(Zaman Al Wasl)- PKK Syria's branch, the PYD militia, has killed two brothers during a raid on an Arab village in the area of Abu Rasin in Hasaka on Tuesday, residents said.
They were killed following PYD raids to find an Arab fighter who deserted the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
According to local sources, armed groups from the Asayish, security militias subordinate to the PYD, raided the village of Tal al-Shaer south of the town of Abu Rasin in the Ras al-Ayn area, with the aim of arresting Rami Ali al-Bahri, a commander in the al-Sharabin brigade subordinate to the YPG, after he fled from the battle for al-Raqqah. Local sources explained that al-Bahri’s brother was killed before al-Bahri killed three Asayish members.
The sources said that Asayish members killed al-Bahri after he fled the village, and arrested all the women of the al-Bahri, al-Shlo, and al-Khader families because they had fought with the female Kurdish Asayish elements who were part of the raid. The arrest expands the tension between the YPG and local Arab villages to include the villages of Majbiyet, Tal al-Ward, al-Dardara, and Tal Shaer which is inhabited by the Arab al-Sharabin tribe.
Sources indicated that a large force of Asayish, YPG and Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) had launched a campaign of raids and arrests on the four villages located on Tal Tamer-Abu Rasin road, confirming that the forces arrested anyone who received any of the Tel Shaer men who deserted the battle for al-Raqqah.
The villages have been experiencing tension for three days because of repeated raids on the pretext of searching for wanted persons, according to local sources.
Ali Hassan, the spokesman for the Asayish militia, confirmed in a statement that one Asayish member was killed and two were wounded during a raid while on patrol in the village of Kherbet al-Shaer to arrest what he described as “an outlaw gang and wanted for justice.”
He explained that they arrested a person named “R-H” (a YPG fugitive) after he was wounded, and several people Hassan referred to as “his aids.”
It must be mentioned that the PYD killed a child (12) during a raid on Haddiyah village in the Arishah district south of al-Hasakah on Thursday.
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