Citizens in Damascus Urge International Community to Pressure Terrorists over Blocking Water Supplies
DAMASCUS, (ST)- A number of Damascus locals on Thursday gathered in front of the People’s Assembly building to protest the terrorists’ crime of blocking water supplies to Damascus and depriving five million citizens from drinking water.
Terrorists affiliated to Jabhat al-Nusra blew up a water pipeline in Wadi Barada area in Damascus Countryside and seized Ein Figa water Spring, the only source of drinking water for Damascus citizens. The terrorists also polluted the spring with diesel.
A number of People’s Assembly members and some officials took part in the protest, which aimed at putting pressure on the international community and the countries that support and fund terrorism to practice their influence on the terrorists in Wadi Barada Valley as to re-pump water to the city. .
Participants in the rally condemned the terrorists’ acts, stressing that “cutting off water supply to Damascus and its suburbs is a war crime.”
They protestors carried banners denouncing the international community’s silence on such a horrible crime and pleading that the children and all people of Syria have the right to have access to drinking water.
The technical team of the General Establishment of Drinking Water and Sewerage of Damascus and Damascus Countryside have been working around the clock for more than a month now to supply Damascus city with water from alternative sources.
Participants in the rally handed a letter of protest to Speaker of the People’s Assembly Hadiyeh Abbas demanding that the Assembly could help in delivering it to international parliaments and the international community to let their voice heard so that the water cutoff crime could be stopped.
A similar letter was also handed to the UN Resident Representative in Syria, with the protesters warning that if the cutoff of the water supply continues, a “real human catastrophe” might emerge.
On her part, Abbas stressed that the People’s Assembly demands that all world parliaments, human rights organizations and the UN work to pressure the countries and governments supporting the terrorists so that they stop emboldening them and encouraging them to commit more appalling crimes.
Hamda Mustafa