Two Russian researchers: cutting off the water supply of the governorate of Hasakah by the Turkish occupation is a crime against humanity

Vice President of the Russian Diplomats Association and Assistant Vice President of the Russian Federation Council Andrei Baklanov said that the use of drinking water as a weapon by the Turkish occupation to impose its conditions on the population in the Governorate of Hasakah is no longer an issue that concerns Syria alone, but rather one of the issues that are classified as a crime against humanity.

Baklanov said that attempts to use water in the region as one of the tools of aggression against Syria have resulted in negative and harmful effects on the lives of the population, especially in the current circumstances and the spread of the Corona epidemic in the region.

Baklanov stressed that these practices are totally inconsistent with rules of the United Nations and the UN Security Council resolutions.

In turn, the senior researcher in the Department of Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Orientalism of the Russian Academy of Sciences Boris Dolgov considered that the practices of the Turkish occupation forces and their terrorist groups in the Governorate of Hasakah and their continued cutting off the water of its residents put the lives and health of the citizens of about a million people in danger.

Dolgov stressed that the Syrian government has the right and even the duty to address the United Nations and other international organizations concerned with humanitarian laws to preserve the life and health of civilian citizens and to deter the Turkish practice in support of illegal armed groups that commit various crimes against Syrians, including cutting drinking water of children.

O. al-Mohammad