SCC calls upon Canadian government to push for International Red Cross to intervene in Homs city urgently Homs city in Syria is getting annihilated, while the world watches Homs, the third largest governorate in Syria and themost diverse, is the city where people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds have lived peacefully together for hundreds of years. Homs is the only city in Syria where the regime had not been able to extinguish the
flame of the peaceful uprising, not even for one day in the past 11 months, despite using military checkpoints to completely divide city. Nearly all work and business has stopped in Homs, which continues to suffer from a suffocating siege, while the regime exploits and uses the few loyalist neighbourhoods to shell neighbourhoods whose residents have joined the uprising.
Today, Assad forces are carrying out one of the most violent and barbaric campaigns against Homs, one that has been going on for 16 days in a row. This campaign is causing a miserable humanitarian condition, with power,water, and communication services outages in most areas. Additionally, there is a severe shortage of medical and food supplies, especially bread. The Assad army has used all types of weapons, like rocket launchers, artillery, and tanks, in its violent attack. There are also reports of the possibility of using chemical weapons in this campaign, as it had done in its campaign in Rastan not too long ago, where Assad forces used planes to spray pesticides and other agricultural chemicals. What makes this possibility more likely is the migration of families from loyalist neighbourhoods that are close to targeted neighbourhoods like Karm al-Zeitoun and Waar, for example. Similar activity was noticed when the town of Talkalakh was attacked a while back, where all loyalist families migrated out of town two days before the attacktook place. Using these types of materials, i.e., chemicals, is not unlikely by a regime that is in trying to carry out genocid against an entire city to control it. In order to preserve those who are loyal to it, the regime had possibly leaked information about using chemical weapons, as a warning and to give them time to leave areas that can be affected. We have seen that migration indeed took place when families from loyalist neighbourhoods were seen leaving and abandoning their homes and going back to their home villages. This happened during last week, during
a curfew, when no one else could move around, let alone leave the city, except for the loyalist families.
Additionally, it was reported that Assad forces and troops received masks that protect against chemical weapons. Furthermore, Abdelsalam Ahmad Abdelrazzak, a former captain in chemical warfare management, who defected recently from the Assad army, stated that Assad forces are using poisonous internationally-banned gases under the supervision of Iranian and Russian experts, who were dictating when and where these gases should be used. In his statement, he revealed that the Assad army had used a gas that causes nerve paralysis to make invasion of the city of Homs easier. He also explained that the Assad army has in its possession toxic substances, a small amount of which can result in genocide. [ Ссылка ]
(here is a video of the statement by captain Abdelsalam Ahmad Abdelrazzak)
We, along with Syrian National Council SNC, on behalf of our families in Homs, appeal to the Canadian government, besides Arab and International communities, all human rights organizations, to push for urgent and immediate intervention to the International Red Cross to stop the imminent genocide looming above Homs, and we hold them all accountable and responsible for the outcome, in case the Assad regime uses these weapons.
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