New tension and resentment among people of al-Baggarah clan against the backdrop of decision by SDF leadership to punish an SDF commander of the clan

Deir Ezzor-Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored resentment and protests among people of al-Baggarah clan of the Syria Democratic Forces, against the backdrop of a decision by SDF leadership to impose a sentence against a leader of the clan on charges of “preferring the clannism” after a problem in a village in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor earlier this month, where sons of the clan threatened to leave the Syria Democratic Forces if they carry out the decision, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 1st of June 2019 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that elders from al-Ekydat tribe and a representative of the Syria Democratic Forces have entered Abu al-Nitel village in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which witnessed clashes between clans in its vicinity and outskirts within the past 36 hours, where they met with the village’s elders in an attempt to stop the clashes between al-Bujamil and al-Buferio clans, and it was agreed to form a reconciliation committee of the area ‘s elders, removing the armed manifestations, neither party will interfere with the other, and al-Bujamil clan shall evacuate the houses they had entered in al-Namliyyeh village which belong to people of al-Buferio clan, and investigating the events provided that SDF deploy a force separating both clans, where the document was signed by 5 elders of each clan as well as members of the reconciliation committee, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that the Syrian Observatory monitored clashes in Abu Nitel village in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor, between villagers of Buferio clan against armed men of al-Bujamil clan that lives in the villages of al-Namliyyeh and al-Hrijiyyeh north of Deir Ezzor; accompanied by armed men from al-Bakir tribe who belongs to al-Ekydat tribe, where sons of al-Bujamil clan have been attacking since morning Abut al-Nitel village with machineguns and mortar shells, after they accused people of the area of murdering a member of the Syria Democratic Forces in the desert of the village days ago, the Syrian Observatory also learned that tens of gunmen of al-Shuhayl town arrived in Abut al-Nitel village to join the clashes there, and the Syrian Observatory documented casualties during the clashes, where a young man from the Buferio clan was killed and others were injured, amid displacement of families to the desert and other villages, while the Syria Democratic Forces has not yet reacted to the clashes within the areas that they control, it worth mentioning that the Buferio clan (who are a minority clan in the area) are accusing the leader of Deir Ezzor Military Council of inciting against the clan members on a continuous basis because he accuses them of murdering his brother years ago, where Abut al-Nitel village has been subjected to several raids by Syria Democratic Forces, during which tens of young civilians were arrested and most of whom were released later.