26-10-2013: More than 100,000 children aged under five are now at risk of polio in Deir El Zour province alone, according to the latest report from the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organizations. The steadily rising epidemic of diseases across the regime-besiegedliberated areas of Syria, including but not limited to polio, typhoid, leishmaniasis (a flesh-eating bug) and jaundice, are caused by the ongoing crippling regime siege on these areas, which has seen Assads forces cutting off supplies of food, humanitarian aid, medicine and fuel, as well as water supplies, to liberated towns, cities, villages and districts, as part of a policy of collective punishment of the civilian population. Malnutrition is now endemic in most of these areas, with the numbers of people dying of starvation rising steadily; infants and children are the worst affected due to their physical inability to tolerate chronic malnutrition. In Moadamiyeh in Damascus province alone, over 3,000 people - a quarter of the remaining population - are now suffering from chronic malnutrition, with the number rising as the siege continues. Although such a policy is illegal under international law, the UN continues to work closely with the Assad regime, issuing no condemnation of Assads man-made famine or other internationallyproscribed crimes against humanity perpetrated by the regime against the civilian population.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:29:18 +0000
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