Tal Hasel and Tel Aran.. painful memory deeply rooted in memory of its children

A painful history and a present full of hope, a citizen of the town of Tal Hasel recounts the details of the horrific massacre committed by mercenary groups against the Kurds in the towns of Tal Hasel and Tal Aran, after the Syrian government forces gave way to the mercenary groups at the time.

26 July, 2021 21:46

Al-Shahba - Firas Ibrahim

Difficult moments passed in the Kurdish towns of Tel Hasel and Tel Aran, which the people of both towns remember every year, after dozens of civilians were victims of the massacre, in addition to the kidnapped by the so-called Free Army at the time, with direct support from the Turkish intelligence.

The towns of Tal Hasel and Tal Aran are located on the southeast side of Aleppo governorate, about 20 km away, and administratively they are affiliated to Al-Safira district in Aleppo governorate, with a population of about 70,000 citizens.

On the 27th of July 2013, with the evening fall, the Syrian government left the road safe in front of more than 17 mercenary groups, including "Jabhat al-Nusra - Liwa al-Tawhid - Ahrar Jabal al-Zawiya - the Azadi and Salah al-Din brigades of the Kurdish National Council ENKS", by launching aggression on the towns of Tel Hasel and Tel Aran, and the massacres were committed against the Kurds' original inhabitants

On the 30th of the same month, after three days of aggression against the two towns, the intense bombardment increased on the people, as 50 citizens were killed, including children, women and the elderly, in addition to the kidnapping of hundreds of civilians, after which mercenary groups occupied the two towns, and a dark history begins. ingrained in the memory of all who survived that massacre.

Citizen Juma'a Kalo from the town of Tal Hasel details of the horrific massacre committed by the mercenaries in Tal Hasel and Tal Aran, which killed a number of his relatives.

They committed massacres against civilians in the name of religion in the blessed month of Ramadan

Kalo begins by talking about the first moments and says, "On the 19th of Ramadan, which coincides with the 27th of July 2013, and with the advent of the evening, the mercenary groups began to launch aggression against the towns of Tel Hasel and Tel Aran, while the people were performing the afternoon prayer, and the mercenary groups surrounded the worshipers inside the mosque and prevented them from continuing their prayers, while they placed a sniper on the mosque and targeted the people of the area.”

"As the mercenaries entered the area, they shouted through loudspeakers in the Tal Hasel mosque that they came to kill the Kurdish infidels," Kalo continues.

Kalo points out that the people they took up arms and defended their land, and tightened the screws on the mercenaries until the mercenaries demanded a cease-fire and withdrawal from the area. For all kinds of heavy and advanced weapons, to commit a massacre against the two towns within three days.

Besieged from three sides by mercenaries and government forces call for their surrender

Kalo draws attention to the situation before the attack, that they were besieged on three sides by mercenaries, and on the other hand they were besieged by the Syrian government forces.

He added, "With the beginning of the attack, the signals of all our mobile phones stopped, and the thing that surprised us at the time is that the mercenary groups are unable to control the signal of the phones that the Syrian government only could do, which is what it actually did."

Kalo noted that during the mercenary attack, "the Syrian government forces were hundreds of meters away and did not move a finger, but colluded with the mercenaries, and then contacted us to surrender to the Syrian state."

"When we rejected the demands of the Syrian government, the indiscriminate bombardment increased on us, so we know recently that the aggression was in coordination with the Turkish and Syrian intelligence," Kalo continued.

Kalou stressed that the Syrian government is still following the same approach through its hostility to the Kurds and the democratic nation project in the Autonomous Administration areas, noting that the Syrian government was able to prevent mercenaries, but it did not do so with the aim of eliminating the Kurds.

Mercenaries of the Kurdish National Council participated in the massacre of Tel Aran and Tel Hasel

During his speech, Kalo explained that on the 24th of June 2013, Turkish intelligence held a meeting of all mercenary leaders, led by the mercenary Abdul Jabbar Al-Akidi, head of the Aleppo Military Council, in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, with the aim of exterminating the Kurds in Kurdish villages and towns in the Aleppo countryside.

Kalo pointed out that the Kurdish mercenaries who participated in the massacre at Tel Hasel and Tel Aran were affiliated with the so-called Kurdish National Council (ENKS), such as the mercenaries of "Azadi - Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi - Yusuf al-Azma - descendants of Salah al-Din - the Kurdish Islamic Front."

Kalo stressed that the goal of the aggression on Tel Hasel and Tel Aran is the ethnic extermination of the population of the region and the change of its demography after the displacement of all its inhabitants, and to create strife between the Arab and Kurdish components coexisting for thousands of years.

Kalo added that the mercenaries, after they occupied Tel Hasel and Tel Aran and committed massacres there, went to the Kurdish villages of al-Shahba and committed many massacres against their residents, under a direct order from Turkish and Syrian intelligence.

Kalo pointed out that the members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Syria, who participated in the fact-finding committee to document the massacre of Tel Aran and Tal Hasel, denied committing any massacre, and said that fighting broke out between groups of the Free Army.

While he indicated that other Kurdish political parties denounced the actions of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and confirmed that it was a massacre committed by mercenary groups, against the Kurdish towns of Tal Hasel and Tal Aran.

At the end of his speech, Juma Kalo called on the people of the town of Tel Hasel al-Kurd to unite and stay away from the illusions of the enemies of the Kurdish people, to prevent a repetition of the massacre of Tel Hasel and Tel Aran in other regions.

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