In its memory... Tiranda massacre is a living document of most heinous crimes of Turkish state

 Among the rubble and smoke rising in the village of Teranda, adjacent to the city of Afrin, Rifaat Ibrahim quickly climbed to the second floor of a building; coming from work, he saw from afar some bodies lying on the ground in front of his house, which the Internal Security Forces prevented anyone from approaching.

 On March 8, 2018, the Turkish occupation bombed the center of the city of Afrin and the village of Teranda, 48 days after Turkey and its mercenaries began their brutal aggression against the canton of Afrin, in conjunction with a historic resistance by the fighters of the People's Protection Units and Women.

 My eyes caught a glimpse of Rifaat, a father of 4 children, his eldest son Hussein, whose body had turned into a mass torn by the shells that rained down on their house, to immediately realize that all the bodies on the ground are for his children.

 Rifaat Ibrahim says that the voice of his son Hussein (17 years), the eldest among his brothers, did not leave his mind when he was calling “My mother, my mother” before he succumbed to death.  A horrific massacre entitled "From here the Turkish state passed."

 In addition to the martyrs, their younger brother Rashid Ibrahim, 6 years old, was wounded;  serious head injuries were described by doctors as "between life and death" while the children's mother suffered bruises on the body.

 The massacre in the words of the family

 Four years after the massacre, our agency met with Rifaat’s family, who lives in the village of Umm al-Hosh in al-Shahba canton, in a house consisting of one room and a kitchen.

 Rifaat Ibrahim, whose eyes were filled with tears at first, could not;  from speaking to the camera, he described the massacre in which he lost 3 of his children.

 But after that, he agreed to bear the pain, and he and his wife spoke frankly about the day the Turkish state committed the Teranda massacre.

 Rifaat talks about the moments that followed the massacre at that time, saying, "When I realized that the shells had fallen on my house, I immediately lost consciousness, after half an hour and when I came back to my senses, I heard my brother and my cousin say how can we tell Rifaat that;  Rashid al-Saghir, his condition is critical."

 He added, "We buried our sons in the shrine of the martyr Avesta in Afrin, and a few days later we were expelled from our homes, on a hill of a village in Afrin. I looked back for the last time to my house exactly and I remember the massacre. That was the very death."

 Rifaat Ibrahim also asked, "Is it possible for Turkey to attack with such brutality before the eyes of the world a small area with this huge number of weapons and planes, the goal is genocide and not just occupation, no one was spared from this brutality."

 As for the mother of the children, Benfash Jammo, she expressed her deep sadness at talking about that day. Benfash indicated that she and her son Farhad left minutes before the shells fell;  She went to a store to buy some things, and that her child had asked her to buy him some biscuits, but she did not buy because she ran out of money.

 When returning home, she describes the moment the shells fell, saying, “I was preparing food for my children. Suddenly I heard the sound of a shell coming towards us, and it was only a blink of an eye until I saw the house turned upside down, it was a horrific scene, children screaming and smoke rising.  The shell cut off his legs and hands, and he still calls me Mama, Mama.”

 Benfash adds, "How would it feel for a mother who lost 3 of her children in front of her, what should I say, God is right and I complain to him, I have only one child left with a head injury, we are working on his treatment, as he is the only hope, but we are facing difficulty in transferring him to the city of Aleppo  Every time, the expenses are excessive and transportation is difficult."

 The Turkish aggression and mercenary groups caused the forcible displacement of more than 350,000 citizens from their homes in 2018, in the largest displacement operation since the outbreak of the war in Syria in 2011.

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