Sabbagh sends letters to UN and speakers of parliaments on Turkish regime’s crimes against humanity in Hassaka

DAMASCUS, Jul.18, (ST)- Today, the Speaker of the People’s Assembly [Parliament], Hammouda Sabbagh sent 60 letters to the Speakers of Arab, regional and international parliaments, the UN Secretary-General and its High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Sabbagh expressed, in his letters, the People’s Assembly’s condemnation of the ongoing heinous crime committed by the Turkish regime and its mercenaries of cutting off -for several months-the water of Alouk station which is the main and only source of  drinking water for more than a million of people in Hassaka city and its vicinity.

The Assembly’s Speaker condemned the Turkish regime’s aggressive and provocative practices and behaviors which are based on using water as a weapon of war against safe Syrian civilians, as “crimes against humanity” which violate all ethical, social, cultural and human standards, as severely violate all international conventions, laws, norms and resolutions, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

He added that these practices breach the UN Charter, the essence and content of international humanitarian law and the charter of human rights

He called on the Speakers of Arab, regional and international parliaments, the UN Secretary-General and its High Commissioner for Human Rights to assume their full ethical, legal and humanitarian responsibilities and duties towards what is happening in Hassaka city and its vicinity and towards the suffering of the safe people, especially in the light of the unprecedented rise of temperatures in Hassaka province besides the spread of many diseases and epidemics due to the severe shortage of water, especially drinking water.

Sabbagh called on them to condemn the illegal and immoral behaviors of the Turkish regime and to exercise all forms of pressure on it and its mercenaries in the region to stop these arbitrary and inhuman measures and to re-operate Alouk station immediately with its highest capacity.

Basma Qaddour