Source: We feel alienated even though we are inside our city

NOURHAT HASSAN /AFRIN

Afrin city has been occupied by Turkish occupation since 18 March, after launching dozens of raids and killing dozens of civilians, after occupying Afrin city, demographics change has begun and features of the canton fluctuated, the Turkish occupation’s violations are ongoing till now.

A source from Afrin he did not want to be named for security reasons, monitored the situation in Afrin. "We feel alienated even though we are inside our city."

The source, who toured inside Afrin city said, "Afrin city prevails in a miserable environment, which is not used to it after Turkish occupation and its mercenaries and the practice of all forms of brutality and barbarism.”

When passing through city's streets which were distinguished by peace and security throughout the Syrian crisis, immediately one feels alienation, especially after wearing black dress which was forced by Turkish occupation and its violations.

Some of the people of the city were forced to go to safe shelter after being exposed to haphazard shelling of all types of heavy weapons, while some of them cannot get out.

As soon as the inhabitants of the city are seen, the signs of steadfastness on their features are certain that the existence of the occupation will inevitably come to an end and that the dust of Afrin is for its people, whatever happens and the spring will come no matter how long the fall is."

City’s walls polluted...

The source said, "The city's walls were contaminated by racist expressions written by Turkish occupation and its mercenaries on them."

He added, "The mercenaries wrote on the walls of the city," Afrin is ours, "while they wrote on the other wall phrases representing their minds, such as" I love you as much as Afrin was robbed. "The mercenaries also wrote their names and commanders on the walls of houses to show that they had seized it."

While a picture was taken inside the University of Afrin, where the sentence "Afrin is Arabic and will remain Arabic" written on the wall of the university.

On another subject, the source pointed out that the occupation puts pressure on women in Afrin, where they are forced to wear headscarves and veils. "It should be mentioned that women in Afrin are used to exercise all their rights because the Autonomous Administration has opened the way for them."

On the other hand, the source pointed out that the Turkish occupation even changed the names of shops, "while walking through city's streets, the names of shops were changed after they seized it, Rivoli" shop for clothes is named Sat al-Sham selling chickens, while another is turned into "al-Gouta slaughterhouse" which is clearly changing the city's features.

Haphazardly shoot fire and always armed...

Accusations and violations continue against the people

Regarding brutal practices of mercenaries, the source pointed out "one of the practices of mercenaries who sold themselves to the Turkish state is that they are fabricating lies and false accusations against the people to earn money in return for their release. Not to mention ongoing assassinations and kidnappings, with an atmosphere of chaos in which all their violations are concealed in the absence of accountability."

What do faces expressions of the elderly say?

At the end of his speech, the source pointed out that the features of the elderly indicate that Afrin will be freed and continued "For the elderly who grew up on the dust of Afrin… As if their gray hair and tired expressions say Afrin city will return to its people and its steadfast olive will testify to it.

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ANHA