Baladi News
The governorates of Deir al-Zor and al-Raqqa east of Syria have been witnessing catastrophic conditions since the beginning of the main operations by the Kurdish militias in the vicinity of al-Raqqa along with the fierce bombardment campaign the coalition is carrying out on Deir al-Zor and al-Raqqa, which resulted in dozens of massacres that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians. In this campaign, the regime along with Russia and the coalition are competing to kill the largest number of civilians under the pretext of combating ISIS; they also prevented the civilians from the basics of life such as water, food, electricity and medicine, not to forget the daily bombardment that targets civilians indiscriminately, then came Iran and topped the bombardment with launching several Scud missiles on the region.
Those attacks have pushed a lot of civilians to leave ISIS-held regions towards Idlib and the regions under the control of Euphrates Shield in an attempt to reach Turkey and probably Europe, but to get there they have to pass through regime or Kurdish-held regions and a lot of people prefer the Kurdish-held regions, thinking that they are safer than the regime-held ones. However, both of them are actually on the same level of criminality and inhumanity.
Many families have been arrested by "SDF" militias and sent to places that are more close to arresting camps than refugee camps and there the refugees are being interrogated and subjected to violence, torture, humiliation and robbery under the pretext of affiliating to ISIS even if they were against it in reality.
The separatist militias also are taking advantage of the wave of displacement by arresting the youth among fears of recruiting them to fight in al-Raqqa or handing them over to the regime.
The worst aspect of humiliation the displaced people are being subjected to is their need to a "guarantor" to leave the camps of "SDF" which indicates that the separatist militias consider the Syrians as strangers in their country.