{"id":45663,"date":"2020-08-22T20:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=45663"},"modified":"2020-08-22T20:11:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:11:04","slug":"%e2%80%8eignatius-avram-ii-to-un-secretary-general-over-one-million-syrians-denied-their-right-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/45663\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200eIgnatius Avram II to UN Secretary-General: Over one million Syrians denied their right to live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON, USA (North Press) \u2013 His holiness Patriarch of Antioch and the rest of the East, the Syriac Orthodox Mar Ignatius Avram II send a message on Saturday to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet and EU Council President Charles Michel criticizing Turkey\u2019s water cut from people of Hasakah in northeastern Syria and holding the international community responsible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Humanitarian catastrophe&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe write to you with deep concern about the current humanitarian catastrophe that is taking place in Hasakah, northeast Syria as over one million Syrians are denied their basic human rights, namely their right to live.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Turkish-backed groups deliberately cut off water<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The message accused the Turkish-backed Syrian opposition armed groups of water cut from the city of Hasakah amid high temperatures and in light of the spread of coronavirus in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor more than 10 days, the armed factions supported by the Turkish occupation have deliberately cut off water from the population thus subjecting them, especially children, elderly and vulnerable people, to thirst and critical health conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis comes at a time when the spread of COVID19 virus is taking its toll on the entire country,\u201d he said. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Barbaric act<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The message described the act as barbaric and criticized the silence of the international community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUsing water as a weapon \u2013 and this is not for the first time \u2013 is a barbaric act. Yet, there has been no response from the international community to this atrocity despite the constant appeal of the people of the region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf water blockade continues, it would only be appropriate to characterize this inhumane act as a crime against humanity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>UN is responsible<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The message concluded with appeal to the UN organizations to deal with the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile we hold the international community responsible for the consequences of this unethical act, we urge the United Nations, through the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the European Union, to address immediately this calamity and to provide water and help for the suffering people of Hasakah and northeast Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">(Reporting by Hadeel Oueiss)<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, USA (North Press) \u2013 His holiness Patriarch of Antioch and the rest of the East, the Syriac Orthodox Mar Ignatius Avram II send a message on Saturday to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet and EU Council President Charles Michel criticizing Turkey\u2019s water cut from people of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[187,44,188,108],"class_list":["post-45663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-syria","tag-ignatius-avram","tag-syria","tag-syrians","tag-un"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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