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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