Number of people from areas under-siege in Homs, who surrendered themselves to Syrian regime reached to 500, according to activists.
Most of them wounded and were forced to get out of the city with their arms, as the regime forces demanded them to do so to agree on sorting out their security and health situation, activist Omar Tillawi said to Zaman Alwasl. He detailed that those arms were no more than Kalashnikov, guns, bullet store and RBJ machineguns.
Tillawi held leaders inside the sieged areas, and to the members of Coalition the responsibility for that painful situation in Homs which forces fighters to surrender, he thought that their irresponsible way in dealing with the situation helped in increasing corruption, unfairness and misjudgment.
Tillawi said painfully: “Hunger for a long time leads people into a status of instability and lose of control” he thought that “Breaking bones strategy” the military council used in Homs led rebels and the Free Syrian Army fighters to surrender themselves to Shbiha and regime forces.
The activist wondered about the fate of the money and charitable fund that have been collected for 2 years to help Homs, he wanted to know where the rockets, tanks, canons, and other arms had gone. He raised his voice painfully asking about money collected two years ago from all Muslims around the world to help people of Homs.
Omar Tillawi summarized the situation in Homs saying: “18 neighborhoods have been occupied by the regime forces and Shabiha for more than two years, with other 13 neighborhoods under siege, nearly a million people were displaced in that period, there are thousands of detainees in regime’s prisons who are brutally tortured, and hundreds of females detained and are victims of torture and rape. Shabiha raid Sunni houses and shops and stole everything, while hundreds of house, building, shops and mosques are destroyed”
the activist added that even neighborhoods which were not under siege suffered a lot from Shabiha, "the situation in those neighborhoods is difficult as well, because they are controlled by the pro-regime forces and Shabiha, which make people under continuous threat of being arrested or humiliated, or getting their money or cars stolen" he explained. He mentioned that there was many cases of detaining women and children to release them for big amount of money. In the end Omar Tillawi mentioned the unprecedented increase in cost of living, as prices of food, vegetables and fruits, besides cost of water, electricity and telephone calls, if found, have madly increased. He thinks that what has been done in Homs aiming to displace people to “racially and religiously” cleanse the city and empty it from its Muslim people. Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed
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