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2022-03-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Yutes join military groups to evade compulsory military service
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ALEPPO, Syria (North Press) – Salah Qarqanawi, a 38-year-old resident of Salaheddine neighborhood in Aleppo city, north Syria, is working as a bus driver. He carried guns for seven years when he joined a military unit affiliated with the Military Academic in Aleppo in order to evade the compulsory military service.
Qarqanawi said he preferred to join a military group and work for fixed hours a day near his family rather than join the compulsory military service and move to another Syrian governorate.
In 2012, the opposition members entered his neighborhood and he was compelled to displace along with his family to al-Hamdaniyah neighborhood in Aleppo, and in June 2015, he joined the al-Forsan military group, affiliated with the Syrian government.
At the three first years of joining the military groups, he and other youths had privileges. They used to get food baskets and diesel very easily. He was paid 50,000 SYP in addition to some more money when he stood at a checkpoint, he said.
But, it has been a year since they get no salary at all “for unknown reasons”, he added.
“Our commander told us that the matter of salary is related to the Damascus-based Administrative Department 217 in charge of our military unit.”
“I could not hand over my weapon because I am still wanted by the government forces to join the compulsory military service. Therefore, I move among the security points deployed in the city as necessary,” he noted.
WAITING
Rami Eid, a pseudonym for a 25-year-old man of Sayf al-Dawla neighborhood. He evaded the compulsory military service and then joined a group affiliated with the popular committees, which in turn follow the Military Security Branch since 2014).
Fearful of being killed in the first battle in case he joined the military service, Eid preferred to be a member at the checkpoint and be near his family and friends.
Eid works as a mechanic in his free time. He awaits for the settlement process decision because he evaded the compulsory military service six years ago. He hopes his service at the checkpoints would be included so that he is considered as a graduate of the compulsory military service and go back to his normal life as a civilian.
Eid said the years he fought the opposition factions went “in vain” because he couldn’t get married and have children.
Given Eid is wanted to enlist in the compulsory military service, his group [at the checkpoint] stopped paying him his salary. “After the government’s interest ended, they get rid of us and they do not enlist our names in the settlement process as members who served the group.”
DECEIVED
On February 20, the Syrian government opened two settlement process centers in Deir Hafer and Maskana towns in the east of Aleppo to settle the status of the wanted people. But, many people avoid visiting the centers fearful of being arrested given some who went there went missing as local people said.
Amjad Sharabati, 35, a man of al-Ashrafiya neighborhood joined the local defense forces in a settlement process in 2018 because he had evaded the compulsory military service.
In September 2018, the Syrian government issued a settlement process and settled the status of 713 wanted youths of the local defense forces, according to sources of the local defense forces themselves.
In early January 2022, Sharabati was shocked that he and 400 other comrades were ordered to move to Draij village in Rif Dimashq to enlist in the compulsory military service.
Sharabati now serves in the Ninth Brigade in al-Sanamayn district in the northern countryside of Daraa as a soldier of the Syrian government forces. “I really wanted to serve in my hometown but I was put under the full authority of the government after I gave them my ID and my military service book.”
Reporting by Mo’taz Shamta
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