Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in the Syrian capital Damascus (January 2014). UN Photo
Starving Syrians Forced To Eat Cats And Dogs To Survive, Claims New Report -- Daily Mail
* At least 128 have died of malnutrition in Damascus district of Yarmouk
* Amnesty International report comes ahead of third anniversary of uprising
* Up to 20,000 people still trapped in district where conditions are desperate
Syrian forces are starving civilians to death, it was claimed yesterday, with residents forced to eat cats and dogs to survive.
‘Rampant malnutrition’ has claimed at least 128 residents of the under-siege Yarmouk district of the capital Damascus since last July a new report by Amnesty International says. Some have been poisoned after eating cats or dogs or inedible plants.
The 40-page report - Squeezing the life out of Yarmouk: War crimes against besieged civilians, published ahead of the third anniversary of the Syria uprising (15 March) - highlights the deaths of nearly 200 people in Yarmouk between last July and 22 February this year.
Read more ....
More News On Amnesty International's Declaration That Syria is Committing War Crimes In Yarmouk Siege
Syria: Yarmouk under siege - a horror story of war crimes, starvation and death -- Amnesty International
Syrian forces committing war crimes in Yarmouk siege: Amnesty -- Reuters
Syria: Assad forces 'using starvation as weapon of war' -- BBC
Amnesty says Syria's rulers starved hundreds to death in Damascus blockade -- FOX News
Syria army using starvation as 'weapon of war': Amnesty -- AFP
Amnesty International says Syria guilty of war crimes for food blockade -- Washington Times
Syria: clashes hamper UN agency's effort to reach Palestinians in Yarmouk camp -- UN News Centre
5 comments:
The Amnesty International Report refers to a "horror story of war crimes, starvation and death."
-- what is its basis?
from the Report:
"This report draws on information provided to Amnesty International by six current residents of Yarmouk and 12 former residents, now either internally displaced within Syria or living as refugees abroad and who remain in contact sporadically, and with great difficulty, with family members and others who remain in Yarmouk. Amnesty International’s interviews with all of these individuals have been conducted via the internet."
Sure. We know that the US is supporting the anti-Syria forces and that the US has a well-established propaganda campaign which promotes lies about Syria, e.g. the "Syria chemical weapons attack" which didn't happen -- there is no intel basis for it.
Syria, until the US-supported anti-Syria war, has always been a strong supporter of and a provider for the Palestine refugees who were driven out of Palestine by the Zionists.
So this story being heavily promoted by the usual suspects -- Reuters, Fox, etc. -- is highly suspect.
I have become just as skeptical as you are Don Bacon when it comes to news coverage from Syria. You cannot trust anyone.
Anti-Syria forces supported by the US and its ally Saudi Arabia are causing the problems in Yarmouk.
albawaba news, Mar 9
The return of militants from the rebel groups al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to Yarmouk camp in Damascus has brought back tension and "chaos," a Palestine Liberation Organization official said on Saturday.
PLO Executive Committee member in charge of refugees affairs Zakariyya al-Agha said in a statement on Saturday that the return of the rebel armed groups was in violation of an agreement reached with PLO factions had brought the besieged refugee camp back to chaos and conflict.
http://www.albawaba.com/news/syria-damascus-yarmouk-559759
Thanks for the link Don Bacon. I did read in other news reports the role that rebel groups were/are playing in Yarmouk. I choose not to post them because I was focusing on the Amnesty International report. In hindsight this was a mistake .... I should have posted them. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=679651
Another link to review with regards to this Amnesty report...
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/comparison-of-amnesty-coverage-of-syria.html?m=1
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