(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia allowed dozens of families to return back to their homes in al-Arbeyn village in al-Hasaka province after two years of displacement where each family paid 50,000 Syrian Pounds, local activists said.
A local activist, who spoke on condition anonymity, said in phone call, the Democratic Union Party allowed members of 26 Arab families to return to their houses in the village of al-Arbeyen south of Ras al-Ayn. The families were forced to migrate from the village in May 2015 after the PYD forces gained control of the area after confrontations with the Islamic State forces.
The return of the village residents came as a result of tribal mediation by committees formed by Hamdi al-Daham, the PYD ally and founder of the al-Sanadid militia. Despite this mediation, the PYD fighters imposed a fine one each family to pay 50,000 Syrian pounds.
The source indicated that the residents were forced to migrate due to the extensive confrontations with the Islamic State forces in the vicinity of the nearby town of al-Manjir. In addition, dozens of al-Arbeyn’s residents belong to the al-Nakhwa bridge subordinate to the Free Syrian Army. The brigade withdrew from the area in late 2013 early 2014 after its forces were trapped between the Islamic State forces in the south and the PYD forces in the north.
The source confirmed that PYD checkpoint fighters raided the houses of all the residents of al-Arbeyen. Similar actions were carried out on many villages in the area the most important being al-Ghabishah village which borders on the city of Tel Tamr which the PYD forces gained control of in the same military campaign in 2013.
Over 1000 of al-Ghabishah former residents are waiting to be allowed to return as was agreed upon on Friday 6 January. Hamid al-Kali, the reconciliation authority in the Autonomous Administration, instituted the condition that notables from the al-Baggara tribe from the family of Abdul Karim al-Issa and the al-Waka’a family must attend to identify who will be allowed to return under their sponsorship.
The PYD previously allowed around 2000 Arab families to return to their villages in the areas of al-Hawl and Tel Brak in al-Hasakah’s eastern countryside, and the areas of Jabal Abdul Aziz and al-Mabrukeh in al-Hasakah’s western countryside during April 2016 after many months of displacement.
A local activist, who spoke on condition anonymity, said in phone call, the Democratic Union Party allowed members of 26 Arab families to return to their houses in the village of al-Arbeyen south of Ras al-Ayn. The families were forced to migrate from the village in May 2015 after the PYD forces gained control of the area after confrontations with the Islamic State forces.
The return of the village residents came as a result of tribal mediation by committees formed by Hamdi al-Daham, the PYD ally and founder of the al-Sanadid militia. Despite this mediation, the PYD fighters imposed a fine one each family to pay 50,000 Syrian pounds.
The source indicated that the residents were forced to migrate due to the extensive confrontations with the Islamic State forces in the vicinity of the nearby town of al-Manjir. In addition, dozens of al-Arbeyn’s residents belong to the al-Nakhwa bridge subordinate to the Free Syrian Army. The brigade withdrew from the area in late 2013 early 2014 after its forces were trapped between the Islamic State forces in the south and the PYD forces in the north.
The source confirmed that PYD checkpoint fighters raided the houses of all the residents of al-Arbeyen. Similar actions were carried out on many villages in the area the most important being al-Ghabishah village which borders on the city of Tel Tamr which the PYD forces gained control of in the same military campaign in 2013.
Over 1000 of al-Ghabishah former residents are waiting to be allowed to return as was agreed upon on Friday 6 January. Hamid al-Kali, the reconciliation authority in the Autonomous Administration, instituted the condition that notables from the al-Baggara tribe from the family of Abdul Karim al-Issa and the al-Waka’a family must attend to identify who will be allowed to return under their sponsorship.
The PYD previously allowed around 2000 Arab families to return to their villages in the areas of al-Hawl and Tel Brak in al-Hasakah’s eastern countryside, and the areas of Jabal Abdul Aziz and al-Mabrukeh in al-Hasakah’s western countryside during April 2016 after many months of displacement.
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