Government besieges neighborhoods in Syria’s Aleppo to humiliate Syrians, AANES
Government besieges neighborhoods in Syria’s Aleppo to humiliate Syrians, AANES
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – The siege imposed on the neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiya in Aleppo governorate, north Syria, by the government was an authoritarian method followed by the government to bring the Syrians to their knees, Loqman Ahmi, spokesman of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), said yesterday.
Since early April, the government forces and the checkpoints affiliated with them have intensified measures at entrances of the besieged neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiya in Aleppo city.
“Siege and starving people is an authoritarian methods followed by the Syrian government against the Syrian people in order to humiliate them and force them to abandon their political projects and their will over an autonomy,” Ahmi told North Press.
The Syrian government has previously followed the same policy in other Syrian areas and neighborhoods nearby Damascus city forcing people to eat animals and trees’ leaves in order to humiliate them, according the AANES’ spokesman.
“Starvation policy will not work in both Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiya neighborhoods because the residents there have their own administrative and political project on which they base to counter such authoritarian methods,” he added.
He noted, “The authority in Damascus wants to convey a message that it can punish everyone who does not accept this authority.”
Instead, the government has to follow the policy of dialogue with the political parties and powers in Syria in order to reach political solutions and end this situation, according to Ahmi.
The AANES is working to break the imposed siege by all means, but efforts made have not get anywhere.
Though the 4th Armored Division of the government forces is imposing taxes on the entry of the foodstuff to the neighborhoods, the AANES currently is working to deliver basics to the besieged residents there.