Displaced people from Afrin demonstrate in front of a Russian delegation who entered a camp of them north Aleppo denouncing the Russian role in Afrin operation and demand to return to it

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights observed tension in the northern countryside of Aleppo, with an increased resentment among citizens displaced from Afrin area due to Operation “Olive branch”, which was carried out by Turkish Forces and opposition the rebel and Islamic factions, where angry displaced people expelled a Russian delegation intersected sources said that it came to Brakhdan camp in Fafin area in the northern countryside of Aleppo to “distribute humanitarian aid”, and the people chanted demanding their return to Afrin denouncing the Russian role in Afrin Operation, where they said: “We want to go back to Afrin and we don’t want the aid”, the citizens continued their pressure until the delegation left the area where the people demonstrated, and this expel took place in conjunction with an increased worsening humanitarian, food and health conditions of the displaced citizen from Afrin area to the northern countryside of Aleppo, because the humanitarian and relief organizations turned a blind eye on helping them.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the tragedy continues and increases day after another, thus, it affected those who remained in Afrin city and its countryside, and also those who have been displaced from it as a result of the Operation “Olive Branch” led by the Turkish forces with the participation of the Syrian opposition factions on the 20th of May 2018, where local sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the factions of the Operation “Olive Branch” which are located in Afrin area, are still continuing to loot and thieve the property of the citizens, and the residents confirmed that factions have imposed royalties on the owners and farmers of the agricultural lands and farms in Afrin area, while they burn the crops of those who refuse to pay the royalties, the SOHR also learned from intersected sources, that tens of vehicles have returned from the contact lines between the controlled areas of the Turkish forces and the forces of the “Olive Branch” Operation, and the regime’s controlled areas and the controlled areas of the Kurdish forces in the northern countryside of Aleppo, as a result of preventing the citizens by the factions and Turkish authorities from returning to Afrin area.

The sources confirmed that this prevention is accompanied by fears by the citizens from entering the area, after the arrests which were carried out against the citizens of those who were allowed by the Turkish authorities to enter the area, while hundreds of citizens disappointedly turned back, after they had prevented from returning  to their houses and villages which were seized and became under the control of the factions and the Turkish forces, while hundreds of thousands of citizens who are located in the northern countryside of Aleppo, are still suffering from the deteriorating human and living situations, in conjunction with the bad weather, where the humanitarian organizations are still turning their backs to the calls for help and the cries of children, women and elderly people, amid the International Community’s ignore to this tragedy of hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced from their villages, towns and houses.

And the Syrian Observatory published few days ago, that it monitored the Syrian opposition of the “Olive Branch” operation arresting tens of citizens in Afrin city And its countryside in the northwest sector of Aleppo province, where the people accused the factions working in Afrin area of taking the arrest as a trade, by bringing the citizens to detention centers and forcing their relatives to pay a ransom in exchange for releasing them, after beating and torturing them, also the factions interrogate the families returning to Afrin area, about their association with the Democratic Union Party and the Kurdish Forces, and the Syrian Observatory monitored few days ago, a shy return of the displaced people of Afrin, where displaced families in the northern countryside of Aleppo were able to return to Afrin area, after being allowed by the checkpoints of factions and the Turkish Forces to return to the area, sources told the Syrian Observatory that the numbers of returnees is considered too small compared to hundreds of thousands of who have been displaced from Afrin and its countryside, and the returning families are being subjected to investigation about the existence of family members who are enrolled in the Self-Defense duty, and whether they were joined voluntarily or are forced to do so, as well as their partisan and political connection with the Democratic Union Party and Kurdish Forces.