SDF militia shoots dead 4 citizens and wounds others demonstrating against its criminal practices in Manbij in Aleppo countryside

Four citizens were killed and 10 others wounded during the suppression of  a  demonstrations against the US-backed  “SDF” militia, that took place in the city of Manbij in the northern countryside of Aleppo in denunciation of its criminal practices against civilians and the forcible recruitment of young men  by force of arms with the aim of fighting in its ranks.

Local sources reported to SANA that armed men from the “SDF militia” shot directly at civilians who went out in demonstrations in the city of Manbij in the northern countryside to protest against the militia’s kidnapping of young men and driving them to training camps to subsequently engage them into the fighting in its ranks. The shooting caused the death of  4 civilians and the wounding of 10 others.

The sources indicated that the demonstrators blocked the main roads and the international road between Hasakah and Aleppo with burning tires and stones. Other demonstrators attacked armed militia checkpoints in the city amid a general strike in the city of Manbij. 

They added that civilians burnt one of the SDF militia’s headquarters in the vicinity of Al-Yasti town and captured one of the militia’s points there.

During the past few days, the “SDF militia” has stepped up its raid in the areas it occupies on the Syrian Jazeera and kidnapped dozens of young men in the countryside of Deir Ezzor, Raqqa, Hasakah and Aleppo, with the aim of forcibly recruiting them to fight in its ranks.

Inas Abdulkareem