Government finalizes settlement process in Syria’s Aleppo countryside
ALEPPO, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, the Syrian government forces completed thesettlement process in two centers in Maskanah and Deir Hafer areas in Aleppo countryside, keeping the two centers in the towns of Tel Aran in the eastern countryside of Aleppo and Hayyan in the northern countryside open.
The Syrian government forces have opened several settlement centers in the cities it controls in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo.
The settlement process was comprehensive with no deadline and additional centers would be opened in the countryside, a source within the committee of the settlement process told North Press.
Only young men wanted for the compulsory military service and the reserve military service reviewed the settlement centers amidst low turnout, according to residents.
After the 30-year-old Muhammad Sa’id Daraj, a reserve military service evader, had his condition settled in Tel Aran center, he has been allowed to move among the government-held areas for six months before joining the government forces.
Daraj said the government alleged that the settlements were launched to settle conditions of those who engaged in battles against the government residing in either areas held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) or the opposition factions.
But the truth is that the settlement process targets people in the government-held areas whom security reports have been filled against them or they evaded the military services.
“The government forces’ settlement is just a propaganda aims to show the government being serious in embracing all of its citizens,” Rajab Abdurrahman, a pseudonym for a lawyer from the eastern countryside of Aleppo, told North Press.
The majority of the people who submitted for the settlement process have never carried arms against the government process.
They were either people who evaded the military reserve, civilians whom malicious reports were filled against them or state employees who were fired for different reasons, the lawyer said.
Earlier, the government security committee announced that status of over 9,000 people, military or civilians, have been settled.
“The true settlement process starts when only the government kicks off a comprehensive national dialogue that guarantees rights of all the communities in Syria,” the lawyer noted.
However, under current deteriorating security and economic conditions in the government-held areas, nobody from outside the government-held areas is willing to join the settlement process, according to the lawyer.