{"id":95,"date":"2020-05-06T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T22:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zagros-centre.org\/en\/?p=95"},"modified":"2020-05-09T03:11:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T01:11:55","slug":"call-to-place-afrin-under-international-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zagros-centre.org\/en\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Call to place Afrin under International Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c45 Syrian and international organizations<\/span><\/span> call on bringing an end to the suffering of residents in Afrin, ending daily human rights violations and facilitating a safe return of the forcibly displaced population. We also call for the formation of\u00a0 a civilian council consisting of the local population of Afrin\u201d.<\/p>\n

On April 28th, 2020 a large explosion hit the city of Afrin, causing the loss of no less than 60 lives. The majority of these casualties were innocent civilians, in addition to scores of injured and missing people, plus massive material damage. This was the single deadliest attack since the area was militarily occupied by Turkey and factions of Turkey-backed “Syrian National Army” (SNA) in March 2018.<\/p>\n

In the months and years following Afrin\u2019s occupation, the region witnessed systematic and widespread violations against its indigenous Syrian Kurdish inhabitants. Thousands of such violations have occurred. These violations, as documented by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty international, included private property confiscation, arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances, and looting.<\/p>\n

The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria reported on the continuity of this type of violations in its latest report on January 2020, in which it found that the Turkish-backed forces of SNA had \u201cperpetrated the war crime of murder and repeatedly committed the war crimes of pillaging, hostage-taking, cruel treatment, and torture, as well as serious contravention of the right to enjoyment of possessions and property\u201d.<\/p>\n

These violations which were and still are being committed in Afrin, are part of a policy of ethnic persecution aimed at wide-scale demographic change in the area, including by changing its identity and population. Many local and Syrian sources confirm that forced displacement in Afrin has affected around 65% of the region\u2019s indigenous population after Turkish army\u2019s operation “Olive Branch”, and its subsequent military occupation. The region, furthermore, hosted tens of thousands of IDPs from various Syrian regions prior to this invasion.<\/p>\n

The signatory organizations of this statement, while in strongest terms denouncing and condemning the terrorist attack which took place in Afrin during the blessed month of Ramadan; and calling for holding the perpetrators accountable, whichever party was behind the attack; call on the international community, represented by The Security Council, European Union, Arab League and NATO to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Take immediate action to protect the civilian population of Afrin, and hold the Turkish government accountable under the Fourth Geneva Convention, including its primary responsibility as an occupying power. Moreover, the safety of the population must be ensured and instances of forced displacement monitored, in addition to safeguarding the return of the indigenous population to their homes, and halting the wide-scale ethnic targeting \u201cTurkification\u201d by changing the names of locations, villages and cultural heritage sites in the area.<\/li>\n
  2. Take immediate action aimed at expelling extremist groups belonging to the Syrian National Army out of Afrin, and guaranteeing the return of all displaced people who were forced out of the area, returning confiscated property, compensating the victims and maintaining the area\u2019s<\/li>\n
  3. Issue an international resolution that forces the Turkish government to bring an end to its military occupation of all Syrian areas, within a specific timeframe.<\/li>\n
  4. Guarantee accountability for all perpetrators of human rights violations in Afrin, and pledge to compensate the victims through an independent, impartial and neutral justice procdure.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Signatory organization:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    TEVNA KURDI<\/a><\/td>\nSham organisation\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Centre Zagros pour les Droits de l’Homme<\/a><\/td>\nYEK\u00ceTIYA JIN\u00caN KURDISTAN\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Kurdish Committee for Human Rights \/ Observer<\/a><\/td>\nH C S K<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Syrians for Truth and Justice-STJ<\/a><\/td>\nCod\u00ee4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Shar for Development\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\nMahabad Organization for Humen rights MOHR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Syrian Center for the Defense of Human Rights\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\nSyrian Kurdish civil Forces Gathering<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Women Empowerment Organization\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\nXunavAssociatiom\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Lekolin Centr for Studies and Legal Researches _ Germany<\/a><\/td>\nthe syrian women council\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Hitma organization for cultural and Social Development<\/a><\/td>\nHoshin Organization for Thought and Culture<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Mahabad Organization for Human Rights\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\narmanc platforma for civil society<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Syrian Kurdish civil Forces Gathering<\/a><\/td>\nHuman rights organisations afrin-syria<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Assistance for Refugee\u2019s Children Organizatio ARCO<\/a><\/td>\nGav for relief and development\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Fraternity Foundation for Human rights FFHR-Birat\u00ee<\/a><\/td>\nRoj Kar For Relief And Development “RKRD”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    KURDISH -SWISS ALLIANCE<\/a><\/td>\nFree Yezidi Foundation<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Act For Afrin\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\nRewanka<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    The Danish Kurdish Society in Varde<\/a><\/td>\nAFRINPOST <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Kurdish Women Union<\/a><\/td>\nAfrin media center\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Kurdish Legal\u00a0 committee<\/a><\/td>\nP\u00caL- Civil Waves<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    PEACESHE-LEADER NETWORK<\/a><\/td>\nHayva Sor a kurd <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \u0645\u0646\u0638\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0637\u0628\u0627\u0621 \u063a\u0631\u0628\u064a \u0643\u0648\u0631\u062f\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646<\/a><\/td>\nKurdish Women’s Union in Syria Rodoz<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Oxford Kurdish Association (OKA)<\/a><\/td>\nHuman Rights Organization in Syria- MAF<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Afrin Platform<\/a><\/td>\nKurdish organization for human rights in Syria (DAD<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Amman Center for Human Rights Studies (ACHRS)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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