The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Turkish-backed factions continues repressing people of Jendires and Afrin

Aleppo Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources in Jendires in Afrin countryside, north-west of Aleppo, have reported that Turkish-backed factions have forced people to buy fuel and bread from stores owned or managed by the factions’ affiliates.

 

Meanwhile, these factions allow farmers to plow their farms for harvesting grapes only after approval by the security headquarters of “Liwaa Al-Waqqas” faction. Not to mention the levies imposed by the same faction on the locals’ harvest.

 

Yesterday, SOHR sources reported that Turkish-backed factions continued committing violations in areas of Turkish-held city of Afrin.

 

Displaced people from several Syrian provinces were allowed to cut down forests and trees in the village of Routanli in Ma’abatli district, only after approval from the Turkish-backed faction of “Samarkand”.

 

Observatory sources added that the price of a kilo of firewood did not exceed 30 Syrian pounds, as Turkish forces prevented the transport of firewood to other areas.

 

According to Observatory sources, the procedures for cutting dawn firewood and forests have been the same in all areas of Afrin, where the area and public property are under the control of the faction operating in that area.

 

In mid-March, the Syrian Observatory monitored the cutting down of a large number of trees in Al-Mahmoudiyah neighbourhood in central Afrin, as factions continued to cut down trees in various areas of the countryside.