Saying that a military patrol connected with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) raided the house of a prominent member of the Deir ez-Zor countryside, the Bakara tribe issued a statement in response to the call to help from a civilian. Fearing extensive fires, the later refused to turn in the weapon he used to guard his crops.
According to the statement, a copy of which Rudaw Street received, the military patrol sent in significant reinforcements and forcibly arrested Sheikh Hajem after he refused to turn in. This resulted in a verbal fight between them.
The declaration verified that Sheikh Hajem al-Bashir gave Bakara tribal members instructions on how to challenge SDF’s hegemony and rule. Responding to the request, they stopped all highways, lit tires ablaze in the western Deir ez-Zor countryside’s villages of Shaqra, al-Husan, al-Ji’a, Muhaimidah, Safira, al-Kasra, al-Jazra, and al-Hawaij. Following multiple mediations, the SDF tried to pacify the Bakara young and got in touch with Sheikh Hajem al-Bashir, who opposed any truce and insisted on the evacuation of PYD cadres from all Bakara villages in the Deir ez-Zor area.
“Stole wealth, arrested young people, humiliated the elderly and the sheikh, and practiced a policy of starving by burning agricultural crops,” said Al-Mahlamiyya, Harb, Adwan, Al-Walda, Al-Afadla, Anza Bani Sab’a, Al-Naim, Al-Khawatenah, Al-Dulaim, Al-Sharabiyin, and Jais,” confronting the SDF and igniting a revolution against the rule of the “Qandil” cadres in the entire eastern region.