Afrinpost – Special
Armed men of “Suqour al-Sham” militia affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood organization attacked a Kurdish old man from the village of Qizilbasha and tried to expel him from his olive grove, but the old man stood in their face despite the beating he had suffered.
Afrinpost correspondent reported that the Kurdish elderly Khalil Khillo was beaten by the Suquor al-Sham militia gunmen in Qizilbasha village of Bulbul district in Afrin countryside, while he was guarding his olive field.
In the details, the reporter stated that armed elements from of Suquor al-Sham came two days ago to the field belonging to the Kurdish elderly, with the aim of cutting the 300 trees, and tried to expel the elderly man.
The reporter added, “However, the elderly revolted and started shouting at them and saying,” You must cut my head before cutting the trees. “I sacrificed all my life for the trees, and you will easily cut them. One olive tree equivalent to 100 people like you.
Referring to the sanctity of the olive tree, the elderly man said: “After God, I prostrate to the olives.” Faced with the old’s reluctance to the militants and not being subject to intimidation, the three gunmen attacked him, but the old man increased determination and pushed them with both hands and knocked him to the ground.
The reporter continued, that the gunmen said: They are required to cut down trees while they remain in the village for another month, and they will cut down trees because they are hungry, so the old man will respond to them: “Did you not find anything but our possessions and our labor in order to satiate yourselves with it.”
Then the gunmen beat and abused him again, and in the meantime a number of the villagers arrived, and the militants fled before their arrival, while the people of the village took the elderly man to his home.
Incidents of targeting the elderly in their fields and properties, and severely beating them were frequent in the occupied Afrin region, and some incidents ended in killing them, and the crimes passed without being counted.
