Four more locals kidnapped in Turkish-occupied Afrin

Occupation forces have abducted four locals from the Jindires and Sherawa districts of Afrin. According to reports, the kidnapped civilians are Kemal Hebîb, Edîb Şeref and Ehmed Hebîb from the village of Sadire in Sherawa and Muhyedîn Koçer (52) from Jindires.

Local sources report that the four men have been taken to a detention center in the village of Iska.

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.

More than 8,063 civilians kidnapped in four years of occupation

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.