SNN | #Syria | Idlib | Jabal Al-Zawiya: A humanitarian Appeal from the People | Syria
The Syrian Revolution _ Jabal Al Zawiyah Jabal Al Zawiyah is a mountain range that includes around 40 villages between the valleys and mountains. In the name of Allah, the most merciful, the most gracious: We the people of Jabal Al Zawiyah, Idlib province, appeal to every person with a conscience. It is hard for us to bare the pain and suffering that we are going through since 7 months ago, through the army forces, gangs of thugs, and militias and mercenaries of Nasrallah and Iran and more recently the Iraqi brigade of Bader and Al Sadder Troops. Now we are in winter and with the geographical nature of Jabal Al Zawiyah the seriousness of the injustice, oppression, and the invasion of our houses and properties has became harsher. Even cows and sheep were a victim to this tyrant. Along with these situations, cold is an added factor to our suffering. Now desiel fuel is out of reach completely although each military tank contains 3000 liters of diesel oil, which is the equivalent of the consumption of diesel oil from 6 families in the whole winter season. And if we look around the massacres in the country we can surely estimate how much the fuel oil is being monopolized for the sake of killing. We can’t also disregard the fact that food supply is almost cut-off and also monopolized by the regime’s thugs and supporting merchants. We have been suffering for months and in the most powerful and extreme conditions from violation, arrests, killing, and the disruption of communications and electicity in all forms. The people who are left in the villages either packed their things and left or wandered between the mountains. People who haven’t been killed and murdered yet are detained by the intellegence system, and when the prison buildings get overloaded, the detainees are taken to the branches of security forces in Aleppo and Damascus, specifically to the branch 271 that is being run by the criminal Ali Mamlouk, where the branch in Kafarnabel and surrounding towns were filled in extreme situations of torture and the inhuman conduct. The hospitals are not equipped - instead they are being used as military barracks. There is no treatment for the citizens and no one dares to go because maybe they wont come back. As it is, dozens of crimes took place in hospitals where wounded people were arrested and their bodies weren’t handed to their parents unless they sign on a paper that their children died because of terrorist attacks. And this situation is known to people around the world and if a wounded person miraculously is taken into a hospita,l then he’s kicked out immediately ignoring their excruciating pain and suffering. While we live under these circumstances, we call on all parties concerned with human rights to consider the region of Jabal Al Zawiyah as a disaster area including the villages that are spread around the harsh terrain. Under the flight of air forces and under heavy gunshots, even if it’s somehow calm during the day,the firing starts at sunset until early morning with all kinds of weapons. We mean the heavy weapons that this regime uses, even animals, and birds aren’t excluded from the shooting. The Syrian army troops, thugs, and mercenaries from Iran and Nasrallah, are destroying our villages and our property in an immoral and inhuman way. If some of the honorable soldiers defected because of the horrible crimes the regime is demanding them to commit, then they will be chased by air forces and by all means even by firing missiles randomly on every moving object they see in front of them - without differentiating between women, young men, elderly, and children. For how long are people going to cry out for help to every conscience and relief committee? For how long we are going to bleed and everyone in the world is watching? For how long we are going to sleep with open wounds? We are speaking to the whole world and we know that the Arab conscience isn’t going to respond, not even their feelings will respond to our pain. We are speaking to everyone, every race, every religion. We are speaking to humanity with its human conscience. If the human conscience is dead, then the whole world is going to die with every person in it. We speak to the human being who is HUMAN and doesn’t belong to this race or that religion. We SCREAM in the face of tyrants and we will continue to. This is our choice, the choice of freedom, free people, free will and dignity. God willing we are going to stay the course, whatever the situations are, this is the road chosen by the great Syian people and will never lose our direction, no matter how harsh the situation. We are a people who said rightfully what they want. Oh free world, we are talking to you, listen to our human cry. Stand with the righteous. We the people of Jabal AL Zawiyah in Idlib province, and Idlib Countryside, announce that our country is afflicted and in distress. We have one question; can your conscience tolerate the killing? 22nd November 2011




