Turkish forces and their allied gangs have killed Nebîha Shexo’s husband and are not even allowing her to see the body. Shexo said she couldn’t “take any more of the hell that was [her] life” and migrated to Shehba.
The invading Turkish state and their allied gangs continue to attack civilians in occupied Afrin. The city residents have had to live with invaders for some time now, and most can’t accept this violent life full of atrocities imposed upon them, and migrate to Shehba at the first chance they get. A woman named Nebîha Shexo, among the latest migrants, spoke of the atrocious practices she witnessed in the city.
GANGS KILLED HER HUSBAND
Nebîha Shexo said her husband was wounded in a bombing during the Turkish state attacks against Afrin: “Where we used to live had been torn down. My husband was wounded in the bombing and was taken in for treatment by the Heyva Sor A Kurd. He was released after a few days.”
NO INFORMATION ON HER HUSBAND
With the invasion, Shexo stayed in the city with her family because they didn’t have a car: “We stayed in the city center because we couldn’t leave the city. Turkish soldiers and their gangs took my husband by force to the council they formed and made him work there. One day, he didn’t come back. I went to where they put him to work, to get information. They said my husband was in an accident and had been taken to Turkey for treatment. But later I learned that the gangs took my husband and killed him in torture. I looked for my husband for so long, but I couldn’t learn of his fate. In the end, I understood that I wouldn’t even find his body and went to the Kefer Dele village in Jindirese. I stayed there for a month.”
LOOTING CONTINUES
Shexo said in the 7 months she stayed in Afrin, she witnessed many inhumane practices: “Many civilians were abducted, be them children, women or the elderly. Their families would be held for ransom. Civilians were tortured. All the farmers’ harvest was confiscated. Olive trees were cut down. Families of gangs brought in from Eastern Ghouta were settled in civilians’ homes.”
WALKED FOR TWO DAYS
Nebiha Shexo said she decided to flee with her children after her husband was murdered: “I looked for a way out of Afrin for a long time, but there was no chance. In the end I went to a gang group and paid them $ 650, and they let me go up to the Sherawa border. I walked for two days, it was very difficult. After the rough walk, I arrived in the Birj Al Qas village of Sherawa. Then I went to the Marate village in Ehdas, where my sister lives.”
Nebîha Shexo stressed that they are resolved to continue resisting.
