ALEPPO (Zaman Al Wasl)- Workers of Civil Defense in rebel-held Aleppo city carried out a sit-in on Sunday, protesting salaries’ delay by Opposition’s Interim Government.
Civil Defense ‘soldiers’, mostly university students and human rights advocates, have played a bravery role in rescuing hundreds of people of Syria's commercial capital as barrel bombs reduced entire buildings to ruins.
“Opposition’s officials used to use devious statements that glorify Civil Defense efforts but when it comes to the real responsibility we demand of them, we see no thing,” one the workers said.
Last June, the Interim Government promised to allocate salaries to the families of Civil Defense martyrs in Aleppo, an opposition senior official told Zaman al-Wasl.
The official said the government
is in process of issuing a new law to guarantee the rights of workers in the
civilian and military institutions and its affiliates.
Until now, no law has been approved.
More than 191,000 people killed in Syria's three-year conflict and over 9 million forced to flee their homes.
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