10,332 cases of kidnapping, 463 murders, and 142 cases of rape in 6 years

Murder, kidnapping, and rape are increasing day by day in Afrin, which has been occupied by the Turkish state and its mercenaries since March 2018.

According to reports by the Human Rights Organization in Afrin - Syria, from the beginning of the occupation of Afrin in 2018 until now, 463 people have been killed, 10,332 people have been kidnapped, and 142 people have been raped.

The toll of crimes and violations committed by the occupiers and their mercenaries in light of global neglect and turning a blind eye to them, as contained in reports classified annually, is as follows:

2018-2019

Kidnapping: 7,213 people, including 270 women.

Killed: 230 people, including 59 women.

Rape: 60 women.

Forced to commit suicide: 5 women

2020

Kidnapping: 1,079 people, including 92 women.

Killed: 67 people, including 9 women.

Rape: 76 women.

Marriage of underage girls: 5.

2021:

Kidnapping: 838 people, including 82 women (25 of them minor girls) and 13 children.

Killed: 65 people, including 14 women.

2022:

Kidnapping: 629 people, including 49 women and one child.

Killed: 62 people, including 20 women (7 women were killed as a result of the bombing).

2023:

Kidnapping: 376 people, including 35 women and 6 children.

Killed: 20 people, including 4 women.

Rape: one woman.

Forced to commit suicide: 2 women.

The first 4 months of this year (2024):

Kidnapping: 197 people, including 25 women.

Killed: 19 people, including 2 women.

Rape: 5 girls.

Reports were left unanswered

The Human Rights Organization in Afrin, Syria, sent its reports to Amnesty International and other international human rights organizations, but they have not received any response yet.

The co-chair of the Lawyers Union in Afrin and Shahba Canton, Rusheen Haddo, spoke to ANHA agency about this topic.

Rusheen Haddo pointed out the continuation of violations in occupied Afrin since the beginning of its occupation, in various ways and forms, and said: “Underage girls, in particular, were forced to marry under threat, and handed over to mercenary groups. Girls are also kidnapped and a financial ransom is demanded from their families to release them, hundreds of Kurdish women were kidnapped in front of their families and children.”

Rusheen pointed out that the Turkish occupation state seeks to break the will of women in the region through policies of murder, kidnapping, rape, and others. She continued her speech by saying: “All crimes and violations aim to eliminate the free will of women. Turkey wants to take revenge for ISIS, and wants to break the will of women.”

Rusheen Haddo revealed that 6 years after the occupation of Afrin, the Human Rights Organization (HRW) addressed the violations and inhuman practices taking place in Afrin for the first time in its report issued on February 26, but no action has been taken yet.

Rosheen Haddo called on international organizations to visit Afrin and investigate crimes there.

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ANHA