Translation by Yusra Ahmed
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Some rebel factions are imposing duties and fees for letting vehicles of medicine entering the besieged northern countryside of Homs province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.
An activist, who spoke on condition oof anonymity, said a group of some rebel commanders had recently formed kind of “mafia” that controls the road leading to the embattled countryside of Homs and prevents anything from entering without paying fees and bribes.
"They even cooperate with fighters loyal to the Syrian regime and share profits with them," he added.
The activist detailed that medications and drugs are bought from some storage in Homs, and bribes are paid to regime forces and “Shabiha” to allow them reaching to the countryside, where they fall in hands of the revolutionary “mafias” which force additional duties to let them deliver medicine under arms intimidation or threat of confiscation of medicine.
The activist mentioned that the cost of one vehicle of medicine reaches to about $73 thousand, but when the vehicle arrives to Talbisah, part of the shipment gets stolen by the crescent storage, which disburses medicine free of charge according to a prescription from the hospital.
The activist appealed to supporters of those revolutionary formation involved in those shameful acts to pressurise them to stop stealing medicine or forcing fees to let vehicles entering the besieged areas, as those acts defame the revolution and distort its reputation.
In Talbisah and Rastan, almost 300 hundred civilians are under severe siege by the regime forces, amid complete ignorance of the United Nations or the international community to the suffering of people which put in particular life of thousands of children an elderly under risk.
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Some rebel factions are imposing duties and fees for letting vehicles of medicine entering the besieged northern countryside of Homs province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.
An activist, who spoke on condition oof anonymity, said a group of some rebel commanders had recently formed kind of “mafia” that controls the road leading to the embattled countryside of Homs and prevents anything from entering without paying fees and bribes.
"They even cooperate with fighters loyal to the Syrian regime and share profits with them," he added.
The activist detailed that medications and drugs are bought from some storage in Homs, and bribes are paid to regime forces and “Shabiha” to allow them reaching to the countryside, where they fall in hands of the revolutionary “mafias” which force additional duties to let them deliver medicine under arms intimidation or threat of confiscation of medicine.
The activist mentioned that the cost of one vehicle of medicine reaches to about $73 thousand, but when the vehicle arrives to Talbisah, part of the shipment gets stolen by the crescent storage, which disburses medicine free of charge according to a prescription from the hospital.
The activist appealed to supporters of those revolutionary formation involved in those shameful acts to pressurise them to stop stealing medicine or forcing fees to let vehicles entering the besieged areas, as those acts defame the revolution and distort its reputation.
In Talbisah and Rastan, almost 300 hundred civilians are under severe siege by the regime forces, amid complete ignorance of the United Nations or the international community to the suffering of people which put in particular life of thousands of children an elderly under risk.
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