Dan Wilkofsky and Ammar Hamou, VICE News: Assad's Army Just Captured a Key Breadbasket — And It Means 600,000 Syrians Could Starve
More than half a million people in rebel-held suburbs to the east of Damascus are facing imminent starvation, after the Syrian army broke through rebel lines last week, separating people from the agricultural land that was the area's breadbasket. The people of East Ghouta have survived a three-year siege thanks to produce grown in fields near their homes — and now that they have lost that territory they face a grim fate, similar to other besieged, and starving, parts of Syria.
President Bashar al-Assad's army and its allies capitalized on infighting between rebel groups in East Ghouta to break through their weakened defensive lines, on May 18. Advancing forces captured six villages and hundreds of acres of farmland in the southern sector of East Ghouta that had been the suburbs' lifeline, a local opposition official said.
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WNU Editor: This conflict .... after 5 years .... is now entering a very dark phase. What was unthinkable at the start of the revolution .... starving large sections of the country .... has now become government/war policy. And it should be noted that the rebels are doing exactly the same thing in other parts of the country.
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Now this I dont agree on; should the goverment feed the rebels or what are you writing about??
No Hans .... I am not recommending anything .... I am not qualified in that department. I am just making an observation that the Syrian war is now entering an even darker phase that no one thought possible when the Arab Spring started 5 years ago.
As we discovered, after the Liz Sly's et al photoshopped "starving civillians" in rebel held areas of Allepo and Hom's, and then "real journalists" went in,
The Syrian Government has been both allowing the flow of food, fuel, electricity and medical supplies into the rebel areas, but has also been providing salaries, food and medicine for these areas, ( out of pocket),
But the "rebels" have been using food, fuel, medical supplies and electricity to not only "control" the populations in these areas, but also to generate profits.
When the Syrian Government sought International Aid to mitigate the 2008 drought, to prevent what's happened, the West laughed. A few million dead and starving Syrians would help collapse Syria.
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