NEWS CENTRE - According to January data from the Efrîn-Syria Human Rights Organisation, 1,220 people were killed in North and East Syria, and 2,000 were abducted by gangs. 

 

Numerous human rights violations have occurred in attacks by HTS, DAISH and gangs affiliated with Turkey against North and East Syria since 6 January. According to January data from the Efrîn-Syria Human Rights Organisation, hundreds of people were killed and hundreds more abducted. 

 

Militias killed more than 1,200 people in the Şêxmeqsûd and Eşrefiyê neighbourhoods of Aleppo, 15 people in Raqqa, and 5 people in Kobanê. 

 

Bodies in hospital morgues

 

He added that a baby died in Hesekê after being taken there due to the use of tear gas at the Martyr Khalid Fecir Hospital. In addition, more than 270 bodies remain unburied in the Cib el-Kube district of Aleppo. Some were buried in the Niqêrîn a Nû cemetery without their families' knowledge.

 

Thousands of people were abducted

 

According to the report, more than 2,000 people, including women and children, were abducted in Şêxmeqsûd and Eşrefiyê, while three young men and a girl were abducted in Efrîn. A lawyer travelling to Aleppo from Til Hasil was released three days after being abducted. Furthermore, Heyva Sor a Kurd recorded that three of its employees were abducted during this period. 

 

According to a report by the Efrîn-Syria Human Rights Organisation, four women were murdered in Efrîn in January; the perpetrators have not yet been identified. A young man was tortured and murdered in Tebqa, one person was murdered while trying to leave Tebqa for Efrîn, and another was murdered while trying to leave Raqqa.