Displaced Syrians refuse to return to areas controlled by PYD

Displaced Syrians who were forced to flee their homes and live in refugee camps north of Syria have refused to return to their towns controlled by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, PYD in north Aleppo, saying the organisation has acted as an occupation force and took part in killing their children with Russia and the Syrian regime.

A member of the local council of Tal-Rafaat city, Ghassan Derbas, who lives in the Rayyan refugee camp told Anadolu news agency that the PYD does not recognise law or ethics.

“It has wreaked havoc in our towns and looted all the vital facilities, including the local council institutions. The organisation has also moved the contents of factories to their stronghold in Afrin, north-west of Aleppo and seized citizens’ private properties” he said, adding that all the violations committed by the organisation have been documented and will be brought to courts”.

Derbas said the displaced do not recognise the federation announced by the group last month.

“We will not return to our town until this terrorist group gets out of it,” Derbas said. “Arabs and Kurds have lived together for many years, but the PYD terrorists tarnished this brotherhood and came to divide the society”.

The PYD, which is the Syria affiliate of the Kurdish Workers Party, PKK, proclaimed a federal system in the areas under its control in northern Syria earlier this month.

Media activist, Majd al-Halabi said he had fled his hometown of Tel-Refaat about a month and a half ago, 15 days after the Russian and PYD bombardment.