The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The catastrophic situations of the displaced people of Afrin lead them give the silent International Community the choice to secure their return to their houses or to kill them despite the trafficking in the arrests and at the checkpoints by “Olive Branch” Forces

“let us return to our homes or kill us”, this was the last cry of a woman from Afrin, describing her and her children’s conditions, near the area from which she was displaces, in it is the humanitarian situation that the world did not care about, as the relief organizations ignored hundreds of thousands of hungry people who have been displaced, and who live in the open, near their villages which were invaded by the Turkish forces which attacked the area leading Syrian rebel and Islamic opposition factions, within an operation called “Olive Branch” started on the 20th of January 2018, while the legation of the Human Rights has kept its humanity towards the Afrin area and its displaced people aside, after it ignored the cries and calls for help to save hundreds of thousands of the people who displaced from Afrin with nothing helps them live.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored humanitarian situations deteriorating day after another, where locals asserted to the Syrian Observatory that they have been staying for more than 5 days in the vicinity of Kimar area in the Eastern of Afrin, where hundreds of families are trying to return from the northern countryside of Aleppo to Afrin area, after they were prevented by the regime forces to displace to Aleppo city, and the checkpoints of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them imposed large sums of money exceeded 1000 $ for a single person, where these families gathered near the checkpoints of the forces of the “Olive Branch” Operation, try to enter Afrin area, which is controlled by the Turkish forces and their allied rebel and Islamic factions, and the locals added that the reasons of preventing them to enter are unclear, and they are absolutely prevented from entering except after paying sums of money reach tens of thousands of Syrian pounds, while people complained that most of the water provided for them is polluted and unfit for drinking, and there is great shortage and a lack of foodstuffs, medicines and medical supplies needed to treat the medical cases and diseases which those displaced people suffer, in addition to the lack of milk for babies and the children’s supplies and food, and the local asserted that the areas of displacement witnessed at least two cases of the birth in the open, amid absolute absence of health conditions for these births, while other women, children and elderly people suffer from diseases requiring treatment, in addition to the presence of persons who died then they were entered without accompanying persons, after 4 days of waiting at Kimar checkpoint, amid shameful international silence and obvious ignorance to the problems of those displaced people who become between the hammer of the displacement and the anvil of the return to Afrin area.

Inside Afrin, the situations were not better than they are outside it, where the reliable sources inside Afrin area asserted to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, that the factions are seizing the houses, after looting the other houses, where the fighters and commanders enter seize the houses, and do not leave them even after the owners of these houses returned, they asked the latter to find another place to take shelter in, while other sources informed the SOHR that after looting most of Afrin area by the Turkish forces and their allied factions operating within Operation “Olive Branch”, the arrests turned into popular trade by the factions, where arrests are being carried out against citizens who have joined the compulsory military service in the ranks of the Kurdish forces, then they ask for great sums of money reach millions of Syrian pounds to release them, while the sources confirmed that killing was carried out against citizens in Afrin area, last of which was the death of a young man who sources said that he suffered mental disorders, under the pretext of “belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party”.

Despite the arrests and harassments against the remaining residents of the Afrin area, of security harassment and others moral, but hundreds of families are trying to return to Afrin area, as a result of the catastrophic situations that the displaced people suffer in the northern countryside of Aleppo, and this is one of the displaced people call an appeal on behalf of many people like him, to just allow them enter Kimar area and resort to houses, as the bad weather exhausted them and the lack of shelters led to deteriorated health conditions and diseases that their children and families suffer from, call through the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on the International parties to move, if they still have bit of conscience or humanity.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented about 300 citizens including 43 children and 28 citizen women, of the al-Kurds, Arabs and Armenians, who were killed in the Turkish aerial, artillery and missile shelling, and in executions against several citizens in Afrin area since the 20th of January 2018, also the shelling injured hundreds of citizens with varying severity, and local sources asserted to the SOHR that the citizens’ mobile phones, cars, tractors, motorbikes and electronic sets and equipment were looted by the forces of the “Olive Branch” Operation, and reliable sources said that their houses were looted of all their contents of equipment, machineries and supplies, and the citizens also asserted that the humanitarian aid was organizationally distributed in front of the media in the cameras, while behind the cameras and in the scattered and remote villages in Afrin countryside, these humanitarian aid was sold at high prices to merchants and shop owners, who also tended to sell them for the citizens at double prices of those which the foodstuff was purchased at, and the forces of the “Olive Branch” Operation are continuing to interrupt electricity and water to the most of Afrin area, and sources confirmed that displacement of citizens from Afrin countryside to the city was documented, where sums of money were imposed on those entered Afrin city by the checkpoints deployed on the roads between Afrin countryside and the city, in addition to arrests against tens of citizens who stayed in the area, and they were transported to detention centers after being subjected to insults and humiliation.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights renews its calls on the UN, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the International parties, to relief hundreds of thousands of displaced people and provide them with food, water and medicine, as they are suffering from catastrophic and tragic situations, and it calls to secure the return of the displaced people of Afrin area, to their houses, villages and towns and to Afrin city, and to oversee their arrival to the areas they have displaced from in Afrin countryside, especially to the border villages, and to ensure their safety, especially to the border villages, as the SOHR obtained reliable information from several intersected sources, that citizens who tried to reach their border villages with Turkey were arrested by the Turkish forces and the factions operating within Operation “Olive Branch”, and this call comes after the Syrian Observatory received information about the existence of an agreed Russian-Turkish plan, to carry out a demographic change based on the settlement of other residents in Afrin area instead of the original residents who displaced and stay in the open in the northern countryside of Aleppo, and the Turkish occupation forces that control the area, have to secure ways back for the residents for fear over the lives of the people coming back of the mine explosions.

Voice record: cries and calls for help by displaced people from Afrin on the international community: “let us return to our homes or kill us, our children need food and milk, be merciful toward us, and put our names in the lists of the martyrs, How long will we stay in the open!!, Shall we birth our babies in the wild, as it was happened with other women at the checkpoints of the forces of the “Olive Branch”!!, Look for a solution that will end our

بالصوت:: صرخات واستغاثات نازحين من عفرين للمجتمع الدولي

بالصوت:: صرخات واستغاثات نازحين من عفرين للمجتمع الدولي:: ""إما اتركونا نعود إلى منازلنا في عفرين أو اقتلونا، أطفالنا بحاجة لغذاء وحليب، ترأفوا بحالتنا، وضعوا أسماءنا في لوائح الشهداء، فإلى متى سنبقى في العراء، فهل نضع أجنتنا في البراري، مثلما جرى مع نساء أخريات على حواجز قوات "غصن الزيتون"، ابحثوا لنا عن حل ينهي مأساتنا""

Posted by ‎المرصد السوري‎ on Monday, April 9, 2018