by thefreeonline July 9th 2023 Mural Report by Nalin Ali at North Press Agency
Large painting in Qamishli depicts suffering of Afrin people
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Social Affairs and Labor Board, affiliated with the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), presented on Sunday a large 58-meter-long painting in the city of Qamishli, northeast Syria.
The painting, which is entitled “The Story of the Land of Olives” and is displayed at the 12 March Stadium, portrays the fate of Afrin people following the Turkish invasion of Afrin region in 2018.
In March 2018, Turkish forces and their affiliated opposition factions of the Syrian National Army (SNA) invaded Afrin, following a military operation dubbed “Olive Branch”, to push the People’s Protection Units (YPG) out of the region under the pretext of threatening Turkey’s national security.
The invasion, which ended after a 58-day resistance, displaced 300,000 people, 80% of the Kurdish majority inhabitants of Afrin. The Turkish objective , boasted of by President Erdogan, is to Turkify Afrin, and later all of North Syria, banning the Kurdish language, customs, schools, monuments and history and terrorizing the remaining inhabitants and settling their mainly Arab jihadi mercenary gangs, under the banner of the SNA.
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The invasion and ethnic cleansing of Afrin, with NATO arms and permission, clearly brteaks the Genocide Convention, an international treaty with has 152 state parties that criminalizes genocide . “The Convention defines genocide as any of five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.[4] Wikipedia
The Afrin Genocide is completely ignored by both the West and Russia, who see rather to profit by placating Turkish regime. Not only is Afrin clearly a Genocide under International Law but it is much worse than Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, which sought to protect rather than exterminate an ethnic Russian population.
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The painting depicted the history of the city of Afrin and the suffering of its inhabitants during the years of war, as well as their displacement.
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Rustam Youssef, an official at the AANES Social Affairs and Labor Board of Afrin, said that they presented to the relevant authorities the idea of creating a painting which embodies the stages that the city of Afrin went through and the difficulties it faced during the period before and after its occupation.
Youssef explained that the artwork that was displayed was 58 meters long and 170 centimeters high.
“The artwork represents 58 days of resistance by the people of Afrin against the occupation,” he said. The painting was divided into four sections, which depicts the city of Afrin, and its archaeological sites and nature, in addition to the occupation and the suffering that followed.
Reporting by Nalin Ali
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