Lina Barakat: Turkey commits war crimes in Afrin

SOZDAR JAMIL-MEDIA HANAN/QAMISHLO

The statements of the General Coordinator came after the press conference held by Syrian Women's Council on Sunday on the abduction of women and methods of violence carried out by the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries against Afrin people and resettlement of families from other areas of Syria in Afrin city.

Believers in resolving the Syrian crisis through talks

Lina Barakat said that the Syrian Women's Council believes in resolving the Syrian crisis through peaceful talks among the Syrian people and maintaining the unity and integrity of the Syrian territories. She stressed the need to hold accountable those who committed violations against the Syrian people and provide evidence and statistics to international bodies about these violations.

Turkey has fueled conflict in Syria and has a negative role in the area.

Lina Barakat talked about the violations of the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries, not only in Afrin but in areas it occupies in North Syria, pointing out that the Turkish occupation state has played a negative role in Syria by " working to create strife and instigate in Syrian territory and indirect intervention by supporting terrorists and training them in their territory In order to kill the Syrian people, as well as direct intervention in Syria. "

She explained that the schemes of president of Turkish occupation state Recep Tayyip Erdogan pose a danger to the Syrian people and lead to further killing and prolong the life of the crisis in Syria.

Syrian Women's Council stands against every occupation of Syrian territory

Lina Barakat stressed that the Syrian Women's Council is against every occupation of Syrian territory said "When Turkey occupied Afrin city, serious and barbaric acts were committed and human rights were violated, including assault, rape, kidnapping of civilians and women, and changing the demographics of the area."

She explained that Turkey forced Afrin people to leave their land forcibly under the bombing of aircraft, and had settled al-Ghouta's families and Adlib and the countryside of Damascus and Hama in their homes, "to divide Syria in a sectarian, ethnic and sectarian."

Lina Barakat said that these Turkish policies threaten the civil peace and coexistence between the components of the Syrian people, and considered what Turkey is committing in Afrin a "war crime."

Sources of statistics

As for the sources obtained from the statistics used to prepare the report of the violations of Turkey in Afrin, Lina Barakat pointed out that they were obtained from a number of humanitarian organizations operating in Syria as well as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which documents the events in Syria since the beginning of the crisis, and some cases documented by the Syrian Women's Council.

Syrian women were considerably maltreated, their defense is the first task

Lina Barakat explained that the Syrian women throughout the crisis had the greatest share of suffering and pain. They lost their education and health, were displaced and migrated, subjected to various kinds of torture, and were killed, raped, slaughtered by Daesh's hands and other terrorists.

In conclusion, she stressed that the Syrian Women's Council is defending the rights of all Syrian women in any part of Syrian territory and seeks to hold those who commit crimes against women and children accountable.

The Syrian Women's Council issued a statement on Sunday to public opinion about the violations of the Turkish occupation state and its mercenaries in Syrian Afrin. According to the statement, the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries kidnapped 119 women from Afrin and settled 6,000 people in the homes of residents of Afrin who were abandoned under the bombing of Turkish aircraft.

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ANHA