JINHA

AMED – Recently, drug gangs consists of people from out of the neighborhoods have begun to appear in the streets of Amed’s Sur district. The residents of the town say they will keep watch by forming their self-defense if measures haven’t been taken against the gangs.

After self-government resistance in the Sur district of Amed, drug gangs have begun to roam around the town along with destruction and harassment. The curfew has continued to be imposed in the four neighborhoods of the district after the 103-day resistance ended on March. There is checkpoint in each street. But the people in the town have disappointed the policy of displacement and now they have faced the drug gangs in the town.

The citizens, who live in Sur, state that police have patrolled in the streets like brigand and questioned the people by saying, “I don’t like your type” and arbitrarily beaten them. The citizens say many young people have been subjected to battery and recently some people, who have been brought from out of the neighborhoods, are watching the streets.

The residents of the town state that these suspicious people give drugs to youth and children and they do that under police supervision. The residents say, “Police often greet these people and talk to them. The smell of marijuana is in the every street, we cannot breathe due to the smell in the streets. Something should be done against them.

The citizens, who don’t want to give their names, point out that they don’t feel safe in the streets. They say, “We will keep watch by forming our self-defense in the streets in order to protect our children if measures haven’t been taken against the gangs.”

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