afrinpost – Follow-up
The Turkish-backed “National Army” militias began exposing each other by publishing the violations of the competing militias the occupied Afrin region, in an attempt by both sides to use these videos to defame and expose the violations of some, in order to achieve their interests and presenting themselves as saviors of the people from the oppression of the other.
Today, Tuesday, pages monitored by the “Suleiman Shah / Al-Amshat” militia on social media circulated a video showing one of the forests in Mobata district in the occupied countryside of Afrin had been unjustly logged, which aroused mutual accusations between the militias of the “National Army” about who logged the trees to sell them as firewood for heating in the markets of occupied Afrin and Azaz.
Websites affiliated with the “Al-Amshat” militia also published videos showing militants loyal to “Al-Jabha Al-Shamia” cutting down thousands of forest trees in the villages of Dargireh and Shikatka in Mobata district, where the green mountains turned into a barren desert after five years of unjust logging.
For its part, websites affiliated with the “Al-Jabha Al-Shamiya” militia published videos showing the disappearance of entire forests in the village of Terenda, in which they accuse the “Al-Ashmat” militia, although the latter is completing what the “Al-Shamiya” itself logged in Mobata district.
These media sites have previously broadcast pictures and videos of members of the “Sultan Murad” militia cutting down forest trees in the village of Kafr Janneh and the mountains surrounding Sharan district, showing cars loaded with forest trees on the Kafr Janeh road before the Turkish forces eyes.
During the current year, “afrinpost” monitored the “National Army” militias logging thousands of forest and olive trees throughout the occupied Afrin region, some of which were due to retaliatory operations after the landowners refused to pay royalties to them.
