Three more civilians kidnapped in Turkish-occupied Afrin

The Turkish forces and allied mercenaries continue committing crimes in the territories they have invaded in North-East Syria in violation of international law.

Turkish intelligence services and "Al-Sham Legion" mercenaries abducted 3 citizens from occupied Afrin and took them to an unknown destination.

A source from Rajo district reported that Turkish affiliated Al-Sham Legion mercenaries had kidnapped a local, Luqman Ibrahim Hassan, from the village of Maidano, in Rajo district, and took him to an unknown destination.

A joint patrol comprising the Turkish intelligence and "military police" mercenaries also abducted two brothers, Hassan Qara (55 years) and Hussein Qara (60 years), from the village of Musaku, in Rajo district, under the pretext of their participation in the funeral ceremonies of the martyrs before the Turkish aggression on the province.

In the recent period, the villages of Rajo district have been witnessing arbitrary kidnapping campaigns against citizens in order to displace them.

Turkey has established a regime of terror and corruption in all the regions it has occupied, particularly in Afrin, which has been invaded since March 2018. Crimes such as kidnapping, execution, torture, looting, forced migration have become rampant in the city, which has become a hotbed for war crimes.

According to what the Human Rights Organization Afrin - Syria documented, more than 8,063 civilians were kidnapped during four years of occupation, the fate of more than a third of them is still unknown, and hundreds of them were released in exchange for a huge ransom.

More than 655 civilians lost their lives, including 498 people who were killed as a result of the Turkish bombing, 90 lost their lives under torture, and more than 696 were wounded as a result of the Turkish bombing, including 303 children and 213 women.

More than 333.900 olive trees and various forest trees have been cut down, and more than a third of the area designated for cultivation, estimated at more than 11 thousand hectares, has been burned since the occupation of Afrin.