The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

As olive harvest season approaches | al-Amshat imposes levies on residents of Sheikh Hadeed

Turkish-backed factions continue excavation work in archaeological sites in Afrin

Aleppo province: SOHR sources have reported that Suleiman Shah factions, aka “al-Amsaht”, which controls Sheikh Hadeed district in Afrin countryside has imposed large levies on the district’s farmers as the season of harvesting olive approaches. According to SOHR sources, every farmer are required to give the Turkish-backed faction 25 percent of his olive oil, while the faction has appointed agents to collect the levies from the farmers directly.

 

Separately, a patrol of the Turkish-military police stormed the house of a civilian from Ma’mal Oshaghi village in Raju district, on October 7, and arrested him for “dealing with the former Autonomous Administration”.

 

On the other hand, Turkish-backed factions, including al-Sham Corps headed by S. A. and the security official called “Hesham”, have sabotaged archaeological sites in Maydan Ikbis village since October 4, as they used heavy diggers and earth-moving machineries for digging and excavating al-Naser hill in Adama village in Raju, searching for artefacts and antiquities. The factions also excavated hills in Banyarakah village.

 

Similarly, al-Hamza Division have excavated and destroyed the hill of the archaeological shrine of Abdullrahman in Abdullrahman village in Jendires district since September 22, as the faction’s militiamen felled all bushes in the archaeological site and exhumed the shrine which was a holly shrine for the Yazidis, searching for artefacts and antiquities.

 

On October 5, the residents in Za’rah village in Bulbul district caught a groups of thieves after surrounding them in olive fields. After verbal argument between the residents and the thieves, the residents found out that the thieves were members of Sultamn Murad Division. However, the residents set the thieves free, after being threatened of killing and arresting in the case that they filed complaints against them.