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Afrin people denounce Aqiba massacre

Posted on February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 By Centre Kurde Genève

The displaced residents of Afrin condemned the massacre committed by the Turkish occupation army in the village of Aqiba, which resulted in the killing 3 members of one family, as well as to the injury 3 others civilians.

The Turkish occupation and its mercenaries whoa are stationed in the occupied areas shelled the village of Aqiba in Sherawa district with dozens of rocket-propelled grenades, resulted in the killing Hassan Haj Ezzat, a resident of the village of Brijmah, his wife Fatima Ali, a resident of Badeno village, and their daughter, Serjad Hassan Mohammed.

Due to the Turkish shelling the citizens, Esmat Hammou, Jamil Hammou and Mufida Ramzi Hassan, a citizen from the village of Kurzela in the occupied canton of Afrin have been wounded.

The shelling also caused material damage to civilians’ properties.

Issa Mustafa said “In the hours of the night, the Turkish occupation army shelled the village of Aqiba indiscriminately and barbarically, resulting in a massacre against Afrin’s displaced “.

“After the shelling of Hassan Haji Ezzat’s house with dozens of shells, we started searching the rubble to remove the bodies, but the occupation resumed shelling to commit more massacres.”

Mustafa noted that the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries aim to empty Sherawa district, so that they can occupy it as they did in the past, adding: “We will not abandon our village and we will not get out of it until the last drop of blood in our bodies.”

Hassan Mustafa also denounced the violations of the Turkish occupation as immoral and inhuman, blaming international organizations for the massacres of displaced people in Sherawa district and al-Shahba canton on a daily basis.

Turkish occupation committed massacre against the displaced children of Afrin in Tel Rifaat on December 2, 2019, in which 10 civilians, eight children among of them, were killed.

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The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to  inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….

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