In Parts of Syria, Lack of Assistance ‘Is a Catastrophe’ - New York Times
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| Lynsey Addario for The New York Times |
SAWRAN, Syria — The United States and other international
donors are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on humanitarian aid for
Syrians afflicted by the civil war. But here in the rebel-controlled north,
where the deprivation is most acute, that money has bought mostly anger and
resentment: the vast majority of aid is going to territory controlled by
President Bashar al-Assad, and the small amount reaching opposition-held areas
is all but invisible.
Rebels argue that the
humanitarian assistance is in effect helping Mr. Assad survive the war of
attrition. “Aid is a weapon,” said Omar Baylasani, a rebel commander from
Idlib, speaking during a visit to a Turkish border town. “Food supply is the
winning card in the hands of the regime.”
The biggest obstacle blocking aid
from rebel-held areas is the United Nations requirement
that its relief agencies follow Mr. Assad’s rules — which limit access to
opposition territory — as long as the international assembly recognizes his
government….
That means that while internally
displaced Syrians living in government-controlled areas are cared for in United
Nations-run camps, with standard shelter and basic utilities, the many who have
fled into opposition territory are plagued by shortages of food, fuel, blankets
and medicine.
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The revolutionary estimated that about 60% population is based
on the rebel control area, most of the aid only way into he criminal Assad
control area, because of UN has to worked with this criminal regime whose lost
its legitimacy, the hypocrisy is this criminal break all sort of law every single day for committing
atrocity, UN dutifully help this criminal monopolising international aid for
Syrian people for his own political survive! Good on you UN how smart
you are!? The Aid is for Syrian people not criminal assad and his regime who lost its legitimacy! Absolutely amazing UN faithful performance its bolt hole duty to criminal Assad instead
Syrian people! Why ARE UN have to ask criminal for accessing suffering people? Or why are you lawful to criminal assad while he lost legitimacy? Amazing again! UN must be a nun and runs a nunnery!
