After Manbij protests | Pro-regime individuals form armed groups for unknown reasons

Aleppo province: Reliable sources have told SOHR that pro-regime individuals from the tribes of Bin Sa’dawi, al-Bosultan and al-Bobanna have distributed weapons to people in Manbij city and countryside.

 

According to SOHR sources, these weapons included grenades and AK-47 rifles and ammunition, as the pro-regime individuals managed to recruit over 1,000 people and divided them into groups for unknown reasons.

 

This development followed the protests in Manbij city and countryside, which was accompanied by a state of disorder.

 

Yesterday, SOHR activists documented the death of a member of al-Najda forces in the city Manbij which is the under control of Manbij Military Council Forces in northeast of Aleppo, succumbing to his wounds sustained in IED explosion in the city a day earlier.

 

On Thursday, SOHR activists reported that IED exploded near civilians gathering at al-Fath mosque in Manbij city, along with the passing of a car of the SDF-led al-Najda forces.

 

While on June 7, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activists reported that tribal elders and dignitaries in Manbij issued a statement including 17 popular requests as follow :

 

• Cancellation of “duty of self-defense” (mandatory conscription) for all young males.

 

• Stop of arresting Manbij youth in any place of north east Syria and not driving them to perform duty of self-defense.

 

• Offering medical treatment to wounded people.

 

• Holding the members who opened fire on civilians accountable.

 

• Compromising the victims’ families.

 

• Activating the role of the health committee and control medicine prices inside the city and its countryside.

 

• Securing sufficient amounts of fuel and its derivatives to the city.

 

• Cancellation of customs on medicine and medical stuffs.

 

• Decreasing customs on food stuffs, raw materials, spare parts …etc.

 

• Allowing families of al-Sheiokh town to return to their homes.

 

• Hiring teachers with permanent contracts.

 

• Arresting wanted people under court’s arrest warrants only.

 

• Facilitating the work of organizations operating in Manbig city and activate their role.

 

• Giving back personal certificates and documents confiscated from youth at crossings while driving them to military service.

 

• Putting an end to the military personnel’s tours in the city holding their weapons.

 

• Giving back the seized properties back to their owners.

 

• Compensating the owners of damaged buildings in the war on ISIS.