For the tenth day in a row, the SDF militias cut off electricity to the liberated countryside of Raqqa governorate

For the tenth day in a row, the US-backed SDF militias continue to cut off electricity for the people in the liberated countryside of Raqqa, in light of the pressure it exerts against the citizens, especially farmers.

The farmers’ crops were damaged when irrigation water pumping stopped due to the electricity cut.

Abdullah Abd al-Hadid, head of the Musharifah Ghanem Al-Ali Farmer Association in the liberated countryside of Raqqa governorate, described the power cut as catastrophic for the life of the region and its people.

He said that stopping the irrigation project now due to cutting off electricity again has serious repercussions and effects on the region’s farmers who have spent since the beginning of the wheat growing season and up to now more than one billion Syrian pounds as the price of seeds, fertilizer, diesel, irrigation, plowing and other requirements of the agricultural process.

Othman Muhammad Al-Hamid of the Al-Aasiya Farmer Association in the liberated countryside said that cutting off electricity and the resulting stoppage of the “Al-Mughala” project that extends the Al-Sabkha area is a cessation of life in the agricultural lands located within the association’s area and its area of about 50 thousand dunams due to the vital importance of irrigation water to it.

Jassim Al-Mouh, a damaged farmer in the liberated countryside, considered that the electricity cut primarily targets the producers of grain, especially wheat.

The Governor of Raqqa, Abd al-Razzaq Khalifa, stated that the SDF militias stole the cables of electrical networks in order to permanently cut off electricity to our people in the liberated countryside of Raqqa governorate as part of its aggressive practices against citizens.

Governor Khalifa said that the liberated countryside of the governorate affected by the electricity cut includes about 70 villages located on the right bank of the Euphrates River, with a distance of 47 km, starting from the town of Shannan to the village of Al-Suwayd.

O. al-Mohammad