By Zaman staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed
DAMASCUS (Zaman Al Wasl)- The severe siege on Eastern Ghouta in Damascus has reached to unbearable levels, and disturbance on many level. As a reaction, people sometimes demonstrated against monopoly, while others attacked food storages and robbed them.
All that led the Judicial Council in Ghouta to issue a warning statement to those so called “blood traders”, who monopolize foods and products.
In the beginning of the statement the council confessed of the crazy elevation of prices after closing all ways to provide foods to the region.
The statement was issued last Sunday, concentrated on 3 main points: the first one was warning “blood traders” who monopolize products in their stores, and giving them only a week to distribute their products in market at affordable prices similar to those were before the siege.
Secondly was to encourage people to report anyone suspected of keeping product away from people to deal with him accordingly.
In the end, the statement considered anyone monopolizes product as a helper to regime in killing people and he would be punished accordingly.
In the same day of issuing the statement, 12 members of the judicial council suffered from food poisoning, it was discovered later that reason was eating food contaminated with insecticide.
Rumors about poisoning Abo Mohammed al-Fateh , the leader of the Islamic Union, spread but activists denied.
In a relevant content, it was reported that some families had no option but to give their children Apricot’s seeds to feed them, which led to cyanide's poisoning, because of the high level of this article in seeds, which cause poisoning if eaten in high amount, and sometime could lead to death as a result of affecting breath and heart.
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