An exhibition documenting the terrorist acts that affected Maaloula and Nikolskoy in Dar al-Assad
Damascus (ST): A documentary exhibition entitled “Maaloula Nikolskoy, Joint Destinies” opened yesterday in the exhibition hall at Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts, on the sidelines of the fifth Syrian-Russian joint meeting to follow up on the international conference on the return of refugees and displaced Syrians.
The exhibition documents, through a series of photographs, the terrorist acts against the monastery of Saint Thecla in the countryside of Damascus and the Nikolo Vasilevsky monastery in the town of Nikolskoy Donbas, and the systematic destruction of churches and their cultural and religious icons and sacred contents in both cities.
The exhibition documented with pictures the forms of terrorism from the detention of the nuns in the monastery of Saint Thecla for a period of 100 days in 2013 until they were rescued with the children from the orphanage by the Syrian Arab Army and placed in a safe place in Damascus.
In a similar scenario, the exhibition’s pictures showed the destruction of churches and icons in the Donbas, the killing of nuns and refugees in the monastery in July 2022, so that the Russian army was able to rescue and take out the elderly and refugees with children to safe places.
In a statement, the head of the delegation of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Minister of Foreign Affairs Natalia Nikonovna confirmed that what happened in Syria is the same as what happened in Donbas, which confirms that the Ukrainian forces are using the same systematic terrorist method in their work to target the country’s culture and civilization , intimidate children and civilians through armed groups that worked to lay mines in homes and infrastructure of major cities.
The adviser to the Russian Cultural Center in Syria, Ali Al-Ahmad, pointed out that terrorism targets pluralism and open thought with the aim of stopping cultural production, which in turn activates economic production and societal development.
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