#yallasouriya 7:01 am on July 13, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment ziadmajed Help Syria now. Tomorrow it may be too late | Yassin al-Haj Saleh gu/p/3h7v3/tw via gu/p/3h7v3/tw via @guardian Dear friends, Three months ago, I left the city of Damascus, where life had become too oppressive, to go to the “liberated” area of East Ghouta. An area that had 2 million inhabitants before the uprising, East Ghouta is now populated by only around one million. It was a base from which the rebels headed towards the capital, but is now completely besieged by the regime’s forces due to renewed support from Russia and Iran, and the arrival of Iran-sponsored Iraqi and Lebanese militias. During the past three months, I have personally witnessed the staggering lack of arms, ammunition, and even food for the fighters. Many of them would get two meals a day at most, and their situation would have been immeasurably worse had they not been local residents, protecting their own towns and families, and living off their own kin. The cities and towns that I have seen or lived in during these months are subjected to daily and random air strikes and mortar and rocket shelling. Victims, mostly civilians, fall every day. In a centre for civil defence where I lived for a month I used to see all the bodies brought in. Some were indistinguishable remains, others belonged to children, and among the victims was a six-month fetus lost by a terrified mother. Not a single day passed during that month without victims; two or three usually, but nine on one day, 28 on another, and 11 on a third. Besides civilians, several fighters are killed every day by the arms of a superior power, with superior support. Read this moving testimony gu/p/3h7v3/tw
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 00:42:01 +0000
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