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I've been able to confirm reports of pillaging (a war crime) in the ongoing Turkish-led offensive on NE Syria. According to sources inside the Turkish-backed factions, Syrian fighters have confiscated private homes, stolen cars, gold, mobile phones, cash.
The fighters were allowed to loot offices of local admin & capture materiel left behind by the SDF, but attempted to limit looting of private property by setting up checkpoints. "But no one can stop the mighty Syrian people," jokingly said a fighter deployed in Tel Abyad.
Fighters are breaking into homes and stealing valuables. If locals did not flee, they are threatened at gunpoint to hand over property. Fighters often accuse those whom they're robbing of having ties to the PYD/YPG, even though those individuals fled during the offensive.
Syrian fighters tell me large items, commonly looted in previous ops, such as fridges, couches, aren't stolen. No land route from the area to other than through Turkey. Instead, they steal smaller items. Here women describe having gold & cash stolen by fighters from Aleppopic.twitter.com/JLa0xmLoaE
Sorry, #GOP don't care. Right @LindseyGrahamSC?
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