Sabbagh sends 37 letters to UN Secretary General, international parliamentary bodies condemning Turkish regime crime of cutting off drinking water to Hasaka

Damascus, (ST) –   People’s Assembly Speaker Hammoudeh Sabbagh has sent 37 letters on behalf of the People’s Assembly to the UN Secretary-General, heads of the international parliamentary unions and regional and Arab parliamentary associations in which he denounced the continued crime perpetrated by the Turkish regime and its mercenaries which is cutting off the drinking water for more than a million citizens in Hasaka governorate.He called  for exerting pressure on it to stop its crimes against the citizens.

Sabbagh said in his letters that,” we at the People’s Assembly express our denunciation and condemnation of the continued heinous crime committed by the Turkish occupation which cuts off water from Alouk Station that is considered the main source for providing drinking water to more than a million people in Hasaka City and the residential compounds affiliated to it.This has started from the 30th of the last month.”

Sabbagh pointed out in his letters that, since the Turkish regime occupied Ras al-Ayn area in which Alouk Station is located, it has cut off thewater 17 times, and no one can remain silent while the systematic and massive human rights violations against the safe civilian population continue in the city of Hasaka and its environs.

Sabbagh affirmed that the Turkish regime’s use of water as a weapon of war against the Syrian civilians to achieve political and military gains without taking into consideration the minimum humanitarian needs of the locals in this area is considered a war crime and a blatant aggression and violation of all the international pacts, conventions and norms.

He added that these immoral and inhuman practices outrageously contradict the principles and goals of the UN and the provisions of the international law and the international humanitarian law, as well as the relevant Security Council’s resolutions.

In his letters, Sabbagh called on the UN, representatives of the UN member states, heads of the international parliamentary unions and regional and Arab parliamentary associations to condemn and denounce the Turkish aggression and occupation of parts of the Syrian territories in general.

Sabbagh called also to condemn and denounce the process of repeatedly cutting off the drinking water for more than a million citizens from the locals of Hasaka City, and to exert all possible forms of pressure on the Turkish regime to stop this heinous crime and to re-operate the Alouk water Station to allow water to reach the locals in Hasaka and the surrounding residential compounds, and put an end to the violations of the occupied Turkish regime. 

Raghda Sawas