antiquities to the Turkish occupation.
In the context, a video clip showing an archaeological village in which the publisher lists his secret and sabotage excavations in order to search for relics and valuable holdings, in preparation for indirectly carrying out new secret excavations, was recently published on a page displaying stolen antiquities and illegal excavations.
The page is called “Konouz wa Dafa’en Al-Sultan Ahmed Al-Madi”, and it seeks to promote the Ottoman thought, by glorifying it, and seeking to excavate antiquities based on signs that may indicate, according to the Facebook group, to burials and treasures. Work is being done to extract them in particular from the Syrian regions , through the theft of antiquities and sell them to the Turkish occupation.
The organizers of the page and the secret groups related to it periodically display pictures of the areas being vandalized with the aim of searching for antiquities, deliberately referring in any way to the region in which illegal searches aiming to sell antiquities and the history of the country were conducted, and among them according to a source to “Afrinpost” video clip of sabotage and digging in the ancient village of Kafr Nabo, in the Shirawa District.
According to the source, where the video shows several monumental buildings, the “Roman villa”, which is distinguished by its windows, and also the two-story hotel, which in front of it there is columns and the burial located in the east of the hotel.
The archaeological source told “Afrinpost” that the village of “Kafr Nabu” is very important, because Mar Maroun started spreading the Christian religion and stayed there until his death, then his body was transferred to the village of Barad. “The source also confirmed that after the Turkish military occupation, more than 70% of the archaeological sites were looted and vandalized.
The Turkish occupation seeks to steal or destroy all relics that belong to the world human heritage, as it did when it bombed during the invasion of Afrin in January 2018, the archeological hills like of Ain Dara archeological hill, which is the same hill that the Muslim Brotherhood militants turned into a military training ground, without The lowest regard for the importance of these historical sites for all humanity.
The facts on the ground in Afrin confirm that the settlers and armed men carry out indiscriminate excavation in Afrin, where they are not afraid to be tracked by the Turkish occupation because they are working for it.
