Yazan Shahdawi – Hama

The Security Committee in Hama issued a decision in mid-May this year to transfer the property of those opposed to the regime and its security wanted persons to state property, where the regime has the right to control and act fully on the basis of the decision issued by the Qatari leadership of the Arab Baath Socialist Party in Damascus in mid-2018 to transfer all property of those opposed to the regime and their families to public property, the proceeds of which go back to the regime’s treasury.

According to sources in Hama provincial council, Hama al-Youm learned that the regime had placed its hand on the property of its opponents in the northern countryside of Hama province in the areas it controlled in late 2018 to transfer all their private property to the property of the provincial council.

 Committee requires that all properties such as agricultural land, houses and shops for the opposition be transferred to the ownership of both the Hama Provincial Council and the Baath Party branch and therefore have the right to sell them, dispose of them or place them in the hands of investors in the Syrian regime for annual investment.

Abu Yamn, a resident of Murk city in the northern countryside of Hama, who fled to Hama in 2013, says that when he wanted to return to his home city of Murk after regime control, he was only allowed to obtain security approvals from the four branches and papers proving his property within the city.

When he reviewed the security branches, he began investigations and security studies with him about the reason for their displacement to Hama city, and his work there, in addition to security studies about his three young sons and their political opinions.

Because of the departure of his eldest son Yamen to Idlib with Syrian opposition factions when syrian regime forces stormed Murk in the last battle for his control, both the Military Security and Air Security Branch refused to grant him security approval in his return to Murk, and told him that his property and the property of his eldest son would be transferred to the state treasury unless his eldest son surrendered himself within six months, that thing which Abu Yamn rejected.

He added that the party division located in the city of Murk, loyal to the government of the regime and dealing with the security branches of the city residents, submitted comprehensive reports on all the city’s residents who are opposed to the regime and their families, to prevent them from returning to the city and to transfer their property to the regime according to the last decision.

Abu Yamen said the decision prevents more than 40% of the city’s residents from returning to it, as well as other areas such as Latamneh, Kafr Zita and others known for their opposition to the Syrian regime at the beginning of the Syrian revolution and their children joining the fighting factions with the Syrian opposition.

Officers in the branches of the regime to offer to invest the land of the wanted people of the regime in exchange for approval to return to the city, and the investment contracts amount to more than five years free of charge, which has recently been widely rumored in Murk.

He pointed out that this decision directly seeks to change the demographics of these areas and fortify them from opponents of the regime to ensure them for years to come under the auspices and loyalties of the Syrian regime, and not to return the manifestations of opposition to them.

 in Murk have also begun to buy buildings despite their destruction, and to give them new homes in the Salam neighborhood of Mashaa al-Arbaeen in Hama.

Commercially, these brokers are buying these destroyed buildings from the people at barely as low prices as “Fifteen million Syrian pounds”, while the prices of these houses
after reconstruction amount to more than 30 million lire.

Translated by hamatoday correspondent Jihad al-Haj