West-Backed Mercenaries Turn Dareya houses into Prisons for Children, Whole Families
DAMASCUS, (ST)_ The peaceful people of Dareya in Damascus Countryside have suffered a lot from the threats and criminal practices of the armed terrorist groups which, with the backing of some international, regional and Arab states, have been trying for more than eighteen months to undermine the Syrian state and weaken the Syrian Arab Army. These attempts have been destined to failure thanks to the steadfastness of the Syrian people and the successes achieved by our hero army in confronting terrorists in different parts of the country.
In some under construction buildings in Dareya, terrorists positioned themselves to launch their armed operations which are forbidden by God and law. They kidnapped, tortured and killed civilians for their only guilt of loving their homeland even more than their own lives. They also turned many houses into prisons for whole families and caused fear and panic to all, especially children who spent unforgettable times of horror while their parents trying in vain to calm them down.
Many children and their families have been trapped for days in their houses in Dareya by the terrorists without being allowed to leave. They were deprived all of a sudden of enjoying their peaceful life and happiness as every corner of their houses and district carries their lovely memories and laughter.
The brave Syrian Army entered Dareya to clear it from terrorists and they were able to free some of the hostages used by armed terrorist groups as human shields .
Qusay, Abeer, and Mohammad, three kids, spoke to SANA reporter, Shahidi Ajib, about their suffering from the terrorism of the mercenaries who came to ruin people’s lives. They stressed that they won’t forget the sounds of the bullets fired by terrorists on everything in their houses and will keep remembering the words of threats by the terrorists to all who resist their orders to leave their places.
“God protect you”, chanted Qusay, 9, addressing one of our brave soldiers who saved him and his family from the criminality of terrorists groups in his Dareya house where he was seized together with his family and many others as hostages.
The army moved Qusay, his mother and six of his family to a safer place, passing the eastern orchards of Dareya.
“The terrorists shot fire on the house, while my family and I were inside..The bullets shattered the windows of the house and caused cracks to the walls and at the first glance, we thought that the house was about to be collapsed on our heads,” said Qusay.
Abeer, 11, whose confident smile didn’t leave her baby-face, said with great excitement for seeing the army coming, “we impatiently waited the army to arrive to save us from the terrorists who imprisoned us in one room and threatened us of killing.”
Mohammad, 14, told SANA how the terrorists attacked his house and asked his family to leave; so as to occupy the house and use it as a place to perpetrate their criminal acts and attack the army personnel.
“ When we refused to comply with their demands, they imprisoned us in a room and closed the door..The tears of my mother couldn’t stop as she feared that they may kill us. They randomly and heavily shot fire inside the rooms so as to frighten us. The shots caused many holes in the walls,” Mohammad said.
The armed terrorist groups persisted in terrorizing children and use civilians as human shields. Even the minaret of the nine-years old “al-Tawba” Mosque, which overlooks the road leading to the outskirts of Dareya didn’t survive their criminality. The terrorists broke its doors and windows and desecrated its corridors.
The road, on both sides of which many shops as well as small and medium-sized institutions were built to activate trade, economic and social activities in the city, was also targeted by the terrorists who destroyed, sabotaged, stole and looted many of the shops and turned some of them into factories for manufacturing explosive devices, and for perpetrating terrorist attacks against innocent civilians.
H. Moustafa