NEWS CENTER - In March, 5 people were killed and 12 civilians were kidnapped by Turkey and its affiliated paramilitary groups in Afrin.

 

Attacks by Türkiye and its affiliated paramilitary groups against the settled people of Afrin continue. On March 20, Ferehudin Osman (43), Îsmaîl Osman (38), Mihemed Îsmaîl Osman (18) and Mihemed Osman (42) from the same family, who were celebrating Newroz in Cindirêsê district, were murdered by the Ehrar El Şerqiye group. After the massacre, thousands of citizens from Afrin's districts and villages and Cindirêsê took to the streets, but the Syrian Kurdish National Council (ENKS) intervened in the protests. ENKS partnered with the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) to thwart the protests.

 

According to the news in the Hawar News Agency (ANHA), groups affiliated with Turkey murdered a pregnant woman in front of her husband on March 22 in the same district.

 

However, the number of people killed by Turkey and paramilitary groups in March increased to 5.

 

ABDUCTION

 

According to the Syria-Afrin Human Rights Organization, 9 citizens were kidnapped in Afrin in March. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) also announced the abduction of 12 civilians in a report published on April 2. Nine of them were released for ransom.

 

In addition, the organization reported that intelligence abducted Afrin singer Hesen Hec Nasir in Istanbul for playing and singing Kurdish songs.

 

Likewise, a citizen named Hesen Subhî El Tawîl (30) from the village of Dêr Swanê in Shera district was abducted. In addition, members of the Al Emşat group kidnapped a child named Aslan Misto from Shera district under false pretenses in order to get ransom from his family in exchange for his release.

 

CUTTING OF TREES

 

The Syria-Afrin Human Rights Organization stated that in March, 3,000 olive trees were cut down and fuel was used in Afrin. It was recorded that 75 of these trees belonged to Ehmed and Xelîl Nebû Guleweyîri from Kefer Nebo village of Sherawa district. It was also informed that the field where the trees were cut is on the road between Kefer Nebo and Basûfanê.

 

He stated in SOHR that more than 805 olive trees were cut down in Afrin's districts and villages.

 

He also announced that with the support of a Qatari association, the construction of a new center in the village of Hêkicê in Shera district has begun, and that the association has promised to establish centers in its cantons and districts.

 

ÊZIDIS FORCED TO BE MUSLIM

 

It is also reported that paramilitary groups forced 2 Yazidi citizens from the same family from the village of Qibarê in Shera district to convert to Islam.