Wave of protests rocks Syria’s Afrin for killing child
ALEPPO, Syria (North Press) – A wave of protests rocked on Wednesday evening the city of Afrin and the town of Jindires in northwestern Syria following the killing of a 16-year-old child by an individual settler from Idlib.
Hundreds of residents from Afrin and Jindires protested in front of the Turkish-backed Military Hospital headquarters in Afrin city demanding to hold the child’s killer accountable, a local source said.
The source added that the killer was a worker at the bakery of the child’s father. After slaughtering him, the killer threw the body of child into a well.
The motive behind the crime, according to the source, was that the child’s father had fired the killer from his job at the bakery, the matter prompted the latter to slaughter the child on the second day.
The majority-Kurdish region of Afrin has been under the occupation of Turkey and its affiliated Syrian National Army (SNA) factions since March 2018 following a large-scale Turkish military operation dubbed “Olive Branch”.
The operation resulted in the killing and injury of thousands, and the displacement of about 300,000 of the original Kurdish inhabitants. As for those who chose to remain in their homeland and not to flee, they have been subjected to widespread human rights violations.
On March 20, 2023, militants of Ahrar al-Sharqiya, a faction affiliated with the Turkish-backed SNA, killed five Kurds and wounded others in Jindires for celebrating Newroz.