The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After the paid-displacement from the factions’ areas, the media professional Kinanah Hwyja ends the organization’s evacuation deal from the capital Damascus for a large sum of money

The rapid displacements, under which tens of thousands of Syrian civilians have come out of many Syrian areas towards the north of the country have ended, the operations of displacements were carried out between representatives of the factions working in the areas from which the displacement took palace towards the Syrian north, and between the Russians and the regime, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable sources that one of the media professionals in the Syrian regime’s TV who is the daughter of a high-ranking army officer, was the most important and main party in all the displacement deals in the capital Damascus, Rif Dimashq, the northern countryside of Homs and the southern countryside of Hama, since the displacement that was carried out about two years ago in Muadamiyat al-Sham until the south Damascus deal.

The sources confirmed to the Syrian observatory that Kinanah Hwyja, who represented the regime in several successive deals including the deal of Douma in the Eastern Ghouta with Jaysh al-Islam, and the south of the capital Damascus deal with the “Islamic State” organization, where the sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that Kinanah Hwyja entered Yarmouk Camp –when the ceasefire took place on 19th of May 2018– accompanied by a Russian General, and she reached a full agreement with the “Islamic State” organization, where Kinanah Hwyja has pledged to them to secure their exit to the Syrian Desert and the Syrian north, provided that this displacement agreement has a complete privacy in terms of preventing media coverage of the process of their exit, as well as preventing the members and gunmen loyal to the regime forces from inspecting the buses, in addition to securing trucks to transport the luggage of the organization’s members along with the buses.

Interested sources also informed to the Syrian Observatory that Kinanah Hwyja had supervised the Douma negotiations in the Eastern Ghouta, and prevented the inspection of buses of the displaced people of Douma, where some members tried to search the buses but they were prevented and shout at, and that, on the orders of Kinanah Hwyja; is it not allowed to search the buses that are getting out of Douma to the Syrian north, while sources told the Syrian Observatory that in exchange for completing the evacuation deal of members of the “Islamic State” organization from the south of the capital Damascus; Kinanah Hwyja got about $6 million USD, she also received millions of dollars in return for completing the deals in Damascus, Rif Dimashq, the northern countryside of Homs, the southern countryside of Hama, and south of the capital, and all of the deals took place in full coordination with the Russian Generals and officers working on the ground in the vicinity of the capital, Damascus.

Preventing the inspection of the “Islamic State” organization’s buses, which are coming out of Yarmouk Camp and south of Damascus, and, preventing regime’s media and loyalists from covering what happened in south Damascus, increased the resentment among the families of the abductees, who still fear that the agreement –which Kinanah Hwyja was a part in it– granted the organization the opportunity to transfer the abductees of members of the regime and loyal gunmen to the Syrian Desert, where the locals accused the regime forces and their allies of deliberately ignoring the fate of their relatives of captives and abductees, of who are with the “Islamic State” organization in order to achieve a “triumph”, barring the regime the responsibility of the fate of their children.

The Eastern Ghouta had lived a scene similar to the south of Damascus, about looting the property of displaced citizens in the cities and towns which have been controlled by the regime, in addition to resentment over the unknown fate of thousands of prisoners, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published weeks ago that resentment among the civilians and families of the abductees captured by Jaysh Al-Islam, who were abducted in late 2013 during an attack by Jaysh Al-Islam and other factions including ISIS on Adra Al-Ommaliyyah area located east of the eastern Ghouta of Damascus and managed to capture about 9 thousand persons. Jaysh Al-Islam took about 3500 abductees of them. The abductees were taken to prisons of Jaysh Al-Islam in Douma, which is the main stronghold of Jaysh Al-Islam in Syrian. In the details obtained by the SOHR, the families were angry at the regime authorities after the media of the regime and its allies announced the full evacuation of abductees, whose numbers haven’t exceeded 200 persons, from the prisons of Jaysh Al-Islam and that the issue of the abductees and captures in Douma has completely ended after the “full evacuation of abductees”, which prompted the families to demand for clarification about the fate of more than 3000 persons didn’t get out and their fate is still unknown, and the sources confirmed then to the Observatory that the people accused the regime authorities of abandoning their sons in return for the speeding up of the displacement of fighters of Jaysh Al-Islam and their families and civilians refusing the agreement between Jaysh al-Islam on one hand and the Russians and representatives of the regime forces on the other on the 8th of April 2018. Abductees told the SOHR sources that thousands of abductees were transferred to prisons of Jaysh Al-Islam and distributed to different prisons by Jaysh Al-Islam, noting that tens of the abductees were released in previous deals, while some others remained captured in the prisons of Jaysh Al-Islam until the mid of 2017. The families are angry because the regime ended the issue of the release in return for speeding up the evacuation of Jaysh al-Islam and their families and civilians refusing the agreement from Douma. The families said that the regime had earlier abandoned captured members of the regime in return for releasing the abductees of Hezbollah and Iranians and Afghani members of the regime’s allied militiamen captured by the factions.