By Shaam News Network.
Civilians scramble to help victims of barrel bombing in Ghouta. (Photo: ibtimes.com)
Eighty five peaceful Syrian groups launched the “Planet Syria” campaign, to discuss with the world to extend the hand of relief to Syria to stop the pool of blood that is being filled everyday in Syria through the use of barrels bombs. The 85 groups expressed that their two demands are the end of barrel bombs and encouraging this through a political solution.
AFP reported the groups’ press statement that includes, according to AFP, the Syrian Network for Human Rights, and the Violations Documentation Centre in Syria, and Women’s, Assyrian, Kurdish, media, and rights organisations, and six other groups that did not want their names known for security reasons.
The statement clarified that signatory groups are located in areas under the control of a number of parties “from Dera’a and Al-Ghouta [outside Damascus] in the south to Aleppo and Al-Hasakah in the north”, and is “working with local groups on issues like education, livelihood, and civil protection”, lastly “documenting human rights violations and engaging in creating peace”, representing 17.000 Syrians.
The statement expressed to journalists that there are “two steps that the international community need to implement in order to create peace. The first is stopping use of barrels bombs, and even if a no-fly zone needs to be enforced, the second is to support Syrian peace talks that include all parties, without exception or exclusion”.
The statement sees a connection between the “continued dropping of barrel bombs in Syria, and the appearance of Da’ish and its success”, using one of the many names for the Islamic State group. Hayid Hayid [neutrality, neutrality], one of the organizations in the campaign, said that “all barrel bombs increase ISIS’ power, and all support extremists in Syria receive is directly connected with serious human rights violations by the Al-Asad regime”.
The campaign statement also repeated “we call our friends all over the world to support us in this campaign to stop the violence and extremism that has come out of control. In order for us to realize this goal, we need for the bombs of death to stop, and for serious peace talks to to start. We need to realize these goals, together … now.”
The statement also said that pacifism is shared in “Planet Syria” campaign organization, saying that
“we feel great frustration in ourselves for lacking a minimum of support from our friends all over the world. The idea is not complicated at all. The absolute majority of Syrians do not want a dictatorship, nor violence.
Ala Ramadan, one of the organisers, clarified the name of “Planet Syria”-campaign [we named it this] because “we feel sometimes as if we are on a different planet!”, and “because our peaceful revolution changed into a worsening international war, with at least 80 countries fueling it.”
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Source: http://www.shaam.org/الأخبار/أخبار-سورية/كوكب-سوريا-حملة-جديدة-لناشطين-سوريين-لإيقاف-البراميل-المتفجرة.html (30 April 2015).
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