Show your support, end the siege!

Children, elderly people, and anyone who cannot obtain food, are dying of starvation and the Assad regime's brutal bombardment in Moadamiyet al Sham (a.k.a. Moadamiyeh). Not only that, but the regime has tormented and tortured the people using the disgusting tactic of claiming that they will allow food aid into the besieged neighbourhood if they fly the regime flag, only to give them token amounts. This is one of many such disgraceful atrocities: http://stopthesiege.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/a-few-brave-hearts/

Please show your support and solidarity with the starving people, and brave hunger-striker Qusai Zakarya, here, while there is still time.

Break the siege campaign on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SyriaBreakSiege?fref=ts

YouTube: 

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1GebUuayH2PlYdla36noPw?feature=watch

Solidarity with Qusai Zakarya, the hunger-striker: https://www.facebook.com/qusaihungerstrike?fref=ts

Qusai's blog: http://stopthesiege.wordpress.com/

A great victory for the Syrian Revolution in Ghouta

Today, there was a glorious victory, al-Hamdulillah. The revolutionaries' elite units have come close to breaking the siege of Ghouta (in Damascus), saving the starving people there! Thousands were previously starving to death as a result of the crippling siege there (in addition, the chemical massacre in August was in Ghouta). 8000 elite fighters led the way, launching a counterattack from the east and west, according to the discourse circulating on Twitter. They laid waste to huge numbers of Assad's scum. TAKBIR!

The true soldiers of Syria can be seen here in this video, staging a victory parade.

The discourse and information about the successful campaign can be found here, on Twitter.

Ben Allinson-Davies is a worker for Radio Free Syria, blogger, and film-maker, who spent over a week in Syria with the people there, including rebel forces. His documentary on the revolution can be found here.

A message to Western media outlets...

A message to Western media from heroic media activist and Radio Free Syria manager Qusai Zakarya in Moadamiya, #Damascusprovince concerning the evacuation of some civilians from the town yesterday. As has become the norm, media, including the BBC and the Huffington Post, reported only the Assad regime's monstrously distorted version of events, without bothering to consult its victims, whose voices are silenced by both the regime and Western media, both mainstream and 'alternative' (sic).

"Moadamiya, #Damascus province, 30-10-2013: I would like to update you about the situation in Moadamiya. Over 100 men were detained yesterday during the evacuation. Today news has come out that these men are being forces into serving in the Syrian army and to join Assad's thugs, commonly called shabeeha. Certainly, these men would prefer death over such a fate. It's also important to remember that during the first evacuation a few weeks ago, Assad forces detained several children and some still remain in custody, their fates unknown to their families. Although many journalists have written about the Moadamiya story, no one has focused on the fate of the evacuated civilians and the danger they are in right now."

Introduction by Radio Free Syria's Ruth, message via Qusai Zakarya in Moadamiya, Damascus province.

URGENT, PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE: Press release regarding the starvation of Modamiyeh al-Sham

Children are dying of starvation and under bombardment in Moadamiyet al Sham (a.k.a. Moadamiyeh). The Shaam News Network (S.N.N), Radio Free Syria and other organisations and individuals are set to issue a joint press release to international media and humanitarian organisations calling for the immediate lifting of the siege on Moadamiyet al Sham and the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to the town.
Please join us and include your name and/or the name of your organisation/group as a co-signatory. People are dying.

There is no time to waste. 

This is the body of the press release to be issued, which is also being issued in Arabic (this will be posted soon).

For Immediate Release: September 28, 2013

Assad Regime Starving City’s Children To Death Daily

The humanitarian crisis of the century is emerging across Syria, particularly in the city of Moadamiyet al Sham where civilians, including children, are being to death as part of a conscious regime policy, dying on a daily basis.
On a daily basis, activists and citizen journalists are publishing videos and pictures of children starving to death in the city of Moadamiyet al Sham as the world endlessly debates the merits of removing chemical weapons from the Assad regime. As media organizations dedicated to revealing the truth about the Syrian revolution as well as giving a voice to the people living in Syria, we are collectively launching an awareness and action campaign to combat the horrific and deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the city.

For over 300 days now, the city’s residents have had no electricity because regime forces disconnected it as collective punishment for peaceful protests. For over 270 days for the same reason, residents have had no running water in their homes and no food or medicine has entered the city due to the ongoing siege by Assad’s forces. Furthermore, the Assad regime has systematically bombarded the city on a daily basis with warplanes, heavy artillery, tanks, rockets, mortar shells and chemical weapons, escalating the crisis to a situation of unimaginable horror.

Our organizations have created this alliance to provide credible information on the number of children and other residents of Moadamiyet al Shaam who have starved to death as well as to demand that the international community take action to break this inhuman siege before yet another entire city is wiped out by the Assad regime. Please await another press statement in the upcoming days detailing the documented cases of starvation, as well as providing action items to address the crisis. It is true that media organizations typically play the role of disseminating information rather than providing humanitarian relief, but we are convinced that this is the duty of every member of the human race regardless of religion, race, gender or ethnicity.

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