(Zaman Al Wasl)- As Coronavirus sweeps the world, the eyes of Syrians living in Europe remain fixed on the massacres, destructions, arrests and torture committed by Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Samer Abdel Rahman, 36, Syrian refugee based in France, says the killer virus is merciful in comparison to Assad. “Death no longer scares us.. In Assad’s prisons, I screamed for God and for death whenever their whips fell on my body. We wanted it and it did not come. Today, we do not want it, but if it comes it will be merciful, without suffering,’ he added.
Syrian abroad are speaking little of coronavirus, but their minds are always ready to project what they saw and lived because of the regime, calling on the world to help them, to pressure the authorities to release the detained and the kidnapped, and to open the doors for human rights and health organizations to save them.
More than 2,040,000 people have now been confirmed with the coronavirus globally, and while at least 505,000 people have recovered from COVID-19, more than 14,000 have died, according to data from the World Meters.
Syrian Peace Action Center (SPACE) in Norway has called for an open online workshop, with doctors, experts and civil society activists, to help Syria prepare and respond to the Coronavirus.
France-based Syrian doctor Tayseer Taymour said, in first statement after recovering from COVID-19, that calls to lift sanctions against Assad's regime to enable them responding to the pandemic is an another crime against Syrians.
The Assad regime has killed dozens of doctors and paramedics and bombed hospitals, health facilities and ambulances.
Taymour added that any assistance to the regime to fight the pandemic must be based on a number of conditions, namely the release of detainees, especially medical personnel, and a cease fire, especially on health facilities; otherwise it will only be support for the killing machine in Syria.
The nine-year-old war has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands and forced 13 million people from their homes, half of whom have left their shattered homeland.
Zaman Al Wasl
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