Afrin Social Association delivers a book containing the demands of the people of the region to the United Nations High Commissioner
On the occasion of the four-year anniversary of the occupation of the city of Afrin by the Turkish state, which caused the displacement of a large number of its people due to the practices of its affiliated factions, members of the Afrin Social Association visited the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Qamishlo to discuss the conditions of Afrin's displaced. During the meeting, a book was delivered in Arabic and English to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, explaining the demands and conditions of Afrin's displaced.
It includes the following:
To the United Nations High Commissioner in Qamishlo
Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis and the increase in armed attacks on the regions of northern and eastern Syria, the Turkish government has launched three military operations on the areas Tal Abyad, Afrin and Ras al-Ain, leaving behind
Occupying large areas of Syrian territory in flagrant violation of Article /2/paragraph /4/ of the Charter of the United Nations by forbidding all members of the Commission in their international relations from threatening or using force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state or in any other way that is inconsistent with The purposes of the United Nations 0 On March 18, 2018, on this black day, the Syrian Kurdish city of Afrin was occupied by the Turkish state and with the support of many armed factions of the Syrian mercenaries, the so-called Syrian National Army, with air cover from Turkish warplanes, after a resistance that lasted more than 58 days and after spilling the blood of thousands of the city’s defenders, young men and women, for their land and honor, more than 350 thousand of its original Kurdish residents were displaced, in addition to thousands of displaced people who had come to it and settled there from all Syrian cities at a time Prior to the occupation 0, the armed Syrian National Army entered the city of Afrin, which was a symbol of peace on the back of the Turkish tank, with the support of the Turkish government and the Turkish army. Those armed factions, which are listed on the list of international terrorism, committed crimes against A number of thefts of houses, shops and agricultural machinery that their owners left behind under the bombing of the Turkish warplanes and the attacks of the militants from the members of these factions, in violation of Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Four years have passed since the Turkish occupation and the accompanying practices of intimidation, criminality, murder, kidnapping for ransom, torture and rape against Kurdish women in prisons belonging to the factions linked to the Turkish occupation of the region and the indigenous Kurdish population, and the methods of pressure and coercion used by these factions to displace The rest is inside the city and the demographic change that goes beyond the trees and stones and all the archaeological places and the imposition of the Turkish language and
The Turkish currency and the imposition of the strict Islamic religion on the Yazidi, Alawi and Christian components, the destruction of religious symbols that belong to them, the imposition of royalties and taxes, and the cutting of thousands of olive trees belonging to them under official real estate restrictions registered in the real estate records of their original Kurdish owners, all of these crimes against humanity and war crimes Which is criminalized by international law with the aim of obliterating the Kurdish identity of the city of Afrin and on the pretext that Afrin threatens Turkish national security, and the crimes of the Turkish occupation are still continuing by supporting and facilitating the arrival of members and families of terrorist organizations such as ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra to Afrin and through the campaign supported by some Kuwaiti Brotherhood associations And Qatari and Palestinian in building settlement villages for the settlers who were brought and settled in Afrin instead of its people who were forcibly displaced in the al-Shahba region and who live in difficult living and health conditions in the camps and are deprived of the support of any international organization. The United Nations to end the Turkish occupation of Afrin, the Syrian Kurdish city, and all the Syrian areas that it occupied Rama of the Charter of the United Nations, and we also demand the return of the displaced people of Afrin in the camps of al-Shahba and the displaced in all Syrian cities, Qamishlo and al-Hasakah to their homes and handing over the city to a civil administration from its people under the supervision and care of the United Nations until a comprehensive political solution and settlement of the Syrian problem is found and in accordance with a resolution UN Security Council/ 2255
