The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Ongoing atrocities | Liwaa al-Samarqand forces displaced family out of their house in Jendires and turns it into military headquarters

Aleppo province: As the factions of the Turkish-backed National Army continue their violations and atrocities against civilians in Afrin canton, SOHR sources have reported that members of Liwaa al-Samarqand has forced a displaced family of eight people, including orphan children, out of the house they were living in Kafr Safrah village in Jendires district in Afrin countryside. The Turkish-backed faction’s militiamen threw the house’s furniture in farmlands under the pretext of “turning the house into a military headquarters.

 

Yesterday, SOHR sources reported that the Turkish Intelligence and the military police stormed three houses in Jendires district in Afrin countryside on the previous day, arresting three civilians, including an old woman, for dealing with “the former Autonomous Administration”. The three civilians where taken to unknown destination.

 

On the other hand, SOHR activists confirmed that Liwaa al-Samarqand seized nearly 3,200 olive trees, yesterday, in Kafr Safra village in Jendires district under the pretext that the owner of the olive field was living outside Afrin and that the farmland belonged to the state. The Turkish-backed faction also prevented representatives authorized by the land’s owner from harvesting the olive crops.

 

It is worth noting that the members of Liwaa al-Samarqand seized over 36,000 fruit-bearing trees in Kafr Safra village since Turkish forces and their proxy factions captured Afrin canton in March 2018.