Eyewitness criticizes Damascus Gov of its position regarding Tal Hasel- Tal Arran massacre

On this day (July 27) of the year 2013, the village of Tal Hasel and the town of Tal Arran, which has a Kurdish majority, witnessed a horrific massacre that continued until the first of August of the same year, killing more than a hundred people.

The massacre was committed by about 30 mercenary groups, led by Jabhat al-Nusra, with the support of ISIS mercenaries.

On the tenth anniversary of the massacre, ANHA's agency conducted an interview with the eyewitness and lawyer Ala al-Din Kalo, who at the beginning of his speech touched on the circumstances of the massacre.

Kalo also recounted another crime, to which his relatives were subjected, at the hands of the same mercenary groups that committed the massacre, saying: "On the morning of the first day of the attack, there was an agricultural truck driven by a citizen of Tal Hasel from the Kalo family, coming from Tal Arran, it included children, And at the arch, i.e. the junction of a hill that leads to Tal Arran and al-Safira, the mercenaries had set up a checkpoint, from which they opened fire on the truck, seriously injuring the children.

Kalo added that the mercenaries not only committed massacres, but also looted and plundered, and he stated, "The 81 people's property and agricultural machineries, except for motorcycles and water engines, were looted and looted, until some military brigades named the towns of Tal Hasel and Tal al-Dahab."

Invade

Kalo described the massacre as an "invasion", and said: "It is an invasion in every sense of the word, and a pre-planned invasion, as on the 24th of June of the same year, a meeting took place in Gaziantep of "the leaders of the mercenaries, headed by Abdul-Jabbar Al-Akidi and Abdul al-Qader al-Saleh, under the supervision of Turkish Intelligence, i.e. the Turkish MIT.

Kalo revealed the outputs of that meeting, saying: "A decision was taken at that meeting to invade Kurdish villages, cities, farms and towns, starting from Tal Hasel and Tal Arran, and then heading to the north, i.e. the areas of al-Shahba."

Separation of Afrin from Kobani

Kalo explained the purposes of committing the massacre, "The political and military goal in the first place was the separation of Afrin from Kobani, and in the second degree it was the systematic displacement and demographic change," adding: "The Turkish occupation has coveted the location of the two towns. From the geopolitical and military point of view, there is a battalion of Tal Hasel and Tal Arran. Tal Hasel Air Force Station is west of Tal Hasel, 2 km away from it, and it is bordered by the military and civil airport of Aleppo, west of Tal Hasel, 6 km away from it. As for the Defense Factories Corporation, the al-Waha and the Air Defense Battalion, it is 7 km away from the two towns.

Damascus position

In the midst of his speech, Kalo touched on the position of the Damascus government, and said: "During the attack, we did not receive any support or interference from the Damascus government, in order to bomb them, expel them, or support the people of the two towns, and it took the role of a spectator and did not interfere."

Liberation of the two towns

Ala al-Din Kalo concluded his speech: "The people refused to surrender, and they did not accept the idea of terrorist factions taking over their town, and they took the position to defend their town despite knowing that this might cost them their lives and blood, and the displacement took place until we reached Afrin, and we gathered our forces and youth and set off again to the two towns aim to defeat the mercenaries and return them to their owners to be liberated in 2014.

ANHA