The attacks of the invading Turkish state and its mercenaries against North and East Syria have continued unabated throughout 2022. According to data by the Cizîre Region Human Rights Association, 21 children have been killed, and 57 others injured as a result of the Turkish attacks this year. 17 women have been killed in the Afrin region and in the Hol Camp. 9 women have been kidnapped in Afrin.

Evîn Cuma, an administrator of the Cizîre Region Human Rights Association, spoke to ANF about the violations in the region. Cuma said that the aim of the association is to document practices that violate human rights and to submit these documents to international human rights institutions. She added: “We could report violations only to a certain extent this year, we could not document all the violations. We faced problems with reaching the occupied areas as our means were limited. Many human rights activists who attempt to go to the occupied areas get arrested, tortured or threatened. These violations were reported in a United Nations (UN) report. There has been an increase in violence, rape and murder against women.”

REPORTS SENT TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Cuma noted that they sent the collected documents to the Syrian Human Rights Association, which is committed to international human rights, and that the association included human rights violations in the North-East Syria region in their reports. Cuma said: “We have sent our reports to human rights institutions and organizations such as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and Human Rights Watch (HRW). Our aim was to deliver these documents to relevant institutions. It was not enough, but at least we made efforts.”

5 REPORTS SUBMITTED TO BELGIUM HUMAN RIGHTS COURT

Cuma revealed that they have prepared five reports to be submitted to relevant international institutions and organizations this year. She gave the following information about the reports: “We have concretely documented two violations of human rights in Afrin, the injury of 11 civilians in Kobanê (a four-year-old child lost his foot), the targeting of the Kobanê bazaar, the destruction of civilian settlements, the death of five girls and the injury of four other girls as a result of an attack on an UN-affiliated education centre. All information has been gathered and we will send it to the relevant international institutions and organizations.”

NO SERIOUS DECISION HAS BEEN MADE

Cuma pointed out that no serious decision has been taken by the international organizations against the violations committed in the region and the occupied territories so far.

The human rights violations and attacks on the occupied regions and North-East Syria reported by the Cizîre Region Human Rights during the year of 2022 are as follows:

BOMBINGS

* On February 15, four children were injured as a result of an attack on Til Rifet.

* On April 6, four children were injured in shelling of the Esediye village of Zirgan.

* On February 18, a child was injured by attacks on Zirgan and lost his fingers

* On May 23, a child died in an attack on a ceremony in the region of Nubul and Zahra.

* On February 6, two children were injured as a result of a bombing in Til Temir district.

* On July 24, two girls aged 14-17 were killed by attacks on Shehba.

* On July 24, one child was injured as a result of an attack in the Um Mehermele village of Zirgan.

* On July 30, one child was injured as a result of an attack on Til Temir.

* On March 26, three children were injured as a result of an attack on Ain Issa.

* On March 22, two children were injured in attacks on Ain Issa.

* On May 18, four children were injured as a result of an attack on Ain Issa.

* On July 4, a child was injured as a result of an attack on Ain Issa.

* On May 15, a child was injured as a result of the attacks on Manbij countryside.

* On August 29, 2022, two children were killed in an attack on the village of Bêr Ereb in Manbij.

* On July 2, two children were killed as a result of an attack on the Hesen Mezin village of Manbij.

* On August 9, four children were injured in the Cirnik neighbourhood of Qamishlo.

* On August 16, three children were killed, and two others were injured in an attack on Kobanê.

* On September 13, a child got seriously injured in an attack in Shehba and lost his life.

* On September 27, five children were injured in attacks on Zirgan.

* On October 27, two children aged three and four were injured in attacks on Sherewa.

AIR STRIKES

* In August, two children lost their lives in the wake of a targeted strike on a vehicle in the Sinaa neighbourhood in Qamishlo.

* On February 9, one child was killed and another injured as a result of an airstrike on the countryside of Amude.

* On January 8, a four-year-old child lost his foot following an airstrike.

* On August 4, 6 children aged 6-15 were injured in an airstrike in Til Rifet.

* On August 19, five girls were martyred, and four others were injured as a result of an airstrike directed against a special educational institution under the supervision of the United Nations in the village of Şemûka in Hesekê.

MINE EXPLOSIONS

* On March 6, three children were injured in Til Ziêtir village of Hesekê.

* On March 2, two children aged 5 and 11 were injured in Shehba.

* On April 3, one child died, and two others were injured in Qamishlo.

* On September 7, four children were injured in Kobanê.

* On September 25, two children were injured in the Tabiyê village of Deir ez-Zor.

* On November 15, a 9-year-old child was injured in the hand in the Afrin countryside.

9 FEMICIDES IN HOL CAMP

* On April 19, two unidentified women and an Iraqi woman were found dead.

* On April 21, a Syrian woman was found dead.

* On June 16, a woman from Deir ez-Zor was found dead.

* On June 22, a woman was found dead.

* On June 23, a woman was injured as a result of blows to her arm and throat.

* On July 8, two women were killed.

* On July 17, a Syrian woman was found dead.

9 WOMEN ABDUCTED IN OCCUPIED REGIONS

* On February 4, a woman was tortured in the village of Kitix in Afrin.

* On February 27, an 18-year-old woman was arrested and raped while attempting to cross into Turkey.

* On March 20, a ransom of $20,000 was demanded from the family of a woman who was kidnapped by Turkey-backed mercenaries.

* On April 7, a 27-year-old woman died in a missile attack in Afrin.

* On April 16, a 24-year-old mother of 5 children was abducted.

* On April 21, a 19-year-old woman was abducted by Jabhat al-Shamiya.

* On May 1, a 62-year-old woman was injured as a result of an armed clash between mercenary groups.

* On May 3, a woman from the village of Tîtka in Afrin was kidnapped.

* On June 3, a woman from the Kaxre village was abducted by the Amshat mercenary group.

* On June 29, a 20-year-old woman committed suicide in Afrin.

* On July 24, a woman was kidnapped in Sherewa, Afrin.

* On August 21, two women were detained by the Turkish gendarmerie.

* On September 15, an 18-year-old woman was arrested while attempting to cross the border.

* On September 30, two women, aged 34 and 32, were kidnapped in Afrin and released in return for ransom.

7 WOMEN KILLED, 24 WOMEN INJURED

* On January 8, four women were injured in the shelling of the Qeremox village in Kobanê.

* On February 2, a woman was injured in the shelling of Zirgan.

* On February 9, two women, aged 18 and 23, were injured in the shelling of Manbij.

* On February 24, three women were injured in a drone attack on the Qamishlo-Amude road.

* On February 27, a woman was injured in the shelling of Til Temir.

* On March 31, a 42-year-old woman was injured after a landmine placed by ISIS exploded in Shehba.

* On April 15, a woman was injured in the shelling of Manbij.

* On May 30, a 31-year-old woman died, and another woman was injured after a car was attacked in Qamishlo.

* On June 2, a woman was injured in an attack on Zirgan.

* On June 2, a woman was injured as a result of a missile attack on Zirgan.

* On July 24, two women died in an artillery attack in Til Temir.

* On July 30, 4 women (two of them aged 25, others 60 and 63) were injured in an artillery attack in Til Temir.

* On July 26, a 20-year-old woman died in an artillery attack in Shehba.

* On August 4, two women, aged 23 and 24, were injured in a drone attack in Til Rifet.

* On August 9, a woman was injured in the shelling of Qamishlo.

* On August 9, a woman died as a result of a drone attack in the vicinity of the Covid-19 Hospital.

On August 16, a 40-year-old woman was injured in a drone attack in Kobanê.

* On August 24, a 21-year-old woman died in a drone attack in Til Rifet.

* On November 20, two women lost their lives in an airstrike on the Teqil Beqil village of Dêrîk.