International Silence condemned by AA of Afrin 

Tens of members of associations and unions in the Autonomous Administration in Afrin in the Serdem Camp in the Ahdath area in the Shahba Canton.

The attendees held photos of victims of the horrific massacre by the Turkish Occupation Army and the affiliated mercenaries against the people of Afrin, and photos of the elderly man, Abdul Rahman Hemo, 70, and the child Hemo Najar, who was killed savagely by mercenaries of the Turkish Occupation Forces in the village of Kimar, and banners that reads: day by day Afrin is being burned by occupiers'', and '' the Turkish Occupation breaches against Afrin go on as the international community merely watches''. 

The Autonomous Administration of Afrin issued today a statement that reads: '' day after day, the Turkish State proves that it is historically and ideologically a reflection to the Ottoman Empire of the deadliest heritage in the Middle East regarding the number of massacres committed, the victims and manslaughter''.    

The statement hinted at the bloody history of the Turkish Sultanate and the Turkish State ''which has proven that the Turkish Empire was based on massacres, that was commenced with the Tilel Massacre in Aleppo and then in Lebanon then to Egypt and Armenians' and Syriacs' that were classified as genocides. In the last century, massacres of the Turkish State against Kurds were more systematic, especially against the Sheikh Sa'eed Revolution in 1925 and that of Sayed Reza in 1937, then burning thousands of villages in Bakur and killing tens of thousands of Kurds and the chauvinist encroachments by the Turkish State and the affiliated mercenaries against all human and international norms''.       

The statement also mentioned that another crime is being committed by Turkish Occupation Forces against the Afrinian people '' killing cases of Afrinians, elderly, women and children, are taking place on daily bases by the armed factions given birth by ISIS and the al-Nusra Front, the last of which the murder of two civilians in the village of Kimar, of an elderly man at seventies and a child at fourteen, who was killed savagely with more than 40 live bullets''.  

And that '' Turkish crimes that are been documented by international investigation commissions, repots by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Human Rights Organization –Afrin – Syria-, that are merely crimes against humanity and war crimes with the aim to deport people and change the demography of the region''. 

The statement also condemned ''war criminals of the Turkish State and the affiliated mercenaries, and the international silence, calling on the international public opinion and the international organizations to put pressure on Turkey and the terrorist factions to stop crimes against the people of Afrin and putting perpetrators on trial, as well as the collective work worldwide to fight terrorism that has become a quagmire threatens the international security and peace''.

L.A.

ANHA