(Translation by Yusra Ahmed)
Local activists based in Tal-Tamer town in the western countryside of Hasaka city said Asayish, an armed group affiliated to the Democratic Union Party (PYD), had been looting houses of the Arab villages in in the Kurdish predominantly region northeast Syria.
A woman from Tal-Tamer, spoke to Zaman al-Wasl on condition of anonymity, said Kurd traders had founded shops to sell the second-hand goods which were stolen from the abandoned houses in Arabic villages of Alagabish, Tal-hamam, Alarbaeen and Alsooseh.
The woman confirmed that residents of al-Agabish village had been suffering of the party’s practices, as they were forced to leave their houses and lived in tents or with their relatives in Alseeha village and others which became almost empty of their residents because of displacement.
According to the woman, most houses of al-Agabish village had been demolished, where members of PYD chosen the house they wanted and took whatever they needed from furniture or even the ceilings' wood, the most valuable thing of mud houses.
She told a story of a man and his wife who returned from long visit in Lebanon, and when they went to the market of the city to buy some stuff they needed to rebuild a house or a tent in the agricultural field, the woman saw her old furniture being sold which provoked her and she started slapping and scratching her face, but when many people gathered, her husband claimed that she was sad for the news of her brother’s death, in order to avoid the anger of the PYD’s militants.
Another man from al-Agabish village who had his house swept away said: “if there are 10 armed people in a village of more than 5 thousand people, does that justify demolishing the village entirely. Even If they had left us only walls of our houses, we will go back to them, we hope that they would feel satisfy after stealing our furniture”.
The man said that members of “Asayish” had become traders of doors, cabinets and Power Cord, not only in Tal-Tamer, as there are three such shops in the city of Hasaka.
These practices come at the anniversary of the massacre committed by militants of the Democratic Union Party in the villages of Alhajiyeh and Tel-Khalil 18 Km to the South of Qamishli. The militants attacked the two villages and killed 10 families consisting of 35 civilians, including 9 children, 3 Women, on 13 September 2014, they either immediately executed victims or took them another place. People discovered 13 bodies of the people arrested 4 days earlier, while they buried 22 people a day after of the massacre.
Amnesty International denounced in a report published Monday the arbitrary arrests carried out by the Democratic Union Party in the north of Syria against people accused of belonging to opposition groups or working in favor of the Islamic state ISIS and the denial of fair trials.
Lama Faqih from the Amnesty International said in the report: "the Democratic Union Party which manages the Kurdish Autonomy cannot use the fight against terrorism as an excuse to violate the rights of people living under their control."
Democratic Union Party announced at the beginning of 2014, the establishment of the interim Autonomy in three areas of the Northern East region of Syria (Hasaka, Efrin and Ain Arab “Kobani”), after the withdrawal of regime’s forces from these areas and hand them to the party in 2012.
Local activists based in Tal-Tamer town in the western countryside of Hasaka city said Asayish, an armed group affiliated to the Democratic Union Party (PYD), had been looting houses of the Arab villages in in the Kurdish predominantly region northeast Syria.
A woman from Tal-Tamer, spoke to Zaman al-Wasl on condition of anonymity, said Kurd traders had founded shops to sell the second-hand goods which were stolen from the abandoned houses in Arabic villages of Alagabish, Tal-hamam, Alarbaeen and Alsooseh.
The woman confirmed that residents of al-Agabish village had been suffering of the party’s practices, as they were forced to leave their houses and lived in tents or with their relatives in Alseeha village and others which became almost empty of their residents because of displacement.
According to the woman, most houses of al-Agabish village had been demolished, where members of PYD chosen the house they wanted and took whatever they needed from furniture or even the ceilings' wood, the most valuable thing of mud houses.
She told a story of a man and his wife who returned from long visit in Lebanon, and when they went to the market of the city to buy some stuff they needed to rebuild a house or a tent in the agricultural field, the woman saw her old furniture being sold which provoked her and she started slapping and scratching her face, but when many people gathered, her husband claimed that she was sad for the news of her brother’s death, in order to avoid the anger of the PYD’s militants.
Another man from al-Agabish village who had his house swept away said: “if there are 10 armed people in a village of more than 5 thousand people, does that justify demolishing the village entirely. Even If they had left us only walls of our houses, we will go back to them, we hope that they would feel satisfy after stealing our furniture”.
The man said that members of “Asayish” had become traders of doors, cabinets and Power Cord, not only in Tal-Tamer, as there are three such shops in the city of Hasaka.
These practices come at the anniversary of the massacre committed by militants of the Democratic Union Party in the villages of Alhajiyeh and Tel-Khalil 18 Km to the South of Qamishli. The militants attacked the two villages and killed 10 families consisting of 35 civilians, including 9 children, 3 Women, on 13 September 2014, they either immediately executed victims or took them another place. People discovered 13 bodies of the people arrested 4 days earlier, while they buried 22 people a day after of the massacre.
Amnesty International denounced in a report published Monday the arbitrary arrests carried out by the Democratic Union Party in the north of Syria against people accused of belonging to opposition groups or working in favor of the Islamic state ISIS and the denial of fair trials.
Lama Faqih from the Amnesty International said in the report: "the Democratic Union Party which manages the Kurdish Autonomy cannot use the fight against terrorism as an excuse to violate the rights of people living under their control."
Democratic Union Party announced at the beginning of 2014, the establishment of the interim Autonomy in three areas of the Northern East region of Syria (Hasaka, Efrin and Ain Arab “Kobani”), after the withdrawal of regime’s forces from these areas and hand them to the party in 2012.
Zaman Al Wasl
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