NEWS CENTER - In the last 3 years, many crimes such as kidnapping, murder, rape, displacement, demographic change and theft have been committed in Serêkaniyê and Girê Spi, which are under the control of Turkey. The silence of the international public made these crimes routine.

 

In the last 3 years, in the cities of Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî, which came under the control of Turkey after the invasion attacks against Northern and Eastern Syria, many inhumane crimes such as abduction, rape, murder, displacement, demographic change and theft have been committed. Destruction and plunder brought insecurity and crisis in the regions that were transformed into bases of paramilitary structures under Turkish control. According to the statistics ANHA based on the data of the Cizre Region Human Rights Organisation, 429 citizens were killed and injured as a result of the attacks on Serêkaniyê and Girê Spi.

 

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

 

In the region, where crimes against humanity have become routine due to the silence of the international public, the crime of demographic change was committed, as well as the displacement of the local people and the resettlement of ISIS families. More than 100 thousand Girê Spîs are struggling with difficult economic and living conditions in Raqqa and Tebga, where they had to migrate. There are 6,450 people in Girê Spi Migrant Camp, which was established by the Autonomous Administration near the Til El Simen village in the northern countryside of Raqqa.

 

More than 200 thousand people were displaced from Serêkaniyê. While some of the immigrants were settled in the Waşûkanî and Serêkaniyê camps in Hesekê, some went to their relatives in the Cizre Region. The wheat stored in Dehlîz, Sexrat and Şergirak warehouses in Girê Spî was looted. Trying to nurture the people with hunger with the policy carried out in Serêkaniyê, Turkey closed dozens of schools and turned them into a military base. ANHA documented that 6,000 Syrian refugees from Turkey were sent to the Girê Spi Canton. The aim is to settle these refugees in houses that will later be built in the west of the canton with the support of Qatari and Chechen associations. More than 1,400 ISIS members and 400 Iraqi ISIS members were settled in Serêkaniyê.

 

CRIME TABLE

 

According to the report of the Teazir foundation covering October 9, 2019 and the end of July 2022, at least 478 people, 36 of them children and 64 of them women, were kidnapped in Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî. In the same report, it was noted that there were 293 cases of torture in prisons and that at least 5 people were tortured to death.

 

In the village of Elî Bacliye in Girê Spî countryside, it was publicized that 9 opinion leaders of the Elbû Esaf tribe had escaped. One of the abductees was battling cancer. Again, on different dates, 15 women were kidnapped.

 

According to the news of ANHA, other crimes committed are as follows:

 

* On October 7, 2021, women named Şama Feysel El Ebdullah, Teyma Îbrahîm El Eswed and Xewla Yasîn El Mela from the town of Hemam Tirmen, and Emina El Hebîb from the Teyi tribe and Ebîr Hisên El Îsa from the Elbû Esaf tribe were kidnapped on July 25.

 

* On August 10, 2021, MİT took Maya Xelef El Xelîl and kidnapped the woman with her 40-day-old baby. The women named Rewda Ebid El Ehmed from the El Tobal tribe and Zelxa El Hisên, Fatme El Kiûd and Ewş Ehmed El Iwêd from the Elî Baceliye town were kidnapped.

 

* In September 2021, 3 women were abducted in a pickup-type vehicle in front of a health clinic in the town of Silok. Among the women, only Seher Mihemed El Xelûf, a member of the El Muradat tribe, was clarified in the village of Hemam Tirkmen.

 

* On October 1, 2021, the MİT kidnapped Kefa El Erîf, this time from the village of Hewêceyê, with her husband, children and father. This was also the second case in which a woman was abducted with her baby.

 

* In its balance sheet published at the end of 2021, the Cizre Region Human Rights Organisation stated that it received 1,614 complaints from Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî about the confiscation of citizens' homes. On the other hand, complaints of 1,243 thefts, confiscation of 18 workplaces and 36 vehicles, confiscation of 51 thousand 463 decares of land were recorded.

 

* On October 3, 2021, 3 citizens were injured when paramilitary structures fighting over the bread line in front of the El Humsi bakery in Girê Spî opened fire on each other.

 

* On June 30, 2022, in the El Ebra District of Serêkaniyê, two group members on motorcycles killed the jeweler named Hemade El Berhawî in front of his house and stole the bag full of gold and money next to him.

 

* On July 2, 2022, the group affiliated with the Al Hamza Brigade opened fire in Serêkaniyê on the grounds that he gave ice cream to a youth named Hemîd Hamid El Xilêf for free. Condemnations to this event rained like an avalanche.

 

* On September 15, 2022, an Iraqi boy named Yasîn Reed El Mehmûd was murdered in Serêkaniyê after he was raped by a member of the group "Siqûr El Şemal". After this incident, the people in Serêkaniyê took to the streets against Turkey.

 

* On October 5, 2022, a child exiled by Turkey from Dera to Serêkaniyê was kidnapped, and a ransom of $20,000 was demanded from his family in exchange for his release.

 

* As a result of the attacks carried out by Turkey almost every day, 27 people lost their lives and 77 were injured in the western countryside of Eyn Îsa and Girê Spî.

 

* It was documented that 113 houses were plundered in Girê Spî. As a result of targeting the villages of Seyda, Mielek, Hoşan, Sewan and Erîda, thousands of acres of land were burned and dozens of houses were plundered.