The first 24 hours of opening Abu al-Duhur crossing witnesses the return of about 200 civilians to their villages from which they were displaced and controlled by the regime forces in Idlib countryside
Idlib Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Abu al-Duhur crossing between factions’-controlled areas and regime forces’-controlled areas in the countryside of Idlib continues to be opened for the second consecutive day, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitoring since yesterday morning, Monday, until today the 21st of August; the entry of about 200 people, the majority of whom were aboard at least 36 cars and vehicles entered through the crossing -which is under the supervision of the Russian Forces- into their villages, from which they were displaced in the southeastern countryside of Idlib Province, while tens of families are still gathering near the crossing to enter through and return to their villages from which they were displaced during the violent attack of the regime forces and allies in the countryside of Idlib a few months ago, and the return came after new Russian guarantees given to the people, despite the daily violations by the regime forces of arrests, insults, theft, and looting of property in tens of villages they controlled in the southwestern countryside of the province.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published in early July 2018 that tens of displaced families returned to their villages which are under the control of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities in the southern countryside of Idlib, where the observatory’s intersected sources confirmed that the regime forces arrested tens of young men of who returned from the areas controlled by the factions and Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham; to their villages which have been controlled by the regime forces months ago, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published less than 24 hours ago that tens of families which are from the villages of both eastern and south-eastern countryside of Idlib, have gathered at the area between the controlled areas of the factions and Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in order to return to their houses and villages on which the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them imposed their control few months ago, during an operation against the factions and Tahrir al-Sham, and the Syrian Observatory has received information about that the regime forces allowed some families of them to enter their controlled areas, and then they will be followed by the families who wants to return the villages and towns from which they have been displaced as a result of the military operation through which the regime forces managed to take the control of tens of villages until they reached and controlled Abu Al-Duhur Military Airbase and its vicinity.
It is noteworthy that the Syrian observatory published in early April 2018, that it monitored a new demonstration taking place near an area, where the Turkish forces are stationed in Al-Sarman in the eastern countryside of Idlib, where the SOHR learned that the demonstrators called for “Turkish intervention to protect them from the regime forces and Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and expel them”. They also called for “putting pressure on the regime forces and the Russian forces to withdraw from the area to facilitate the return of the displaced people to their areas, and the demonstrators raised banners written on them “one blood and one people, the Syrian and the Turks are one people, we demand the government of the world to live in our lands away from Assad. The Olive’s country welcomes the olive branch. The areas of the eastern countryside to where .. their fates are unknown. Our lands are green farms, bring them back to us our Turkish brothers. Take us back to our homes under your guarantee our Turkish brothers. The regime takes away our rights, kidnap our young men and kill our children. The Syrian army kills us, and the Syrian blood protects us.”