EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS: “More Kurdish civilians were killed by PKK planted IEDs than by the liberation of Afrin”
Documenting the impacts of landmines in N. Syria. After surviving multiple assassination attempts, Ahmad Misto has to survive defusing landmines which have caused countless civilian casualties.
Human rights activist, Ahmad Misto, or better known as Abu Aslan al-Kurdi, from Afrin's Ma'batli district says. And yes, many Syrian Kurds refer to the 2018 Turkish/SNA operation as the liberation of Afrin. They have enough complaints about the brigades, but still call it liberation. That was a surprise to me too, the first time I visited Afrin in March 2021.
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